Tags: blog, film, action, 2026
Author: KickingK
Date: Saturday October 10th, 2026
Just watch some Miami Vice
Writer/Director David Robert Mitchell previously made It Follows, which I absolutely loved. So I thought this might have a few interesting ideas beyond what the uninspiring trailer implied.
If I were to be kind to the film, I could argue that it's portrayal of suburban, middle-class America depicts a kind of lazy, isolated individualism that is utterly incapable of dealing with a local crisis that requires an organised, collective response.
That is putting it incredibly kindly. A more accurate description is that this is a film where a bunch of dumb, annoying idiots do dumb, annoying things for ninety minutes and then it ends. If you've ever watched a film and found yourself exclaiming "What are you doing?" as one of the characters does something obviously counter-productive then know that this is a film almost entirely composed of those moments.
One day I'm going to get a dinosaur movie where the dinosaurs aren't just dumb, relentless killing machines and the film has something interesting to say. Today is not that day.
