They Will Kill You — 2/5
Zazie Beetz will star in hundreds of hours of middling entertainment before they figure out what to do with her. She's great! She's a very physical actress! This movie is a great big nothing! Though it's a type of movie I'm very attracted to, and keep watching, though I can't quite name that many successful movies in the genre. "Fight or Flight" (bad), "Ready or Not" (fine), "Bullet Train" (fine). "Bad Times at the El Royale" (bad). What do you call these movies? Highly stylized and highly art directed action-comedies with bright colors and colorful personalities. Is this just the downstream of my love for 'The Running Man'? Are they just "video game movies"? Your job: get from point A to point B, and kill all these Street Fighter-ass people along the way. It all sounds fun, and so I keep looking to them for the ultimate expression of passive entertainment, fun fight scenes, fun deaths, but they all just end up being boring because they're based in cool character names rather than interesting characters. If it is indeed all just downstream from 'The Running Man', then I'd like to remind executives that that movie is more than its superficials.
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