The Old Guard

Un thème intéressant et digne d'intérêt, mais le film manque malheureusement d'une agilité élémentaire. Ce qu'il fallait ici, c'était la main d'un monteur et d'un scénariste/dramaturge habile. Les conversations philosophiques ultralongues, dans un film d'action, ça passe mal. Dommage, très dommage. En tout cas, j'ai eu la confirmation que le bad boy belge Matthias Schoenaerts me plaît dans tous les rôles. (19/07/2020)

Si Charlize et la pharmacienne qui lui soigne l'épaule s'étaient embrassées, le cercle de la bizarrerie de cette œuvre aurait été bouclé. Un mélange étrange de motifs existentiels à la Bram Stoker, de parodie presque exagérée du « politiquement correcte » raciale, de genre et du LGBT, de tous les clichés du genre d'action et de science-fiction, le tout avec une emphase excessive sur les émotions et les motivations des personnages, parfois impressionnants et parfois stupides. En fin de compte, c'est toujours meilleur et plus cohérent sur le plan de l'intrigue qu'un certain film récents d'équipes de Netflix, celle de Bay. (29/07/2020)

After Extraction, another big budget action movie with a big star. Unfortunately, this time behind the camera is not a former stuntman, but the director of the drama The Secret Life of Bees and the romance Love & Basketball. But enough, I'm not going to make fun of Gina Prince-Bythewood, she ironically deserves to be one of the few to be praised. At least a little. The action scenes aren't all bad, and while they lose out to today's cutting edge, they never turn into a confused mess. Otherwise, however, it's a dud. Although the plot revolves around a bunch of immortals who have been through the centuries, fought in various wars on every continent, and are depressed that all their loved ones have died, none of this is able to sell The Old Guard to the audience. And all the heartfelt outpourings about how they're alone in the world, immortality being a curse and all, get increasingly annoying as the runtime goes on, because there's not much else The Old Guard addresses. Sure, Charlize Theron is cool, and the rest of the team tries their best too, but it doesn't change the fact that more than any of the characters and their fate, I wondered when the curry on the stove would get finished. A minor league spectacle in every way. (13/07/2020)

At first glance Old Guard looked like a totally great action movie but it is quite the opposite. It is totally dumb starting with its premise, dominated by extremely unpleasant Charlize Theron but which has an unexpectedly quite solid fighting scenes. What can I say – Old Guard isn’t Mad Max for Charlize to behave in the same way to achieve a totally different result. (15/07/2020)

Disintegrating, pace-free, dramatic structure, slightly naive in its seriousness... nevertheless, in the second half, the strange cheesy girl's individuality, well-acted characters and solid actions began to draw me into the world so much that I was inclined toward watching the second part. It's a bit like Underworld for intellectuals and is a very long series pilot, which could possibly get going in the second season. (14/07/2020)