Hmm, a Russell Mulcahy movie with Thomas Jane in the lead? Can you elaborate? Because the whole point of my comment was how good she is as an action hero, and specifically in contrast to an actor like Gal Gadot. But that movie you linked seems like a pretty thankless role as a dame in a detective potboiler. So if it’s just the cheesecake you’re referencing, I’m afraid you missed my point completely.
But if there’s more to that movie, I’d love to know about it! The director of Razorback and Highlander has his share of gems among all the stinkers.
All these clickbait headlines being thrown at me the other day are telling me that even this movie’s director didn’t expect it to become such a huge success. I shall not give them a click! But even without clicking, apparently this is the number one movie on Netflix now, which makes me want to see it.
You’ve kind of been duped by the headlines, I think. Netflix’s data is at https://top10.netflix.com/. It’s 2nd, not 1st. It did get top 1 on the week of its release, so it could be just old news. But making number 1 is mostly a factor of what other new releases there are, which seems to have been basically nothing that week.
35M hours watched on release week is OK for B-movie schlock without a big star, but nothing special. That’s roughly in the league of Night Teeth (31M or Kate, both of which were also the most popular movies of their release week, and neither of which you should particularly want to see based on just that data.
Now, wanting to see it because of Tom’s review, I can totally get! But don’t do it because of the stats.
Hah, yeah - it’s not great for Hemsworth fans! I honestly thought his scenes were the worst part of Interceptor, too. That first scene with him would’ve been a sufficiently fun little cameo, but the following ones were kinda cringe.
They came across like a parody of the kind of bit characters you get in Emmerich disaster movies to humanize the threat and act as comic relief, only especially jarring because it’s an A list actor and not an improv guy three years before his breakout role.
Admitted extremely loud laughter. I completely agree with most comments. I can’t say I thought it was “good”, but it kept my attention and interest all the way to the end.
Way back when Tom posted his review, I watched like thirty minutes of Interceptor and enjoyed it enough but got sleepy so I paused the movie and went night nights.
So last evening I clicked on my Netflix tab for the first time in months and the movie picked up right where I had left off so I finished it. I more or less agree with the dumb/fun consensus.
After it was over, I was in the mood for some more B-movie action pulp so I watched Copshop.
So I saw this, and I agree with most thing that have been said. I really wish Pataky was a better (good) actress, because I would like to see her do more action flicks. I do agree that her physicality is pretty good, and she’s got that stoic look to her. She’s pretty, but not genererically doll-like. I buy her movements for the most part. Which, as has also been said, I can not say about Gal Gadot, whose action sequences consist of her being digitally moved through space (from pose A to pose B), or at least that’s what it felt like.
What did amuse me very much were the Australian accents on, for example, the Navy SEALs haha
And, uh…I may have watched a bunch of videos of Pataky’s stunt double. You know. For research 👀
e: fun fact: a baby-faced Pataky can be seen in Beyond Re-Animator. How bout that!
