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The “Twarma Film” may not be a real thing, but somehow the writer-director Shane Black still managed to get into it. His previous film, 2018 PredatorDirty franchise that clicks Some of us likedconsidered as a catastrophic bust; Before that, he did Good guys (2016), a charmingly wandering neo-nuar comedy, which, it seems, now everyone loves, but almost no one bothered to see. These two failures were apparently enough to cancel any good will that he generated as a result of success in a billion dollars Iron Man 3 In 2013. So, now Black has returned with the new comedy Mark Walberg – action movie. Play dirtywhich is produced exclusively on Prime Video and has what seems to be a marketing budget of $ 2; Almost no one I know heard about it.
Black scripts for Deadly weapon Movies, The last briskoutAnd Long kiss of good night He made him a rich man on the same day, and also turned him into a poster child for the brutal excess of blockbuster blockbusters of the 1980s and the 90s. AND Play dirty This is a return to a joking trick and a funny theater action movie, which first of all established his reputation, although it seems that in the game in the same benefit with the type of film that no longer exists; This is something from an alternative universe, where an ultravio -year -old American studio action movie has become more crazy and crazy until we turned out to be crazy like Play dirtyField
I have been founded (I do not know) on the novels of Donald Westlake's Parker, borrowing the elements of history from different issues, although it does not have an almost sociopathic territory that determined the work of Westley. Rather, this is a complex and gloomy thoughtful, the film in which Mark Walberg gives someone back a piece of their ear after he is knocked down. The film begins with a robbery with nuts with hippodrome, which goes into the download itself, with cars and assholes and horses (and dying) to the left and right among the shooting and chaos.
When this dirty work ends with an unexpected double cross, which leads to the death of his entire team, the professional thief Parker (Walberg) is in search of his money and revenge and discovers (several corpses later) in the middle of something much larger and more difficult, associated with the recently discovered wealth of the Spanish ship. This is an underwater treasure found off the coast of an unnamed Latin American country and costs about a billion dollars, is shown in the United Nations, and a group of people wants to steal it. And so, there are pursuit of trucks and car chases, as well as in club shootings, as well as several people falling from the building, as well as an epic trip and approximately 197 shots of Mark Walberg, using the body of a poor bastard as a shield, since it is connected to bullet openings. This is a smaller story, but rather a theatrical idea of various types of bloodshed. At some point, Mark Kuban accidentally appears as himself and quickly shot. (Spoiler.)
But is that good? Play dirty It wears its stupidity boldly, proudly, almost aggressively. It dares to find something remotely plausible, realistic or even insightful. You either get to its wavelength and travel with it, or shout. I mainly traveled with this. As a director, Black has a calm way with fun and plot. He knows that he cannot live too much on any element, partly because the story (or “history”) will work only if it is ahead of our ability to think about it. Want to know how our hero experienced one particularly bloody and explosive scratch? Sorry, look quickly – he is – it turned out to be different. Even throwing visual effects and false locations of the film (especially the scenes installed in New York) feel the play with its energy to “fuck you”. Walberg also seems to be a game. When he gets older, these sharp eyebrows of his gaze are even more caricature than before. You cannot say whether he is knocked out or evil, which is not a bad emotional space for this character, which largely exists to charge forward and carry the impulse of an absurd plot of Black.
However, I look Play dirty At home on the TV screen, I did not laugh very much, although I found it funny. Rather, I kind of plunged into a half -moody mood of pleasant acceptance. His stupidity was interesting, but his stupidity also freed me from the need to think about it. It was there, and I did not turn it off. Roger Ebert talked about active watching the film compared to passive watching the video. He talked about formats, but in many respects dichotomy cinematography and at home is similar. Can a film like Play dirty Is there a wide theater release today?
I would like it to be, but I'm not so sure. Observation of this with a large group of people would probably be a completely different experience. I can't help but remember the experience new Naked pistol Earlier this year with the audience. Two paintings are more similar than you think. (In any case, Naked pistol can be a little more believable than Play dirty) Although one exists mainly for gag delivery, and the other, in order to provide an adrenaline surge, in both cases the audience energy carries them along its stupid trajectories. If at any moment you begin to perceive any film too seriously, the illusion is completely lost. At the same time, however, we seemed to have forgotten how to laugh with films at present. Play dirty It can make you feel the flour of nostalgia for a particular type of movement, but it also reminds you why they basically do not exist anymore.
