Sunday, May 30, 2021

Sabotage (2014)

  This is an aggressively stupid movie but it blows stuff up real good.

John "Breacher" Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the leader of a hotshot team of DEA undercover operatives.  Kind of.  Mostly they are just trigger happy frat bros with one ringer, Lizzy (Mirielle Enos), who goes in for recon.  Anyway, they decide to rip $10 million off a cartel bust, but when they go back for retrieval, the money is gone.  Six months later, the team starts to get picked off one by one.  Is it the cartel? Is it someone on the team?  Atlanta homicide detective Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is determined to find out.

Okay, so this is extremely male gaze-y cinematography and flat out misogynistic writing.  The action scenes are tight but you better be okay with absolute gallons of fake blood.  It's not a terrible movie but you can do better.  Maybe you don't want better, though.  Maybe you want spray can cheese.  If so, it's currently streaming on Netflix.


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