Denzel Washington & Ryan Reynolds came together to attempt to give us the best movie of the year so far (so….far). In a nutshell, Denzel is a big time wanted felon who just happens to walk into the hands of the law, and Reynolds is stuck babysitting him. That’s the jist of it. Nothing too complicated, right? Of course there’s always a twist, and I won’t ruin it, but put it this way, the CIA is involved (they’re always involved).

The problem that I had with this movie and why I didn’t find myself to enjoy it as much as a lot of other people have, was because of this reason: Denzel, we’ve seen you in too many roles when you play the bad guy trying to be the good guy. Too many times have we seen you try to work your intelligence game to weasel your way in and out of situations (We didn’t forget Inside Man). Don’t get me wrong, these kinds of roles have worked for him in the past, but now it’s getting old man. We understand that he was robbed of an Oscar for Malcolm X, and he had Training Day & Man on Fire & Out of Time, and so on and so on, but I think it’s time, because he seems to be getting the same roles and seemingly playing the same character. SEEMINGLY (just in case you missed that).

Ryan Reynolds was like the Boy Scout who wanted to move up in the ranks, and here he is trying to keep a fugitive alive, not knowing that he’s been inadvertently involved in a covert operation hatched by the CIA (my bad). Wasn’t he just The Green Lantern? Deadpool? Okay…I couldn’t take him all that serious in this movie to be honest. Him and action movies doesn’t seem natural to me, well at least not ones that don’t require a green screen. Am I being too harsh? I don’t think so, because I really wanted to enjoy this movie, but seeing so many others with similar twists (the entire Jason Bourne trilogy, The Kingdom, Body of Lies, Shooter, ETC.), it just seemed like a whatever movie. There was action from start to finish, but it didn’t quite do enough to cover the predictable nature of the movie.

I thought it was going to be more than it was, and I’m kind of upset that it didn’t live up to the hype, but that’s why Hollywood is smart. They promote the crap out of a movie, and then when it comes out, and people spend money on something they know was a recycled idea, then they still get their money made back anyways. It’s a business thing, but as far as entertainment goes, this would have suited better on my TV with Rogers on Demand or TMN. That’s just me though. I gave it a 7 out of 10, because it still entertained when it had to, and as Chantel (my date for the night) said, “It only got that high because Denzel saved it,” which was very true. SO, for now, this is my opinion, this is my review

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