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Watched a slightly older movie that kinda flew under our radar from the long forgotten year of 2022. The Contractor with Chris Pine. I think it’s best to totally skip it. The acting for the most part is fine for the kind of story it is and the action isn’t bad, just that there’s a few problems that are highly frustrating about the movie. It’s basically about a guy from the military that had a pretty bad leg injury and has had to take pain killers and steroids to try and keep his career going. He eventually gets booted out for drug use and that creates a lot of drama at home. That bit of the story isn’t so bad, but the filming is constantly done with shaky cam during these slow depressing scenes and kinda was making me feel sea sick.

He’s got an old war buddy that helps him land a job with a military contractor that tells him everything they’re going to do is legit and they’ll always take care of them, of course that’s obviously not true, but when they finally start doing their mission things go south and they’re stealing a mcguffin that is the most mcguffin of mcguffins that I’ve seen in a while. So most of the team dies other than Pine and his buddy that are both hurting. Eventually Pine gets the buddy runnning to an unsure extraction while resting up for the rest of his escape with the mcguffin. So then the story takes a turn and now the people that were supposed to help extract him are trying to kill him and the movie never ever explains why they are trying to kill him and his buddy. Supposedly the boss pays the families big checks anyway even to the people that die and so money isn’t the issue. And I thought maybe they didn’t want witnesses, but then it turns out that when he gets back stateside that his buddy was fine. So then the witnesses thing isn’t really there either. He then makes his buddy cry and they go after the boss I an average action movie type scene, but even after dealing with the big boss nothing really gets explained about why they wanted him dead so badly they’ve risked even more high paid mercenaries lives. They even kill a guy running one of their secret safe houses for no real reason either. Also the shaky cam stopped somehow before the mission started for unknown reasons and I don’t remember it ever returning. Kinda glad they killed the first camera man at least, cause that guy was terrible at his job, hopefully the paid the camera man’s family well for his loss.

I do feel like if there was a bit more work put into this movie it could’ve been a fairly good action film , but weird film styles and bad writing. And the reason they were sent to destroy or steal the mcguffin was because it was some goofy tech that seems to cure birdflu of all things and the company that hired them didn’t want competition with their treatment medications. Like I’ve said, the action wasn’t bad at all, but really was the only stable piece of the movie.

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