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Saturday, July 11, 2020

The Old Guard


The Old Guard | Official Trailer | Netflix

An action packed but very silly movie. Charlize Theron plays an immortal tough girl leading a gang of three immortal tough guys in a battle for truth, justice and something or other. There are some good fight scenes, one between Charlize and the new girl in the back of a DC-3 while in flight. Charlize has another good one with the head of the bad guy's security force in a glassed in skybridge. There are also a couple of good gunfights and a couple of grisly massacres.

The bad guy is Merrick, the youngest CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Where have we heard that before? His company is named Merrick, which looks a whole lot like Merck which is a real drug outfit. Is someone in Hollywood pissed at Merck? Or is this a case of 'any publicity is good publicity', but in this case they didn't even spell the name right. Who knows what goes through the heads of marketing guys?

Spoilers follow. Merrick meets his comeuppance when Andy hits him in the neck with an her special ax of oblivion and then Nile tackles him and they fall out through what was a plate glass window a minute ago but is now just a big hole. Right . They fall 15 stories and land on top of a car. Both are crushed dead, but Merrick stays dead and Nile recovers in a few seconds and they all ride off into the sunset happy and satisfied that they killed, killed, killed the bad guy.

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