Tags: blog, film, action, 2025
Author: KickingK
Date: Sunday September 07th, 2025
And a re-al hero...
Edith Meanie is pulled back to do one last job after her ex-boyfriend messes with the mob.
It’s not an original set up but the execution is superb. Your immersion in the film rests entirely on the shoulders of Samara Weaving and Karl Glusman, their relationship being the thing that the entire film revolves around. And they pull it off superbly. John is an entirely believable fuck up who, infuriatingly, takes the wrong choice in every single moment, but never-the-less is also believably endearing. And Meanie is an entirely believable smart-but-not-educated ex-con trying to go straight who can’t ignore her affections and sense of duty.
The film builds it’s plots, characters and sub-plots convincingly and entertainingly, as it crescendoes to the big heist and final car chase and then…
…kind of just fizzles out.
That final car chase, the escape from the scene of the crime, is a bit limp. It’s not bad but the chase at the start of the film is a lot better. It’s just very underwhelming considering the excitement the film built up in the lead up to it.
Worse still, the film decides to throw in some crime drama plot twists that suddenly gets really, really dark. Pitch black in fact. But the film hasn’t earned that tonal shift because it’s put all its effort into a big car chase inside a casino and jokes about running someone over in a Tesla. It just happens out of nowhere, without the character work to make it believable.
So in the end we end up with a film that neither works as a car chase action movie nor as a complex crime drama of loyalty and betrayal. The two things end up tripping each other up.
