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What if hancock was played by rocky well you'd kind of get the new semi-superhero amazon movie samaritan. It's got Sylvester Stallone and a killer musical score, but what about the rest of it? A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle 20 years ago may in fact, still be around javen wan na walton stars as sam this boy who lives in granite city. It's a place kind of like gotham. That'S continuously going downhill with crime and corruption.
Now he's obsessed with the story and the mythology of the city, a superhero named samaritan, who had many years before had fought the supervillain brother called nemesis now with both of them they supposedly died in that battle. Sam, though, is convinced that samaritan is alive and is constantly then searching for the one that he thinks is his hero. This is a very dark comic feel to it, and mainly i mean dark in the sense of lack of lighting. There are a lot of clouds and rains that overshadow the city, giving the presentation a very cold feeling which then helped by a bluish tint to the entire production. Sylvester stallone plays joe a neighbor of sam's who helps sam out in a situation which then leads to a slight friendship.
Now stallone looks to be struggling a bit through this i mean, especially when he has to engage in some of the action and seriously i mean. I can't blame him, because the dude is like 76 years old and he does move about pretty good, given that age. Now, because this is a superhero story, there needs to be a villain and because we're told in the very opening sequence that samaritan and nemesis both died in their battle. A new baddie named Cyrus hopes to rise up and finish what he believes. Nemesis was trying to accomplish the motivations for the villain, and his henchmen are their vague.
At best i mean pretty much he's a bad guy who wants to do bad things and he wants to be the biggest and best bad guy around i mean i guess. That'S all we need right well, Cyrus is played by pilu ozbach and i'm pretty sure that i mispronounced that. But you may recognize him as euron greyjoy from game of thrones. Now he plays up the menacing persona as much as he can, but because he's such a stranger to us, it's hard to feel any sort of fear or anxiety as a result of his threats. Now, i thought it was pretty funny in the way that they costumed him in this because at points it looks like he stole bane's jacket from The Dark Knight rises and then put a mask on him.
Now i had mentioned at the very beginning that this is a bit like Hancock. Now, that's that movie with will smith, where he's kind of the reluctant superhero because of some crap in his past. I mean that's kind of the assumption that we go on with this. That, if we are to believe sam's theory, that joe is samaritan he's hiding in plain sight for just a bunch of years because of the crap that went down between him and his brother, the movie's an hour and 40 minutes and despite that relatively short, run time. Portions of this drag and make it feel longer than it is, and there's a lot of back and forth between cyrus his cronies, and sam.
It does help to establish an antagonistic relationship, but it also feels a little repetitive and unnecessary, because there's not much background given on Cyrus, I mean literally, he's just a bad guy who eventually picks on a kid in an effort to pull samaritan out of hiding Cyrus And his goons as antics, i think, they're laughable at times because they drive around like big time gangsters, but all they oversee is a slump. So i mean it's like being a king of the trash heap but wow. They are pretty proud of that accomplishment. Now for a superhero story, this is fairly grounded when it comes to powers. I mean, this helps to minimize also the need for a lot of special effects, even though some are employed in this.
When there are fights, sequences and bodies need to be tossed through the air, it looks fairly convincing, but then, because of the pg-13 rating, when there are gunshots and broken bodies, blood is almost non-existent. I mean there's no actual gore shone making this fairly tame. Despite there being a ton of violence, there are a couple of sequences that involve fire, and i think these are actually pretty decent in their effectiveness. I mean it does look like the actors are surrounded by all the flames, especially with the air bending from the heat, but then in other sequences that are involving the fire, the effects i mean they are clearly faked, there's also a scene where a character is de-aged And it kind of made my eye twitch, i mean, while it wasn't terrible, it was noticeably unnatural, which then became bothersome now. Luckily, it wasn't on-screen for too long, and it was only utilized at one time now with the action.
The first two-thirds of this movie had way less action than i was anticipating. I mean there's still some present, but the movie chooses to focus more on dialogue than anything, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. But in the final act, we do get a pretty huge fight sequence, that's a lot of fun, and it's filled with adrenaline I mean, even though there are a lot of quick cuts to the action the scene did provide some crazy moves involving some objects. That made me wince when they were utilized. The thing, though, that stood out to me the most in this was the musical score.
I mean, it was awesome to listen to, and it built a driving momentum for the action it really amped up. The intensity of some of the sequences made me way more invested in the craziness than the scenes probably deserved. So overall samaritan draws upon the familiar storyline of a reluctant hero and the one who believes in him the characters outside of the main two protagonists: they're ill-defined with motivations that are vague and uninteresting. The action has moments of intense fun and most of the special effects in this are pretty convincing. There's an obviousness to the story.
Arcs and the narrative contains sequences that feel repetitive without progressing the story forward. The score is the best part of the entire production, creating tension, excitement, and energy that far exceeds the emotional level of a lot of the film it's great to see Stallone still taking on these physically demanding roles, but his age is beginning to visibly slow him down. So it'll be an interesting watch to just see what else he does in the future: there's no sex or nudity, some profanity, and a ton of violence. I give samaritan two and a half out of five couches. So what are you binging right now anything good?
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