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I wanted to like this. I have loved many works by Hill and Murphy, they have made absolutely perfect films before. They have also done great offensive comedy before. I love offensive comedy. I was hoping this was being disliked because of its offensiveness. It is not. It is just boring and unrelatable.

I think this is written by Los Angeles elite TRYING to be offensive, but they are so indoctrinated they dont know what that would sound like. They dont know what normal humans sound like. All the "offensive" jokes are very obvious and sstrange and unrealistic. None of the characters are likeable. I fell asleep 1/2 way through just because I hadn't laughed at all. I was just staring at the screen puzzled as to how a movie with great actors could be so bad.

Jonah Hill has been making some terrible stuff lately honestly as a trend. Eddie Murphy may be the all time most wasted film talent though. I can't think of a greater actor who has more consistently made unwatchable Pluto Nash type garbage. Pluto Nash is more entertaining than this. Its a shame because every movie with him I keep wanting him to be funny, I can tell he still has it, but nobody wants to write him jokes. Such a waste.

Skip this one no matter how offensive you do or don't like your comedy. Bottom line, its a snooze with no jokes or relatability to human life.

Great cast and acting, great setting and atmosphere, nonstop entertainment. I am a big fan of kung fu movies, constantly have Bruce Lee in the background, and while this might technically not be a kung fu movie, it captures the spirit of them. Definitely also has some Guy Ritchie inspiration to it. Some people are saying Tarantino but I dont see that at all. Not even close to a similar tone to Tarantino. I guess because its an ensemble of assassins in Asia and kung fu inspired? Seems to be really weird nitpicking to make that off link, or to call this movie derivative instead of inspired. Its definitely its own brand new thing in many ways.

It felt like an exciting action comic book to me. Every actor is happy to be there and putting their all into these extremO assassin caricatures. Its good to see Brad Pitt have real fun like this and try again, he even does the old Tyler Durden happy dance at one point. Joey King is also one of my favorites from many so bad they're good type movies. This one is actually good so that's fun. Lemon is very fun. A train setting is extremely fun. Some fun twists and surprise cameos. For me specifically it felt like they just rounded up all my favorite movie ingredients in a blender to make a perfect movie smoothie. This movie has it all and keeps it moving like a bullet train, will definitely be rewatched by me several times for many years as its just a very pleasant stylistic environment. If you cant have fun with this movie I hope whatever is troubling you gets better for you and you find some better fate and/or luck soon.

This is an important attempt at art. I was very pleased to see the ads for this one. Obviously there are powerful entities trying their best to cover up the important factual elements of this movie. The world of cinema has been so influenced by these forces that making a controversial in your face movie about the factual truth at the heart of this news story and making it with an attitude is very punk rock and I stand and applaud that.

This movie lays out some important facts. The lead actor is very good at playing the titular character. Shedding light on these matters through this art form at this moment in history is very important. I just wish I had more nice things to say about it, but that's about it. It reminds me more of the brief corny reenacting segments from a Dnesh Dsouza documentary than it does a classic piece of real cinema. If you want to know the facts, here are they are. Its just I dont know who this movie is for.

Anybody who wants to see this is probably already curious enough and knowledgeable enough about all the facts in the movie. I was expecting these facts to have a good movie around them. A well told story that you could appreciate in a timeless fashion even if you had no idea about any of this or the weight of it at present. Unfortunately that doesn't happen. False advertising. I wouldn't recommend it to people who dont follow American politics closely. Its a well done reenactment of facts and lays them out well in the way you would expect a corny network reenactment to play out. They try to inject some comedy but it isn't well done or funny aside from a few brief moments. The acting aside from the main character (he's great) is very very amateur, as is the pacing and cinematography and soundtrack and the rest. If you're looking for confirmation bias and dead set on liking this and laughing at the poorly told "jokes" that's the only way I could see calling this a good piece of cinema.

As a reenactment of facts it succeeds and is more fun than just watching a documentary with interviews and talking heads. I just feel betrayed by the false advertising that this is a real top notch film. I think most of the target audience already knows these facts, so it would have been nice if it could appeal to more of mainstream moviegoers. As a reenactment of important present news stories it succeeds in the way a really good episode of a TV News Drama like Unsolved Mysteries would. As true timeless cinematic art, nope, I dont know how anybody could say that with honesty it even finds the ballpark. A step in the right direction for cinema, but a very small baby step that ends in a collapse. Its heart was in the right place, but thats not enough. Better luck next time, keep trying.