Freelance
Published 2024-07-06
Film info
- Title Freelance
- Director Pierre Morel
- Year 2023
- Run time 1hr 48m
- Genres Action, Comedy
- Tagline Retirement didn't suit him
- Cast John Cena, Alison Brie
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:54 | "One can hope, right?" I do! |
| 5:07 | Okay, terrifying helicopter scene early doors. |
| 16:31 | You really can't throw him out and then dictate his life. |
| 20:37 | Is Paldonia in the same universe as Genovia? |
| 28:58 | How much carnage can happen on one bridge!? |
| 36:00 | Jefe just makes me laugh, every time. |
| 38:21 | "No, he didn't tell me anything but he said everything." |
| 43:30 | The vortexes in the water are amazing! |
| 56:19 | "Just make sure we're both in the frame." Seems obvious but okay. |
| 1:04:26 | "For such a cynical man, you are hopelessly naive." |
| 1:12:14 | This is a first - car/horse chase. |
| 1:16:11 | "I'd be so bad at being a dictator." "No, you'd be great at it, it's just practice." |
| 1:27:19 | Secret passage behind the portrait, classic. |
| 1:39:49 | Team effort. |
Thoughts
The first half hour or so of this didn't fill me with a huge amount of hope - it felt like it was setting up to be a cheap, silly, derivative action movie, and took quite a while to get going. But once it kicked into gear, I really started to enjoy it. The dictator that turns out to not be what you think was well written and interesting, the 'romance' angle was different to other movies, and ultimately it was a fun ride. It maybe wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be, but maybe it wasn't trying to be a laugh-a-minute ride. Worth a look, anyway.
Rating: 4 / 5