Tuesday, June 4, 2024

THE WEAPON 2023 (LIONSGATE)

A very disjointed film.

Before I watched this movie I read about it and found it to be hated. The most disliked part from what I could make out was the crazy way the film was edited and put together.

I can agree with that because you had present day things which switched to flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks without any notice and it does make the film very hard to follow, especially for a modern audience.

Tony Schiena stars as Dallas, a hit man who is hired by a Vegas mob boss to get rid of some people. He is a one man killing machine, but does have a lot of skeletons in his closet as well.

Richard Grieco is Lars, the head bad guy that nobody seems able to catch. Grieco fits the role perfectly, but then he's always good at this kind of stuff.

It all boils down to Dallas rescuing a beautiful woman named Iris (AnnaLynne McCord) from the grips of Lars, which he manages to do. The problem is we are never given a full explanation as to why this is all going down anyway.

I didn't dislike the movie, but I can't say I liked it either. The only thing I really liked about it, of course, is AnnaLynne. Seeing her in anything makes it a bit better.

The rest of the cast includes Sean Patrick Flanery, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Bruce Dern, Jack Kesy and Oksana Lada.

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