12/11/2020
Joe Manganiello plays a homeless drunk who may or may not be an interdimensional warrior in Adam Egypt Mortimer s midnight movie.
Sharing DNA with everything from
The Terminator and contemporary superhero films to
The Fisher King and
Liquid Television, Adam Egypt Mortimer s
Archenemy is named for a villain who may exist only in the mind of a homeless schizophrenic. Joe Manganiello plays that man, who calls himself Max Fist and claims to be a hero who got stuck on our Earth after saving all life in some other dimension; that claim s truth may or may not matter to the aspiring blogger (Skylan Brooks) who wants to ride Fist s boasts to viral fame. A critique of post-millennial journalism is one of several ideas raised but mostly abandoned in this genre pastiche, which never really coalesces despite some promising elements.