An anonymous film for Jean Reno
French film star, Jean Reno is also an international film star, very popular throughout the world and ready to make a series of films in all their diversity to maintain this status. Not always very attentive to the quality of the projects on which he collaborates, we have seen him in recent years both in excellent ones From 5 Blood by Spike Lee, The Honest Bronx by Olivier Marchal and the passable During the flight by F. Gary Gray only in completely superfluous productions. It is in this second category that we classify The goalkeeper, an American action film released on VOD in the United States and France in 2020, and in some countries in theaters. For a catastrophic result…
A member of the Marine Corps returns home after experiencing traumatic events. Having become the concierge of a building in New York, she will find herself dealing with mercenaries determined to get their hands on precious works of art.
Ruby pink action hero
The goalkeeper has as its main actress the Australian actress Ruby Rose, in the role of a former marine who will have to face robbers interested in works of art. But as initially announced Variety In September 2017, it was the best known and most recognized actress Katie Holmes who played the role of Alexandra “Ali” Gorski. After taking over from her in February 2019, Ruby Rose then comes into play The goalkeeper its competences set out in the share register, including its performance in xXx: Reactivated AND John Wick 2.
And given the actress’s appearance in the guise and character of a concierge, Katie Holmes can undoubtedly be considered happy to have abandoned the project…
Jean Reno as mercenary leader
Naturally, what is of interest is not the doorman but the ex-marine, a real killing machine who will oppose the mercenaries who stormed the building and will protect its inhabitants. These mercenaries are led by the Frenchman Victor Dubois, played by Jean Reno. This leads then The goalkeeper the presence and darkness that could make him a notable antagonist or anti-hero in numerous major blockbusters. Here, unfortunately, despite demonstrating diligence, his performance remains largely anecdotal.
The fault undoubtedly lies with a film that as a whole is considered extremely poor by critics, offering no originality either in its writing – The Hollywood journalist considering for example that it is a plagiarism – missed – of crystal trapnor in the staging of the action sequences and fight choreographies, which demonstrate a total lack of inspiration…
A huge commercial failure
The Doorman is released in the United States and France directly on VOD. It is also shown in cinemas in only eight countries: Hungary, Portugal, South Africa, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Korea and Vietnam. In all these territories gets terrible scores for a total of $307,873 collected… Important film market where Jean Reno is well known, Russia represents 1/3 of the total, with 100,389 dollars at the box office.
Rarely, critical and viewer ratings are the same on Rotten Tomatoes: 24%. It is therefore unanimous among the various audiences that The goalkeeper it is not judged to be done or to be done. However, directed by the Japanese Ryūhei Kitamura, to whom we owe in particular Godzilla: Final Wars and fun The Midnight Meat Train with Bradley Cooper, The goalkeeper could have taken advantage of its director’s talent to stand out a bit from the fray of sloppy action B-listers languishing on the DTV circuit. It’s sadly a failure, with a sauce that never takes off and a film that relies only on the clichés and clichés of the action subgenre home invasion.
Source: Cine Serie
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