French is a former SAS officer who takes a job for a loan shark so he can keep his martial arts academy going. Despite being repeatedly warned this is a rough job, he insists he can handle it, then finds, surprise! he doesn't really like some of the stuff you have to do when collecting on debts. If only someone had warned him.
He gets partnered with Sue, an experienced debt collector and former boxer, now well past his prime. They argue and bust each other's chops. French complains a lot about everything. Eventually, they're tasked to find a guy it turns out is innocent of any wrongdoing and have to decide what to do about that.
The end of the movie felt like it escalated rapidly, but that may have been necessary to present a situation where Sue would decide enough is enough. The fight scenes aren't bad, a lot of them involve French fighting some extremely large man while Sue interrogates someone else. Which reminded me of a line from a Garth Ennis Punisher story, something about self-defense instructors teaching that if your opponent is 6-5 and 300 pounds, you're going to lose. French doesn't lose, but he does get tossed around quite a lot. I thought he'd be more resourceful, honestly, use his surroundings, weapons, stuff like that. That's more Sue's bag, work smart not hard.
Also, the movie held off a lot longer on making the obvious comment about a British guy named "French" than I would have expected. Certainly much longer than I did watching the movie (it took me about five minutes).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment