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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good movie but grossly overrated

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I enjoyed this movie, even if it wasn't meant to be the second coming of the Lethal Weapon. This was supposed to be a philosophical movie, but since such movies get Oscar and then end up with no one watching them, they thought to make the heroes cops. There is a lot of subtext to the movie. One of the cops is a family man, while the other is a drunkard who never goes to bed sober. The first seems to live a happy family life, while the second drinks out of despair. They seem to be completely amoral, robbing robbers, beating up suspects, and... completely neglecting the paperwork. Or, that's one way to see it. The other way is that they only care about what matters, their own lives, freedom, their families and friends. They appear not to give a damn about their assigned role in society, and the movie send the message that neither should we. And if we have second thoughts, we should know that those above us, that we protect by doing our duty, don't care either. That, I think was the metaphor with the English lord. Apart from the subtext, the movie has many cool moments, and great music. It also has the feeling of a seventies movie. Since it's a movie about freedom, I guess it has to feel like that.

War on Everyone is a dialogue driven movie, character developments are secondary and the plot is almost besides the point. The movie is akin to an annotated prose poetry book, with explanatory notes for some of the more ambiguous lines within the book itself. Viewers would enjoying second and third viewings where plenty of references embedded in the movie, some to itself, will emerge. The movie is in the buddy cop comedy genre. This is a crowded genre and the movie wastes no time delving on the obvious. In fact most of the clichés are assumed and the movie proceeds beyond the cliché. Therefore, those viewers less familiar with buddy copy clichés, might feel a discontinuity in the movie, whereas more experienced movie goers will find the story seamless and funny. It is also difficult to tell if one is reading too much into the script and one's interpretation is co-incidental or not. For examples, some of the characters find themselves in Iceland after indulging in some unlawful activity. Is the movie making a socio-political statement about Iceland's liberal policies? Perhaps, and that is the great thing about the script, it raises more questions than it answers. In fact the movie itself mentions this very point, so the writing is self-aware. If you are looking for an intelligent movie with smart dialogue then you will enjoy watching this movie.

I had heard about this film a while back and I have now gotten around to seeing it and I got to be honest this film is really bad. The premise of this film sees a couple of corrupt cops attempt to get the best out of there job while a criminal attempts to take them down. Now the best thing in this film is pretty easy to see, that is Michael pena and his performance, even though far from his best he tries his best to give a decent performance with a few fun laughs. Alexander skaarsgard plays his partner in this film and he is truly awful in this film, he is so unlikeable that you really don't care about him or anything that he does in this film. The supporting cast is completely forgettable whether it is Theo James as the villain or Tessa Thompson as a love interest or anybody else none of them stand out or give any performance that you care about. The story is all over the place and really doesn't create one likable character in this scenario or one story beat where you will care about anybody or anything in this film. The script I will admit does have some funny lines in it and I did chuckle sometimes. But it is not enough and any of the dramatic dialogue is ridiculously bland. The style of the film is awful, I get that these lead characters are not really meant to be good people but there is nothing here that gives you any reason you no reason to care about in the action scenes. Overall I hate this film and I believe that it should be avoided at all cost unless you just like dark comedies that don't have much quality.

The only reason for the high score is for the cinematography. This was a total waste of $1.50 at Red Box. Could not even get through the 2nd track. Acting was dry and stiff, poor direction, poor editing. Comedic timing was off by miles. If this was given to a talented director ( Tim Miller, Deadpool )and a decent editor, I might have finished watching.