Digging Into Features.

That is a searching about ability of the cinema industry to amaze. It will about projects that in development and end with a film that have already been released, but I do not intend to write wide about it.

Rambo originates from a novel, and I wouldn’t be critical if it were a faithful adaptation of the initial material. I can’t accept a current filming without Sylvester Stallone in a lead role, because the flick series became an individuality, and David Morrell wasn’t against it. I’m skeptical toward a prequel with an actor who has no resemblance to Sly and a weak director who made characterless action films whose trailers I couldn’t even finish watching, while writers created a one contemporary comic book film. No change comes by that Sly Stallone became an executive producer of this, because he appeared when the project was already in development. It makes that his name is nominal here.

The considered leads for projecting Highlander remake have always been preposterous choices of men who don’t know acting and can’t be credible in these roles. It did stay this way when the development launched.

Chad Stahelski, who could easily become hysterical by that people don’t like much action in his long John Wick movie, can amaze with swordfights, but not in a screenplay that was handed to men with infamous filmographies. The basic work was developed by a person who wrote a movie that is incoherent from a title The Cold Light of Day. If anyone will explain me that after fourteen years, I’ll buy you a whiskey. And it was a single work of that person. All the rest three scriptmakers had blockbuster junk that I didn’t risk to watch, including John Wick 4. I saw only The November Man of all that. It was convoluted, and the one likeable thing was the filming in Montenegro. Highlander remake isn’t what can bring me to excitement. Why do anticipate the story that is already staged forty years ago and it’s impeccable? The presence of the Highlander original script creator Gregory Widen as “executive producer” makes me to believe that he was paid to increase a prestige of the feature.

NB. It does that way, as not so far ago brilliant David Zucker confessed that he had that offer for Naked Gun remake, which the director didn’t watch.

However, his initial script wasn’t this ideal. Widen had that immortals could have children. It worsens about the price in the conception.

Stahelski created a reputation of a filmmaker who made box-office profits from John Wick movies. It permitted him to put conditions. This person for his ambitious vision could get 160 million dollars from Lionsgate that held this project for years, while the director wanted 20 million dollars more. The Canadian company had box-office failures lately, and has become careful by that (though many of these projects hadn’t much involvement of their money). As that can see, it cut with Mel Gibson’s vision of his duology of The Resurrection of the Christ, which won’t have speaking in ancient languages, as it was in The Passion of the Christ, and “rejuvenating” of Jim Caviezel has been solved by hiring an unknown Finnish actor. Lionsgate didn’t accept the extra financial requirement from Stahelski, and Highlander remake went to Amazon who weren’t against to share that quantity. If think from a commercial point of view, Highlander was always a niche thing, and I depicted about that. I would consider as madness to allocate even 160 million dollars.

Jim Caviezel became involved in an independent production called Dark Horse, a biographical flick about Jair Bolsonaro. The released teaser makes to realize that a real story will add fiction by seeing a little bit of action including shooting and a jeep ramming gates. Certainly, I do not trust the scriptwriters with TV series works that don’t characterize as likeable. The filmmakers’ goal is noble because it releases in the year of presidential election in Brazil in which bet is a country’s fate. Additionally, their version of “Survivor” is revolutionarily advanced than the original piece by that black woman who should be ashamed of herself and go recluse in the deepest forests for her monotonous “single ladies”. Anyway, I am not a lover of stories about real people.

I can’t write a review of Protector for a decent reason that led in a couple of performers of the cast, while I’ll offer a brief expression out of respect to the director. Adrian Grunberg used his talent in a wrong movie. But even the action isn’t always great. Sometimes it does without asking about consequences. There were beautiful ideas, but it made to whine that they were used in a pointless movie. A forming mistake was with the lead actress who couldn’t handle with a complex role when she is not in an action. Besides, director Adrian Grunberg had a legendary privilege and honor to make a Rambo film, while he used pieces from First Blood, and I am about the flick. He has own Colonel Trautman who appears unexpectedly and talks about preparing “body bags” and his want to take his soldier home. But a performer of colonel from Protector has no character and no class of the monumental Richard Crenna. That additionally combines with dialogs for five cents that want to impress by using swears, as in one of them sheriff says, “On whose authority?” and colonel responds, “On the authority of go fuck yourself.” The main worst is the anticlimax ending, which turns a lot of happened into senseless.