As we know, I like my sisters in the world love Jason Statham, I believe I was disappointed for the first time in my life, sigh…
Friday night we watched Parker, with Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, well that’s the way it was billed and on the cover, this was not really the case. Nick Nolte and Michael Chiklis (remember The Commish? He seems to be a bad guy in everything he’s done since!) and Patti Lupone were also a part of the cast, the more well known names that I could remember, sorry.
What’s the saying..honor among thieves? The story is that Jason Statham is a theif, there is a job that gets botched, but they get away with the take, $1M, he is done, just wants his take and he’s out. They have another job they want him to do with them, he says no, he just wants his money and he’s out of there. Apparently they don’t like his answer, so they try to kill him, nice.
The rest of the movie is kind of a revenge movie, he just wants his money, but in the process he is going to get back at the guys who did this to him. There’s also a hit man who is after him, of course one of the other bad guys is related to the mob in Chicago, go figure. Let’s just say, they got theirs. Jennifer Lopez did come into play, but not the way you are lead to believe by the jacket. She did get to kiss Jason Statham, lucky girl!
I will say that even though he gets revenge and justice, and his money, all he wanted was what he was owed, he had the crap kicked out of him left and right! Overall, not a bad movie, not the best, but not bad, definitely a Jason Statham vehicle.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1904996/?ref_=sr_2
Last night we decided to make pizza , yum! and watch some movies, I did some shopping and DCM picked the movies. First we watched Now You See Me, which we loved and I will review another night and I wish we had watched this movie second, I would have felt better.
The second movie we watched was Redemption , another Jason Statham movie. When do I get that 1.5 hours back? I know it was Jason Statham, but…(per Harry Potter, I don’t think there’s enough chocolate in the world to make me feel better!)
The description from imdb.com “Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London’s criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man’s identity — transforming into an avenging angel in the process.”
This was pretty accurate, but overall depressing as hell. Yes, he was an avenging angel, but he was also a very bad man, one doesn’t seem to outweigh the other unfortunately. He was good to the other homeless men he knew, when he had money, he would order takeout for them, which was delivered to the soup kitchen where a particular sister worked. He tried to do good in things for her, she was incredibly conflicted. There was a girl that he shared a cardboard hut with, he looked out for her, I say girl, she was in her mid twenties, and he did what he could to protect her, in the end it wasn’t enough, but he found the guy and it was all over.
As the description says, he transforms himself, he cleans up, gets clean, does what he can to make things right, but it’s never just right. In the end, he falls back into oblivion, probably never to be seen again, I still don’t feel good after watching this.
So, as I said, was Parker redemption for Redemption? I guess not since Parker came out first! but did redemption even make it to the theater in the states?
Peaches Prattlings 