The actor leads the cast of this thriller with the world of cybersex as a backdrop.
Surely the millennials will never know how to understand Millennium, the only film producer, mostly action, that remains (reinventing itself every little bit, a bit like Ruíz Mateos, its holding) and that in times where products like this umpteenth The protector (which in the original is not because The Enforcer was here Harry The Enforcer, the third of Dirty Harry) die alone among hundreds of films on the platforms claims the not millennial pleasure of going to an exhibition hall and tasting a thriller that makes its greatest virtue of its lack of originality.
We have seen hundreds of times the story of the bad guy who redeems himself by shooting and beating him by taking on one last mission that goes beyond his strict criminal code. Hundreds of times that equals the same number of classic noir film gems from six decades ago or less. The hired killer, the professional cold as an iceberg, who suddenly, in the not yet glimpsed twilight of his career, decides to defend a girl, an exploited girl, a prostitute or someone who shouldn’t and who wakes up, besides of his fury, his humanity.
The Barracuda (Cuda for non-existent friends) that Antonio Banderas embodies, with an unusual calm rhythm, almost Zen and absolutely Melvillian (by Jean-Pierre Melville), in The protector (The Enforcer) he knows that everything will be against him when he gets personally involved (nothing cool, except when he eliminates enemies) in a crusade that has more to save himself than the girl he protects in the film. Nothing we haven’t seen before in the Jason Statham of Safe or from the saga Transporter, or even the statham thief of Parker, based on the Richard Stark/Donald E. Westlake novels (and the Richard Hughes film is heavily indebted to the dry style of Stark’s novels). Or in Luc Besson’s Jean Reno Léon and professional, the same as Kevin Costner in Three days to kill another Besson production directed in video clip mode by McG.
It is in that déjà vu that this thriller set in sunny Miami (actually Thessaloniki, Greece) dominated by darkness wins over you as a viewer. It beats you because the script is not a mere succession of action sequences (which also, and I smelled for them), but rather It puts you in that wonderful cinematographic position of empathizing with a guy who is not recommended because he kills people worse than him. Much of this merit, Antonio Banderas aside and the effectively to-the-point narrative of director Richard Hughes, resides in the script. The same W. Peter Iliff does not sound to the millennials who conceive action cinema as an accelerated tik tok, or who think that the ultimate thriller is The Rock, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds in Red alert. We owe Iliff the plot and the script of they call him Bodhi (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990), and like there, here we have a protagonist unable to reconcile his work, his obligation, with his human feelings. Someone who finds himself in the position of not being happy doing what he is expected to do. Iliff places Cuda on the other side of the law (he is not a policeman like the one played by Keanu Reeves… who was happy being a criminal), but his troubles are the same: to fix his disastrous family/marital life by becoming the unexpected guardian angel of a woman who weeks before would not even have considered more than something expendable.
The protector (The Enforcer) It also forces you as a viewer to make a decision: ignore a series B that claims series B seen in its natural habitat, a cinema, or take a lazy look one night on a platform or on a channel like Cuatro between cuts advertising and program promotions. Let everyone do what they want, it would be missing, but, dear millennials and those allergic to Millennium and the like, as The Korgis sang in 1980 Everybody’s got to learn sometimes.
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DATA SHEET
Address: Richard Hughes Distribution: Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, 2 Chainz, Mojean Aria, Zolee Griggs, Natalie Burn Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 9–12-2022 Gender: Action Script: W.Peter Iliff Duration: 90 minutes
Synopsis: A Miami mob hitman (Antonio Banderas) must sacrifice everything to save a young woman who has met the wrong person: the head of the criminal organization he works for, a femme fatale involved in the shady world of cybersex. . The protagonist will be forced to use contacts and other less orthodox resources to save the girl and solve her problems.
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