The Rhythm Section (2019)

[Drunk Monk]

Thanks for the link to the article in your other forum that has a broken link to the picture.

Weird.  I can still see it.  Maybe it's blocked by your firewall?  

Can you see this?

You are dead to me.

Nah, Billie is dead.  I'm still kicking. 

I'm beginning to think I could write in a trench under heavy mortar fire.  Yesterday I had to deal with getting home at 1AM after a bar date with the yeti (and no, not a bear bar, some millennial joint, but a decent whisky selection so it's all good).  I had my mom nagging me about a bunch of random chores, plus watching Emergency at top volume, which I had not seen in years but now find it very triggering after decades of working event medicine - that radio traffic gets my attention every time, an instinct beaten into me after carrying a radio at hundreds of concerts.  And I had the looming sadness of Billie and the urgent need to get home and say 'goodbye'.  

That being said, it's not my best review, but it's not that great of a movie.  It's okay. Blake is a fine actress and covers a lot of emotional ground.  The action is decent, not much hand-to-hand but some good car chases - no swordfights but some okay knife work - nothing to write home about really.  The story is uneven however, and Blake's journey to become this international assassin wasn't believable for me.  I did like the global cinematic vision of the film, reminiscent of Bond, but no feckin Dublin.  My 'official' review drops Friday.  Hope you 'like' it.