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A wizard did it
“I done blew up a thing, hurr hurr hurr.”
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2022 | 12 | Blu-ray (4K/regular)/DVD/ download
► Director Jaume Collet-Serra
► Cast Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo
When this latest DCEU movie was on the way, star/producer Dwayne Johnson’s constant social media mantra was that “the hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change”. That may be true, but shame about the hierarchy of quality.
Somewhat fittingly for a story about a man out of time, the movie – directed by Jaume Collet Serra, who made a career out of Liam Neeson geriaction vehicles and other thrifty thrillers before he and Johnson collaborated on Jungle Cruise – has the lingering impression of something made much earlier in the pantheon of superheroic outings. Here, the former slave turned hero turned power-hungry villain is released from a long imprisonment and swears to protect the people of an extremely fake (for political and cultural reasons) country, these days struggling against the rule of terrorist organisation Intergang.