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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
Don't you find that there are days when you just want to watch a movie to pass the time and that's it? - Those are the days when there is no great interest in knowing or knowing the film in question, the plan is to sit down, play the movie and that's it. Well, that's the case of this new release from Mark Wahlberg, an actor who surprisingly is very good at this kind of movies that combine comedy with a bit of action. Because yes, this AppleTv is a story, one of the most clichéd that can exist, that combines the typical family trip where the brothers hate each other and the couple is looking for the lost spark in their marriage with a subplot that turns everything upside down and in the end the trip ends up being a total chaos.
It's a mix of comedy because of course, the things that happen and the dialogues lend themselves to that with an action that involves seeing the best of Wahlberg's repertoire when it comes to throwing a few punches and killing a few enemies. If you ask me, yes, it's an entirely family friendly movie that as I said in the title is one to put on a Sunday at 5pm in your living room and have everyone sit down to watch it. Having said that, I imagine you are already expecting what kind of film it is, its style and what it is about, but well, let's go and delve a little deeper into this film that is easy to watch, without further ado.
This is a story where hiding secrets in marriage in most cases may not be a good idea. Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) is the typical family man, hardworking and loving to his family but with a rather dark past, one that his family has no idea exists. Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) is the wife and mother, a physical therapist and just as selfless and good person as her husband. The issue is that they are immersed in a lapidary routine and she longs for a radical change in their day to day life, she would like Dan to be more spontaneous and their lives to be more vivid. What Jess doesn't know is that her dream is about to come true but thanks to some dangerous and lethal reasons.
Dan, being a former government hitman, has a somewhat complicated past that is about to catch up with him in his new life. To escape from him, he invents a family trip with the excuse of escaping and losing his trail, but things are not usually that easy. It is here when the plot begins to take shape and we will see a kind of chase across the United States where a family, without knowledge of anything, trying to escape from a gang of killers hired by a certain McCaffrey, played by the great Ciarán Hinds. In this journey we will see a little bit of everything, how the relationship between everyone is strengthened as the dangers approach and Dan, from the incognito, protect his family at all costs.
Mark Wahlberg is one of those actors who have an invisible stamp and he is surprisingly good at this type of movies where comedy is the central axis of the plot. To give you an example, I would say "TED", where he is the endearing friend of a teddy bear. This film has many comic touches, situations where humor prevails over everything else, which makes it enjoyable to watch. I'm not telling you that you'll dry up laughing, but it's a fresh story where you might see a smile or two. All this is basically thanks to the interaction of everyone with everyone, this gives rise to the simplest thing to be a reason for something a little funny.
There is also action, in this section I must say that I was quite surprised because I did not expect that the scenes of this genre were made decently. We have car chases, melee fights, exchanges of gunfire, one of the final scenes there are multiple clashes that were not so bad, in short, to be the film that one expected it to be ended up being much more striking than imagined. It is strange that in this type of films in which the expectations are only to pass the time and the final result is much cooler than a few films of names that may be out there.
The plot is super simple and basic but despite that it is one that does not let you get bored, at least it was not my case. It is true that there are some strange gaps in the script and in the way some scenes and situations are developed, but for a film with the characteristics of this one, I think they are fine, and those of us who go to see this kind of things are not as attentive to these details as if they were those of a big movie premiere. The primary purpose of these films is to entertain, there is no other, they are made with the purpose of being consumed en masse when there is nothing else to see. Without pretensions or aspiring to something it is not, it is an ordinary film, one more of the bunch that works to pass the time.
The characters, as well as the whole production, are flat, there is nothing remarkable about them. I think it's a good cast where everyone did their job but that's as far as it goes. I give the movie a 6/10, I think as entertainment it is more than acceptable, with moderately good action scenes and a fresh comedy. You can find it on Apple TV+ and it's less than two hours long. I leave the trailer below.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!
