hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with a
brand new movie review and today we're discussing the new action thriller by the name of those who
want me dead which will be coming to theaters as well as on hbo max this friday may 14th now
i got the chance to check it out early courtesy of warner brothers i'm really excited to let you all
know what i thought about this new action thriller starring the one the only angelina jolie and i'm
gonna let you all know if you should be excited for it all in this spoiler-free review before we
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it let's discuss it all in the comment section let me know your pros your cons your thoughts on the
performances the direction this is labeled as an action thriller were you thrilled were you on the
edge of your seat watching this film let's discuss it in the comments below so going into this movie
i felt like hbo and warner brothers it wasn't like as heavily marketed as some of the other
simultaneously movies at the theater as well as streaming but neither here nor there i was
excited for it i love angelina jolie i love this cast john berthold you have nicholas holt you have
uh aidan gillen and then also you have the writer and director of this film being taylor sheridan
sicario one two hella high water wind river the man's fantastic i was looking forward to it so
what did i think about the film starting off with my positives i want to kick things off with the
man behind the camera taylor sheridan who again do yourself a favor watch sicario watch hella high
water watch when river he is such a fantastic writer but he's still kind of establishing
himself as a director he kind of reminds me in the same veins the same way i look at a
aaron sorkin who is a fantastic writer his own right but he's also kind of newer in the
direction uh side of things right and each one of these fantastic writers are still still learning
things in regards to becoming a director and i think taylor sheridan based on wind river and now
based on this he's building that that credibility he's building those sensibilities to really make
him to a really fascinating combo of a fantastic writer and a fantastic director and in this film
him as the director he's doing a really good job he does a great job at directing his actors this
is a little bit of a bigger film in regards to the scope compared to something like ren river but the
thing that i really love about what he does in this film and all his other films that he's uh
written and a couple other films he's directed all his movies have a sense of realism all his
characters feel very believable all his films have this sense of i'm not the world's biggest western
but i've seen my fair share of western films they all have a sense of western vibes i think this
his sensibility reminds me like every film i see of his it reminds me like i'm in the same
universe as no country from old man but then when you see like that film compared to like a sicario
all his films have a sense of grittiness and a sense of brutality to it so i just think he has
a great sensibility to him as a writer but also now establishing himself as a director
and i was pretty impressed by him as a director so transition and i mentioned that he did a good job
in directing his actors i mean it doesn't take a lot to direct these fantastic actors but you still
have to have someone to helm and bring everything together but angie and jolie she's fantastic man
she's uh as as you all probably already know she is one of the best actresses working in hollywood
in my personal opinion and she's been fantastic in her career not all her movies are great but i
always think that she brings something to the table she always has a believable performance
and as hannah in this movie as someone that is considered a smoke jumper essentially a
firefighter in montana she's very believable she has this this particular past where you know she
has some something that happened to her that kind of ruffled her feathers i guess you can say but
when she comes across this young boy again the simple premise of this film is a father and son
are on a run from two assassins because the father has some very valuable information something
happens on their journey to montana where the boy has to fend for himself he comes across angie and
jolie and she has to protect him from these assassins and also a fire that's going on so
going back to hannah's character i believe that she had this tragedy i believe she had to strip
on the shoulder i believe she was one of the guys you know she's with these group of firefighters
and she has this kind of backstory and it just felt very believable very tangible and just a
a really solid performance this isn't her best performance of all time but it's just so good to
kind of see her back in that action thriller lane it's been i want to say 10 plus years salt was
maybe the last time i've seen her in the action thriller and of course she's getting back into the
things that she's going to be in marvel with the eternals but i thought she was really believable
as hanna in this film and her chemistry with the young man in this movie who i thought when you
we've seen this film before and i'll get to my kind of criticism a little bit later in regards
to the short the straightforwardness of the story but you've seen the movie where you have a young
boy or a young girl that gets separated from their parents they come across our lead in the
film and you know they have to either chemistry is there it's believable it's not believable in this
film i feel like the chemistry between angelina jolie is hannah and the young boy she's protecting
i felt the the the believable fact that she wants to protect this kid no matter what just
based on what happened to her in the past so i thought their chemistry was really well done i
thought for the most part all the actors were very believable uh my man john berthold who i
mentioned up top is in this film and for my fans out there john berthold i'll just say especially
in the worlds of him being involved in uh the sicario worlds the you know wind river he's in
the film for more than five minutes i i'll say that which is always welcome because i'm such a
big john bertholf fan but he is a uh a sheriff in this film and i thought that he brought something
really unique to the table and just believable as well his relationship with his wife phil earned it
felt you know very believable and his wife by the way who's like a survivalist she was fantastic in
this movie and everyone across the board just did a really good job in my opinion so the direction
was there i thought the performances were very believable the scope and scale of the film again
when we're dealing with these fires it felt like very real fires if i felt the tension i felt the
thrilling aspects of trying to get away from these assassins in the middle of a forest fire and then
also just to the again i mentioned the realism of how he directs his films and writes his films
these two assassins man something unique about the chemistry between adrian gillan and nicholas
whole i'll talk about the performance a little bit later but their chemistry they felt like
just like two assassins that could be really in this real world they weren't like bubbling
crazy goofy type of assassins they had a mission they had a certain camaraderie that they had of a
brotherhood that i found to be pretty uh you know a little bit different a little bit more than just
one dimensional uh you know villains that were just all out to kill this kid and his father so
those are some things i really thought were very positive to say about the film going into my
negatives i hinted that a little bit earlier this isn't groundbreaking storytelling this is a very
traditional story that we've seen before and i have to say i hate to play the comparing game but
this doesn't have the same type of grittiness as some of the other films that i've seen of taylor
sheridan and particularly a sicario or even a wind river it has that gravitas but not the same type
of punch that you may expect in his type of film so it did kind of miss that that sensibilities i'm
used to seeing his films as well as you know there are some supporting characters that i found to be
a little bit on the generic side tyler perry's in this movie i don't know why he's in this film they
literally could have casted anyone in the film that's not necessarily a great but it's just
like why is tally fair i have nothing against tyler perry i respect him as a businessman and
opportunities he gives to people but he's in this movie randomly and doesn't really offer anything i
also think of i mentioned the the believability of the assassins nicholas holt for some reason
i really like him as an actor and i found him to be believable but it was something about his
portrayal as this assassin that just didn't feel it felt a bit off now you know adrian gillian has
you know littlefinger from my fans out there game of thrones you can always imagine him as a bad guy
but for something about nicholas he just felt a little bit off for me in this film but outside
those little nitpick things this film it knows what it is it's an hour and 40 minutes it tells
this story again a generic story which is probably my biggest gripe it was just it missed some of the
the gravitas that i'm used to seeing in the taylor sheridan film which may speak to this film having
two other writers this movie is based on the novel and you had the writer of the novel who was also
a part of the writing of this film this is one of the only films that i can think of that taylor
sheridan adapted from a book everything else he's done has been an original screenplay so
i think it might have played to this film having to be adaptation from a book that might have
played into some of the stuff that didn't really work for me in regards to the originality and just
feeling kind of straightforward like you would expect from a novel so not a lot of negatives
but at the same time this isn't necessarily like groundbreaking taylor chariton type of
stuff that i've come accustomed to so that's kind of my pros my cons before i give you my overall
thoughts on my score make the make sure to like the video share the video leave your thoughts in
the comments to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already overall pretty straightforward
film in regards to just a throwback to a simple story about surviving in the woods against a
fire as well as going against two assassins and meeting some you know really believable characters
hannah's character john berthold they all felt very believable in their roles but like i said
it does lack a little bit of originality it lacks a little bit of the punch that i come to expect
from a sheridan type of film written and directed by this fantastic creator but nonetheless this is
a pretty solid film behind uh you know behind everything being said in my negatives i'm gonna
give it a three and a half out of five guys this isn't something i have to say that you have to see
in theaters but if you have some time over this weekend if you're looking for just say you know
a pretty compelling thrilling kind of action film with an incredible actress and angelina jolie and
a great writer and director in uh taylor sheridan with a pretty solid cast give it a watch and when
you do let me know your thoughts on it your pros your cons what was some of your thoughts on the
performances the direction uh as well as let me know in the comments your favorite angelina
jolie film let me know that in the comments below and let's have a discussion about it so as always
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