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Joe Carnahan s film is almost a satire of how action heroes (and audiences) see the same thrills over and over.
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3/5/2021
Joe Carnahan s action pic featuring Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts sticks a tough guy (Frank Grillo) in a man-made time loop.
Okay: It s getting a little ridiculous with the time-loop movies, right? Unless you subscribe to the movies-mirror-reality idea, in which stories of waking up every day to an uncontrollable but numbingly familiar set of horrors feel about right. Falling rather low on the wit spectrum for this genre but high in terms of action, Joe Carnahan s
Boss Level plays up the ways these movies resemble video games all the way from its title and 8-bit opening credits to the giant roster of eccentric but two-dimensional baddies trying to kill its hero. Don t expect any surprises as that hero churns through the no-names to get to the big villain.