A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them ... Read allA teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
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Alex Wagenman
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I cannot remember the last time I've seen a truly "good"movie put out on the big screen. They appear to be getting more and more mediocre as the years go by. Those Who Wish Me Dead was no exception. Actors I used to love, all staring in movies with weak, cliche plots. Big names like Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington hardly mean anything anymore. Nothing new or clever here. This movie is fine as background noise while you scroll through Instagram or Pinterest lazily on a late Saturday night but if you are looking for something to get into, this is not it.
I basically enjoyed this movie. I don't require a movie to have a multi-level plot and deep character flaws to be entertained. Most everything was fine here. The actors did well with the script they were given. I didn't see anything wrong with the CGI as others have commented. The action was fine, and pretty much everything made sense.
There were only two things I would change. One character's story was not entirely completed at the end. A 10 second scene would have fixed that part of the ending.
The other item was the language. I get tired of the constant use of the f word. It's meaningless verbal garbage and adds nothing to the movie.
There were only two things I would change. One character's story was not entirely completed at the end. A 10 second scene would have fixed that part of the ending.
The other item was the language. I get tired of the constant use of the f word. It's meaningless verbal garbage and adds nothing to the movie.
Forensic accountant Owen Casserly goes on the run with his young son Connor. His D. A. colleague has been murdered by an assassin team, Jack (Aidan Gillen) and Patrick Blackwell (Nicholas Hoult). He had uncovered high-powered political corruption. With no one to trust, he heads off to small town Montana where his brother-in-law Ethan Sawyer (Jon Bernthal) is a Deputy Sheriff. The assassin team catches up to him before that. His son Connor escapes and finds help from smokejumper Hannah Faber (Angelina Jolie).
In the old days, this would be a mid-level thriller which would come in and be forgotten in a week. Nowadays, it's a mid-level thriller on streaming that is soon forgotten after being released. It's a functional movie. It has a bit too much on Hannah's past trauma. She needs to connect with Connor a bit sooner. Pregnant Rambo is pretty dope. The good news is that most of the characters are pretty smart. There are no overtly stupid moves from these people. Even stupid moves have reasonable excuses. It's ok. Watch it and forget it.
In the old days, this would be a mid-level thriller which would come in and be forgotten in a week. Nowadays, it's a mid-level thriller on streaming that is soon forgotten after being released. It's a functional movie. It has a bit too much on Hannah's past trauma. She needs to connect with Connor a bit sooner. Pregnant Rambo is pretty dope. The good news is that most of the characters are pretty smart. There are no overtly stupid moves from these people. Even stupid moves have reasonable excuses. It's ok. Watch it and forget it.
Its not the best movie ever but not the worst good action, you hate the bad guy they do a great job at it, the fire takes a back burner.
All in all a good way to spend 2 hours but you probably won't watch again.
All in all a good way to spend 2 hours but you probably won't watch again.
A brand new movie just added to HBO Max. A traumatized and retired firefighter who had to protect a boy from those who wish him dead.
When I saw the trailer, I expected a pretty simple thriller. And I was right. The trailer showed most of the story. The plot was seen a bunch of times before, so there wasn't any surprises here.
The acting was pretty decent across the board. There wasn't much complex emotion or scenes that required these actors to show their best.
Even though the plot was simple, I still wanted a decent thriller, and the movie gave me that. There were some pretty okay and intense action scenes, and they were handled well.
My biggest problem was the characters. At the beginning, the movie showed the event that traumatized the main character, played by Jolie. However, I did not see the significance of this event to the story at all. It didn't impact her character when she was in the action scenes.
Besides the main character, there were minimal development to the other characters. Jon Bernthal was badass as usual, but I didn't care for his character much, or any other characters.
Overall, a decent thriller, but everything else was average and not memorable. There's no need to watch this movie. 6/10.
When I saw the trailer, I expected a pretty simple thriller. And I was right. The trailer showed most of the story. The plot was seen a bunch of times before, so there wasn't any surprises here.
The acting was pretty decent across the board. There wasn't much complex emotion or scenes that required these actors to show their best.
Even though the plot was simple, I still wanted a decent thriller, and the movie gave me that. There were some pretty okay and intense action scenes, and they were handled well.
My biggest problem was the characters. At the beginning, the movie showed the event that traumatized the main character, played by Jolie. However, I did not see the significance of this event to the story at all. It didn't impact her character when she was in the action scenes.
Besides the main character, there were minimal development to the other characters. Jon Bernthal was badass as usual, but I didn't care for his character much, or any other characters.
Overall, a decent thriller, but everything else was average and not memorable. There's no need to watch this movie. 6/10.
Did you know
- TriviaThe production team rigged an enormous woodland set, which was safely set ablaze. Real firefighters stayed on set to carefully contain the inferno, Angelina Jolie met with several of them for insight into the perilous world of smoke jumping.
- GoofsThe dad wrote 2 sheets of paper with compromising information about illegal stuff and gave them to his son. While those papers would likely have been damaged and unreadable after getting wet when Hannah and Connor spent the night in the water near the end, Hannah did read the papers when she first met Connor. While it wasn't specifically shown in the film, it is entirely plausible that she would have told him what the papers said if they were unreadable by the time it was necessary to tell the media.
- ConnectionsFeatured in La 93e cérémonie des Oscars (2021)
- SoundtracksArkansas
Written by Mike Campbell and Chris Stapleton
Performed by Chris Stapleton
Courtesy by Mercury Nashville
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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- Those Who Wish Me Dead
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,407,200
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,831,382
- May 16, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $19,107,200
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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