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I can t believe this is a film that was almost never released. Directed by Joe Carnahan (
The Grey, The A-Team, Smokin Aces), it was planned for release on Aug. 16, 2019. Instead it was shelved. Thank goodness it s found a home on Hulu. It s a hoot!
Following the now well-worn idea of
Groundhog Day, the story trails former Special Forces operative Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) as he relives the day of his death over and over again. Like
Edge of Tomorrow (2014), every day Roy gets a little further through the day before he s inevitable killed by one of a cadre of colorful assassins. Think of it like a video game and the player trying to level up.
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Will our escapist fare ever stop telling us to put away childish things? Can one really accept life lessons from a film with multiple Hitler jokes? While Carnahan’s sense of humor has always been juvenile, in
Stretch it at least benefitted from a gonzo factor and the crucial quality of having funny parts.
Boss Level, however, is clumsy from the jump, with lame gags and a ceaseless, obtrusive voice-over that is always telling us why the next part is funny or what’s happening on screen (in case the viewer is distracted by their phone). The macabre comedy potential of watching Roy bite the dust ad nauseam is, if anything, underexplored; Carnahan can’t seem to think of anything more darkly comic than a guy taking a bullet to the groin. (As in the kitchen, it’s really all about timing and proportion. A man getting shot in the balls once isn’t funny but what if it was 10 times?)