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A French soldier struggling with PTSD and opiates is transferred to Paris as a Sentinelle - an anti-terrorist patrol. Then her sister gets raped by a powerful Russian, and she walks the road of vengeance.
The soldier is Bond girl Olga Kurylenko. She's got good expressive intensity but she's runway model skinny so unconvincing as a fighter. Fortunately her stunt doubles do the heavy lifting, plus she's wearing military body armor during many of the fights and that thickens her up.
Den asked me to take a look and see if I had any takes on it. I don't. It's an okay film but I can't quite milk an article out of it. The filmmakers had a good sense of location and knew that Olga's majestic cheekbones should be featured prominently with every opportunity. The action is okay, not great but not bad. The story, well, I just told it to you. It doesn't go much deeper than that. There's no peripheral character development.
So no. I have no take. Maybe if I sleep on it, something will emerge. I was hoping for some angle into CAC (a French stunt school) but there's not that much there. It's rather flat overall, another rape revenge film. There's a distracting lesbian one night stand, and a random nekkid female officer headed to the showers (kinda French that way). There's a bathroom fight, a mansion fight, and some military fire fights. Maybe I missed something.
No sword fights. Not DOOM recommended except for Yetis that like Euro-actioners and or DOOMers into prominent cheekboned Bond girls.
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No warehouse fight? Forget it then.
I do like my Euro-Actioners, looked this one over, but went for Revenger instead. I chose wisely.
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03-10-2021, 12:21 AM
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Yeah, Revenger is far more entertaining. Sentinelle just felt hackneyed. But that was last night. What about tonight?
Olga. Don't Yetis like Olga?
I like Olga. I've always liked Olga. And this was all about Olga. But it just needed more substance somewhere - in the fights, the story, the lesbian love scene, something needed more.
I thought I might have something with Agel Aurelia, Olga's stunt double. But that feels like a reach.
I get why Den asked for something. It's tracking well on Netflix for some reason. I don't know why.
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Olga is why. They have been trying to make an action hero out of her for a while. I like Olga just fine, but she is too waif-ish to ascend the the heights of Eva Green. She doesn't exude anger like Drummer.
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03-10-2021, 02:48 PM
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(03-10-2021, 09:23 AM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: She doesn't exude anger like Drummer.
Nor is she solid, like Bobbie Draper.
Olga needs a non-action vehicle. She can act well enough and she's easy on the eyes. She was better as a Bond girl.
We're killing the story with Den. I'm glad of it.
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