The Rhythm Section (2020)

Leon-a-like, plot is nonsensical

Thriller about assassination due to revenge. Quite good acting, nice locations, but not at all compelling, and the "surprise" ending makes the rest of the story into total nonsense.

The plot is just like "Leon". Some of the scenes where Jude Law teaches Blake Lively to be an assassin seem to have been taken directly from Leon.

The female character may be well played but it's very hard to feel anything much positive about her.

The plot is gigantic hokum about assassins, and the ending of the film makes all of it completely absurd. There was no reason for this assassination bureau to blow up the plane "to send a message" (who to?), and there was no reason for "governmental agencies" to disguise that the plane had been blown up and pretend it was a crash. So what was the point of all the previous things that happened?

It's just pathetic to create a plotline with a denouement which makes the entire previous story into nonsense, like watching a film where it turns out that everything that happened was a dream.

There is some nice scenery in Scotland and nice photography generally, but some of the camera work is dreadful. The worst example is during the car chase in Tangiers. The cameraman is sitting in the passenger seat, and as the car spins, the camera rotates from the front window to the driver's face. Both are anticlockwise, so it's very disorienting.

The movie gods should punish the plot cliche "revenge for family being killed" by forcing the moviemakers to listen to Alexei Sayle singing "Didn't you kill my brother" on an endless loop, for at least twenty-four hours for each family member for which revenge is sought.

As for realism, it's almost impossible to imagine that an air crash could be faked like this. Air crashes are investigated very thoroughly and publicly, so the premise of a bombing being covered up for some reason is completely unrealistic.

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