Jessica Alba (de)fights in the void
There’s no need to wonder why Jessica Alba got herself into this mess called Fight back. He is certainly not the only movie star and influential personality to have taken a detour to Netflix to produce a “homemade” genre film, often even in co-production. For example, there was Jennifer Lopez The mother in 2023, or even Charlize Theron with The Old Guard in 2020. In their image, Jessica Alba has her own heroine: Parker.
In Fight backadded this June 21st on Netflix, Parker is a member of the Special Forces. Having returned to her hometown after learning of her father’s death, she inherits the family bar. She will meet up with old relatives and find out more about the sudden death of her father…
Fight back it’s a revenge film, and Jessica Alba strives to embody this elite soldier who, with her lethal skills, will take justice into her own hands and bring some order back to this somewhat lost corner of the United States. Several action sequences set the stage for the film, which on this point is quite generous with a variety of attackers, settings and pseudo-stunts.
In fact, if these sequences are numerous, they are numerous anyway extremely generic, with minimal choreography and moderation in the depiction of violence so as not to shock. Parker, we believe, is written as a brutal fighterbut in the image the sensation of slowness and the “sharpness” of the shots in a laborious staging destroy any suspense.
Minimum minimum
The lack of Fight back it is global: an intense mediocrity It is required at all levels. The special effects are bad, especially the explosions, the plot is simplistic to the point of ridiculousness, and the characters are only developed so that this plot is practically fleshed out. Jessica Alba may do everything she can to fight her battles and show some emotion, but the creative desert that surrounds her has the effect of a dazzling sleeping pill.
Basically, this movie that was billed as a Rambo female was probably nourished by a real ambition, the trace of which remains with numerous themes hinted at but not developed: family, American politics, racism or even arms trafficking… Rather than enriching and anchoring the film , this addresses contemporary issues has the opposite effect, underlining the great emptiness. Fight back it is therefore so impersonal and empty that not even the talented Jessica Alba can save this action film from sinking.
Source: Cine Serie
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