4/16/2021
Morgan Freeman and Ruby Rose star in George Gallo s action-thriller about a retired cop who forces his caretaker possessing certain skills to do his nefarious bidding. I hear you kill more people than Quentin Tarantino, observes one of the many dispensable villains in the new action-thriller directed and co-written by George Gallo. It s an unfortunate line. Not simply because it isn t very funny, but also because it reminds viewers of so many earlier, far better examples of the overworked genre.
Vanquish stars Morgan Freeman who s apparently reached the show up for the paycheck stage of his career, already firmly occupied by the likes of Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis and John Travolta and Ruby Rose, fresh off her single-season stint as the title character in The CW s
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Morgan Freeman makes Ruby Rose blow away a lot of bad guys in George Gallo s perfunctory action opus.
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Director: George Gallo
With: Morgan Freeman, Ruby Rose, Patrick Muldoon, Nick Vallelonga, Chris Mullinax, Dylan Flashner, Paul Sampson, Julie Lott, Bill Luckett, Joel Michaely, Miles Doleac, Juju Journey Brener. (English, French, German dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 94 MIN.
Courtesy of Lionsgate
Early on in “Vanquish,” Ruby Rose as Morgan Freeman’s improbable housekeeper is very awkwardly chopping some vegetable the awkwardness providing a rare plausible moment, as Rose seems an even less likely maker-of-dinner than she does slayer-of-many-criminal-goons. If she’d kept slicing that carrot or whatever for the remaining 90 minutes here, the results would have been approximately as exciting as the high-body-count action occupying m
Directed by George Gallo.
Starring Morgan Freeman, Ruby Rose, Patrick Muldoon, Julie Lott, Ekaterina Baker, Nick Vallelonga, Joel Michaely, Miles Doleac, Chris Mullinax, Ele Bardha, Paul Sampson, Dylan Flashner, Bill Luckett, Juju Journey Brener, Reginald Robinson, Yvan Gauthier, Nate Adams, and Gregory Tremain Merrell.
SYNOPSIS:
A mother, Victoria, is trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage.
It’s no secret that beloved stars such as Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and even Guy Pearce as of late have fallen on hard times and will pretty much accept any role for a paycheck, typically putting in minimal effort. I never would have guessed Morgan Freeman would not only follow suit (maybe he already has and this is all news to me) here with