Luc Besson was always an exception. A positive exception. An exception to the French cinema. As if he's French by accident, if you look at all other French movies. Whichever actor he touches, that becomes an angel. But falls back immediately after...
Here we've got just the normal rule. A Reno without Besson, that in the end is like anyone else without Besson.
Every detail takes at least 3 seconds, for everyone to understand. Here, there is the influence of the Russian cinema: make the movie so slow, so that even a Russian can understand it. A movie that could be cut in half covering the same story.
Sometimes, I understand the producers. They are given an actor and ordered to make a movie for him. Just to have the guy in. It happened with Resident Evil and Ultraviolet, where anyone else could be instead of Jovovic. It happened with Tomb Raider and Angelina. It happened with Aeon Flux and Theron. It almost happened to Mikkelsen, with Polar and Arctic, but he's mostly used to market his country than himself.
Here we've got a Reno that tries to copy Mikkelsen and a France that tries to copy Denmark, by remembering and waving the flag of their evershrinking. almost extinct Quebecoises. Like what Russians try to do in Serbia, but on a higher budget.
The story is dull and predictable. Characters are fade, linear. There is no mystery, everything can be foreseen. You can fall sleep after the first 15 minutes, wake up 15 minutes before the film ends and clearly tell what happened meanwhile. They could have used a woman in the female role. Side stories are fragmented, sometimes not connected to the main one. Reno fails to fake a French English really badly, mostly because his English is already too good.
Too bad for the money. A movie that you will forget the next day.
Here we've got just the normal rule. A Reno without Besson, that in the end is like anyone else without Besson.
Every detail takes at least 3 seconds, for everyone to understand. Here, there is the influence of the Russian cinema: make the movie so slow, so that even a Russian can understand it. A movie that could be cut in half covering the same story.
Sometimes, I understand the producers. They are given an actor and ordered to make a movie for him. Just to have the guy in. It happened with Resident Evil and Ultraviolet, where anyone else could be instead of Jovovic. It happened with Tomb Raider and Angelina. It happened with Aeon Flux and Theron. It almost happened to Mikkelsen, with Polar and Arctic, but he's mostly used to market his country than himself.
Here we've got a Reno that tries to copy Mikkelsen and a France that tries to copy Denmark, by remembering and waving the flag of their evershrinking. almost extinct Quebecoises. Like what Russians try to do in Serbia, but on a higher budget.
The story is dull and predictable. Characters are fade, linear. There is no mystery, everything can be foreseen. You can fall sleep after the first 15 minutes, wake up 15 minutes before the film ends and clearly tell what happened meanwhile. They could have used a woman in the female role. Side stories are fragmented, sometimes not connected to the main one. Reno fails to fake a French English really badly, mostly because his English is already too good.
Too bad for the money. A movie that you will forget the next day.