Arrow in the Head reviews the Joe Carnahan action movie Boss Level, starring Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, and Michelle Yeoh. Find it on Hulu!
There are certain directors who could easily be a character in one of their own movies.
Joe Carnahan is one of those filmmakers. He’s got an energy and personality that would feel right at home in his more fast-talking, adrenaline-fueled movies. Of course, Carnahan starred in his first movie,
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, and appeared in his bombastic popcorn movie
The A-Team, as well as his one night-gone-wrong in Los Angeles film,
Stretch.
When you talk to the director, you hear the same voice we hear in his work, including his latest movie,
Boss Level
. It’s an action movie set in a time loop in which Carnahan gets to kill his latest movie’s producer,
Joe Carnahan Talks Boss Level, Time Loops & the Genius of Frank Grillo [Exclusive]
Joe Carnahan Talks Boss Level, Time Loops & the Genius of Frank Grillo [Exclusive]
Acclaimed action director Joe Carnahan returns this weekend with the Hulu original movie Boss Level, which traps Frank Grillo in an insane time loop.
Big, bombastic and filled with non-stop action scenes,
Boss Level is the type of weekend entertainment that demands to be seen on movie theater screens. Unfortunately, most cinemas across the United States are still closed. So director Joe Carnahan has taken his time loop masterwork to Hulu, where it will premiere this Friday, March 5. And it s sure to be an instant favorite amongst action fans and sci-fi aficionados alike. We recently caught up with Joe Carnahan to talk about
Availability
Hulu March 5
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?)
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