![]() ![]() Also, Stallone’s hair looks especially weird. One could easily accuse Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista of turning up to fire some guns, punch some goons and collect their pay cheques but, if were being. Luckily, as youre probably aware, John Wick did not. The ideological tension is never quite resolved, but this dynamic offers something to contemplate as the characters work through an entirely predictable tournament of combat. Poor fight scenes would have left us with four hours of Gymkata. In a weird way, the film is targeted both at the economically dispossessed people who voted for Trump because of anger about what the Chinese were supposedly doing to the American economy and at the Chinese themselves. Click the red X in the upper-right corner or Escape button on your keyboard twice at any time to leave immediately. And yet, fascinatingly, at the same time, the key that ignites the plot is that well-meaning rich girl Daya gets kidnapped in Mansfield, Ohio, where she had hoped to get her phone-manufacturer daddy to open a new factory in the area, thus helping the rust-belt citizens get back on their feet and improve the image of Chinese brands. The most telling thing about this film is the way it tries (as did Escape Plan 2) to grow its appeal with Asian audiences by featuring non-Caucasian stars, such as skilled screen fighter Jin Zhang (best known in the west for The Grandmaster) and rising actor/pinup Harry Shum Jr (from Crazy Rich Asians). ![]()
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