Kurka Day is an illegitimate son of a “groundhog” and “adrenaline”
How about getting stuck in a temporary loop today ? I don’t know how you are, but I would have to go to work every day, cook my own dinner in an empty apartment, simultaneously thinking about the meaning of life and raising prices on dumplings. True, I don’t need a temporary loop specially, and you too. In our case, everything sounds not very interesting, but Joe Karnakhan had a more creative idea on this subject.
The idea to cross the films “Surri Day” with Mührei and “Adrenaline” with the stitem was not such a trivial task. In theory, the secret of the dish was simple. You take a baking sheet, lay out the idea with a temporary loop on it, wrap a brutal man in it, season this business with the burning of dwarfs, family problems, the theories of the conspiracy, and bring all this butter into the oven with a timer for 1 hour 40 minutes. But often problems may arise during cooking.
Bill Murray and Jason Steetem as possible ingredients are not suitable. In the first content of the sand, all the permissible hygiene norms have long passed, and the second for its role would clearly ask half the budget of the film. And why is it needed, because not another part of the “mechanic” we remove.
Therefore, Joe Karnakhan invited Frank Grillo to the main role, which had previously been marked only by second -plan roles. The director himself can be known to you from the films “Kozyan Acers” and “Team-a”. Carnakhan’s chip in his talent to make films on the old patterns of the 80s, but so that they understand them a wide audience. The only problem is that he shot the last film in 2014, which could not but affect the result.
At the very first minutes, the main character of Roy Pasneter is trying to swell his head with a machete, but he is not particularly surprised at this. Roy is lazy dodging, dressing, getting dodging again, drinking his coffee, after which they try to shoot him from a combat helicopter, and at the end they throw an explosion from the 4th floor. Later, the rest of the mercenaries can optionally burn it alive, roll off the truck wheels or even a corny shot. And you say that you have a heavy Monday.
The only problem is that Roy was stuck in the conditional eternal Monday, where every morning begins with an attempt on his head. And he does not have a way out of a temporary loop. Each new attempt ends with the death of the swarm at noon or earlier, and he is not ridiculous from this. It remains only to sleep, the benefit of the eternal “groundhog Day” to get alcoholism does not really allow. Roy only knows that everything is somehow connected with his wife (Naomi Waits), her particularly secret project, which she developed for a special severe and terrible military (Mel Gibson).
The beginning of the film sets a very good dynamics. You are immediately thrown to the 100th attempt by the swarm to survive, due to which they instantly catch attention. At the same time, the sunbeam simultaneously broadcasts what is happening, which allows you to miss a huge piece of the introductory part, where the hero usually first encounters a temporary loop and tries to understand what happened. In a more measured film, the introductory can and not in the action.
The ordered voice is not particularly quoted by critics, but with its help you can well maintain the dynamics. Another thing is that this technique in the film is not figurative enough and gives phrases in the forehead, to the detriment of artistic value. Compare 2 phrases:
2) “Sometimes my inner devastation reached the peak. Therefore, in order not to kill myself with a screwdriver from Fixprice, I poured this void with a second -rate booze “
In some cases, ordering Davinci’s Gold Casino review was not needed at all, because it was possible to convey the mood of the scene with the emotions of the characters, lighting, color and sounds.
If the whole film was presented in a similar vein, then there would be no problems. But the film has a big problem with dynamics. Talk breaks are necessary in any action movie. They give you the opportunity to take a break, do not allow you to work out to the action. But when the action is interrupted for tens of minutes by stories from the past (flashbacks), then you have to forget about dynamics. And this causes as many as 2 questions.
2) Karnakhan, why do you need flashbacks if you first put the viewer on the needle of action and drive for the first ten minutes?
Flashbacks will always pull the viewer out of the stream, and Joe clearly knows about it. Moreover, he gives the background in no detail in detail, as if retelling it from the words of another person. For example, they tell you that the swarm was loosening and running around the women, but for this there are always prerequisites, from upbringing, to relationships that no one invested in. Partially, because of this, the film in the middle sags significantly, and the last 20 minutes are too puncture and do not look like a climax, since the swarm is too often in the last location with a conditional boss, because it turns into a passage yard. I am silent about the ending at all, but I will tell you about it in the bonus part of the review.
Frank Grillo in the role of Roy is good, and he keeps himself in great shape. “Boy” on shots from the film is only 55 years old, if that. For Frank, a game in such a film is an achievement. I did not watch the videos and films with him, but he looks like a dude from your court, who found the meaning of life in sports and acting. This is his driving force and this is visible on the screen.
It can be seen that a person is invested in the role and this bribes, but there is a feeling that something is missing. At first I thought that the problem is in the facial expressions of Frank, and he doesn’t get charisma yet, but I think that the main problem is in the script. The fact is that the film does not use the entire potential of the concept with a temporary loop. Karnakhan did not show how Roy experiments with the search for shelters and methods for eliminating mercenaries. There is no adaptation process to new hazard levels. The character follows the director’s indication, but he does not live in the film. It looks more like NPC in a video game, as it does not show a special initiative between acts.
The problem of fathers, children and relationships is poorly disclosed, despite the fact that it occupies a significant stir of film. The only one who worries about his son and performs some actions for this is a swarm, but only his emotions are not enough to disclose the whole drama. Karnakhan added this storyline as an emotional center of the film, but you are more worried about Roy, and for his family do not care.
The rest of the characters do not want to brag about something outstanding. Mel Gibson in the film Rare, but where it is – he is good. Experience is affected. Naomi Watts does not really understand how to play Roy’s wife, although she tries and this is visible, but there is no need to talk about the mercenaries. They are not textured, their personalities are virtually absent, although their presentation would be enough from the strength of a couple of minutes, as was done in the “Suicide Squad”. They are reduced to simple functions. Here we have a radnek with a hook, here is a dwarf with an explosive, but there a woman waves a katana.
In theory, the film should be a comedy action movie, but a comedic action movie is mixed with a drama in proportions 1 to 1. At the same time, each part burns too much each other, due to which one cannot fully enjoy the drama or comedy.
But there is something to praise the film. When the action begins, it is difficult to break away from the film. The swarm is funny everything that moves from gatling, and what does not move will be shifted and killed with special cynicism. It was not possible to break into the military base the first time? Do not care, try to fly through the entire parking in front of her by car. I can’t defeat a woman with a katana? Okay, I will learn to wave this katana.
In another film, these actions will seem frank idiocy, but in this film they will be absolutely adequate and logical. The film has enough gags and jokes of varying degrees of thickness, due to which you do not treat the film too seriously. Moreover, for the budget of some $ 45,000,000, the lion’s often gobbled up the cast, the film looks and sounds cool.
The film from the point of view of the script is not modern and, with a cursory examination, it looks like a craft that Netflix stamps stamps, stupidly to score the library. Although this is not so. Moreover, if not for one of the two endings, the film would be perceived much better. Sensations like an eating Irisk “Golden Key”. It seems to be delicious, but it lay in a chest of drawers for 5 years, and cellulose on the teeth creaks. You can watch the movie, but the back of expectation and then you can catch the thrill from watching. Assessment at KinoPoisk and IMDB at 6.9 points I consider completely justified. I have everything. All.
Bonus to the review:
1) In some centuries, our translators tried. In the original, the name of the film sounds like “Boss LEVEL”, T.e. “Boss level” or “last level”. But in the film there really is no fighting with the boss, but Mel Gibson for the role of the last barrier does not roll at all. Therefore, the translation of “Curke Day”, fatty to “Surka Day” – good. Especially taking into account the ending.
2) Video games were not brought to the film, at all. Only a slot machine room resembles them, and stylized credits. We were deceived again, we diverge.
3) Oh yes. Ending. We have two of them and the second went out on the Hulu service. The first ending ends with nothing. There is too much space for speculation, since you do not know what exactly happened to the hero.
The second one ends with the fact that Roy Paul is breaking out of the loop, but again wakes up in his apartment a second before he is trying to shorten his neck with a machete. Roy opens his eyes, says “Piece of Cake”, which is translated from Basurmansky approximately how “just spit”, and the credits begin on this.
From the point of view of logic, such an ending is much better. You understand much better what happened to the swarm, you know that he will most likely cope with his experience and you know that he solved all his problems for previous iterations in a temporary loop. Such an ending gives a much clearer picture to the viewer and certainly better correlates with the name of the film – “The Last Level”. For Roy, this attempt is really the last, this is his last level, the last jerk before the finish to his happiness. Why choose the first ending as the main one – it is not clear.
And you know what’s the funniest? In an interview Time out Moscow Karnakhan admitted that the second ending is more specific, he personally likes more. I have only one question left. Yes, what the hell?!