An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. As usual, I didn’t know anything about this movie before watching it but I think it made the whole thing slightly more enjoyable this way. Anyway, it turned out to be an endless shoot-out, seriously, it took about 2/3 of the running time and, as a result, it is apparently the longest gunfight ever filmed. Basically, you get to see a bunch of shady figures gathering in some random warehouse and they start to shoot at each other for some random reason until the very end. Sure, you could argue that's what John Wick has been doing for already 4 movies but the difference here was that it was taking place only at a single location, a location which wasn’t really fascinating, to be honest. By the way, I wonder if it was such a great idea to bring so many people to a weapon deal. I counted them, they were 10 people, without the couple of snipers, which is kind of ridiculous but I get that, without this number of people involved, how could they sustain such an extensive shoot-out? Anyway, even though I did like the mood and even though I do think that Ben Wheatley made the most of this material, it was still pretty damned repetitive. Eventually, it’s pretty obvious that Wheatley got inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s work, especially ‘Reservoir Dogs’ but in Tarantino’s classic, the characters were very well developed and the flashbacks were crucial. Wheatley’s commitment to show only what happened in this warehouse was commendable but, as a result, you learned pretty much nothing about the characters, except that most of them were apparently some lousy shot. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, at least, if you like the genre.