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1. ›Freelance@cute-cactus685d

   Freelance, a 2023 film that successfully blends action and comedy, provides the audience with fun-filled moments. The mediocrity that begins with the character, a former special forces soldier, missing his past years and trying to put his life in order after retirement, turns into a gripping, adventure-filled story as he takes on the task of protecting a female journalist.

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   Mason Pettis, a former special forces soldier, is dissatisfied with his post-retirement life and reflects this situation on his family. The way the contradictions of the character, who misses his old life and tries to return to the past at every opportunity, are reflected is successful because it is possible to understand Mason's feelings and apply them to every aspect of life.

   Not only is the story and the execution of the movie extremely successful, but it is also very skillful in combining action with comedy. The chemistry between the ex-soldier and the female journalist he protects enhances the impact of the comedy scenes. Even when things get out of control, the comedy scenes make more sense with the rising action momentum.

   My favorite character in Freelance was President Juan. Seeing the realities of politics through the eyes of a politician who is unpopular in his country and seen as a dictator led to both funny and thought-provoking scenes. The character seemed extremely successful in reflecting his political power, which manages to influence people in every way. I can say, but I can't prove, that the frames in question are true to life. Lol

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   I can say that the movie was visually impressive. The location choices were quite successful, I especially liked the chase scenes shot in nature. The way the action scenes were choreographed and the way the comedy was added was satisfying.

   The main characters, the ex-soldier and the female journalist, are in harmony with the side characters. Underneath the thought-provoking scenes of the movie, the president and his positive use of political power make the movie more entertaining than it is.

   The character of President Juan, who does not compromise his charisma even under the most difficult conditions, walking with his hands in his pockets and his typical politician appearance are the kind of unforgettable scenes. I can say that it was perfect for the character, who I found entertaining throughout the movie and who I liked the most.

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   The movie Freelance seems to be an option that promises pleasant moments for those who primarily like action and comedy genres. But I can also say that it appeals to everyone who likes to watch movies. I think it is a production that especially those who love the comedy genre should watch without thinking. The successful and energetic performances of the actors make you have a fun time throughout the movie and the time flows quickly.

   Thank you for being here and reading. I hope I have helped you get a preliminary idea about the movie. I wish everyone who will see the movie a good time. Take care and goodbye!

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2. ›Heroe por encargo / Freelance (2023): Movie Review@miguelpeliculas875d

   Me acosté en el mueble de la sala sin ninguna expectativa en particular en la cinta, pues era simplemente una excusa para procrastinar un poco más y no cumplir con mis obligaciones sin tener que pasar ningún susto por algún retraso, por lo que pese a muchas cosas negativas, no rechine ni una vez los dientes, aunque tengo que aceptar que el sabor de boca que me queda al escribir esto es raro, pues hay muchas inconsistencias y guion poco trabajado, tapado por explosiones, peleas y villanos con muy mala puntería.

   I lay down on the living room furniture without any particular expectations on the treadmill, as it was simply an excuse to procrastinate a little more and not fulfill my obligations without having to suffer any scare due to some delay, so despite many things Negatives, I did not grind my teeth even once, although I have to accept that the taste I have in my mouth when writing this is strange, since there are many inconsistencies and a poorly worked script, covered by explosions, fights and villains with very bad aim.

   Todo comienza con el teniente Pettits de fuerzas especiales, interpretado por John Cena, el nuevo actor Blockbuster de las peliculas de acción, narrando como fue su infancia, su decisión de estudiar leyes y luego de unirse al ejército, algo que ya de por sí suena como una locura, jajaja. En una misión en un país de Sudamérica gobernado por un tirano dictador, algo muy común en mis tierras, pues soy de Venezuela, tienen un accidente, lo que lo deja lesionado, con la mitad de su pelotón muerto y le obliga a dejar el ejército para seguir con una vida normal, algo a lo que nunca se pudo adaptar del todo.

   It all begins with Special Forces Lieutenant Pettits, played by John Cena, the new Blockbuster actor in action movies, narrating what his childhood was like, his decision to study law and then join the army, something that sounds familiar in itself. Like crazy, hahaha. On a mission in a South American country governed by a tyrant dictator, something very common in my lands, since I am from Venezuela, they have an accident, which leaves him injured, with half of his platoon dead and forces him to leave the army. to continue with a normal life, something to which he could never fully adapt.

   

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   Sinopsis segun FilmAffinity / Synopsis according FilmAffinity:

   "Mason Pettits, exagente de las fuerzas especiales está atrapado en un aburrido trabajo de oficina. A regañadientes acepta un encargo para proporcionar seguridad privada a Claire Wellington, una periodista fracasada, mientras entrevista a Juan Venegas, un despiadado -pero impecablemente vestido- dictador. Justo cuando está a punto de conseguir la primicia de su vida, estalla un golpe militar. Para salir con vida, el peculiar trío debe apañarse para sobrevivir a los asesinos, a la selva y a ellos mismos."

   "Mason Pettits, a former special forces agent, is stuck in a boring office job. He reluctantly accepts an assignment to provide private security for Claire Wellington, a failed journalist, while she interviews Juan Venegas, a ruthless - but impeccably dressed - dictator. Just as he is about to get the scoop of his life, a military coup breaks out. To make it out alive, the peculiar trio must manage to survive the killers, the jungle, and themselves."

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   Esa vida miserable le hace perder todo lo que le importa, por lo que al conseguirse con un amigo del ejército que tiene una empresa privada de seguridad, toma el trabajo de guardaespalda de una reportera que va al país a entrevistarse con el dictador que le arruino la vida. Allí vemos un golpe de estado contra el tirano, teniendo que Pettis recobrar su instinto para salvar a la periodista y al dictador, conociendo más a fondo a este último, demostrando con su carisma y decisiones tomadas, como se mantienen estos en el poder, algo que comparando con la dictadura venezolana, puede llegar a tener muchas similitudes por su trato con la oposición y demás organismos o personas poderosas de su país.

   That miserable life makes him lose everything that matters to him, so when he meets a friend from the army who has a private security company, he takes the job of bodyguard for a reporter who goes to the country to interview the dictator who ruined him. life. There we see a coup d'état against the tyrant, with Pettis having to recover his instinct to save the journalist and the dictator, getting to know the latter more thoroughly, demonstrating with his charisma and decisions made, how they remain in power, something Compared to the Venezuelan dictatorship, it may have many similarities due to its treatment with the opposition and other powerful organizations or people in its country.

   

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   Una idea peligrosa que no me gusto para nada de la pelicula es el intento de romantizar a estos despiadados, ya que luego de ver como el pueblo lo odia y escuchar algunas de sus excentricidades, por cuestiones del desarrollo de la pelicula llegamos a la aldea donde nació, viendo que estan sumergidos en la pobreza y pese a esto lo siguen queriendo. A partir de aquí su imagen cambia por la de alguien que de "verdad" le importa su pueblo y muchas de sus decisiones fueron para salvar los recursos de su país y que eventualmente el los llevaría a un estado más prospero, pintándolo como una especie de salvador, algo similar a lo que se hizo con la imagen de Chavez en mi pais.

   A dangerous idea that I didn't like at all about the movie is the attempt to romanticize these ruthless people, since after seeing how the town hates him and hearing some of his eccentricities, due to the development of the movie we arrive at the village where was born, seeing that they are immersed in poverty and despite this they continue to love him. From here his image changes to that of someone who "truly" cares about his people and many of his decisions were to save the resources of his country and that he would eventually lead them to a more prosperous state, painting him as a kind of Salvador, something similar to what was done with the image of Chavez in my country.

   La trama y la historia son muy sencillas, un trío con personalidades muy variadas y con objetivos que chocan entre ellos, deben apoyarse para sobrevivir en la selva de un grupo de asesinos profesionales, siendo John Cena el típico personaje a prueba de todo, muchas veces con el poder del guión para salvarse de la muerte, así como ayudados de la pésima puntería de sus contrapartes. Al final todo se resuelve, y el presidente hace un referéndum así no más, que al parecer ganó sin muchos inconvenientes, volviendo al punto de partida nuevamente, aunque esta vez Pettits se ganó unos cuantos milloncitos por ser un héroe de la patria.

   The plot and story are very simple, a trio with very varied personalities and with objectives that collide with each other, they must support each other to survive in the jungle of a group of professional assassins, John Cena being the typical character who is proof against everything, many times with the power of the script to save themselves from death, as well as aided by the terrible aim of their counterparts. In the end everything is resolved, and the president holds a referendum just like that, which apparently he won without many problems, returning to the starting point again, although this time Pettits earned a few million for being a hero of the country.

   

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   Las actuaciones son normales, nada demasiado llamativo, siendo para mi el mejor Juan Pablo Raba como el presidente del país sudamericano, siendo el que más carisma aporto y dándole esa característica de los dictadores modernos y típicos de nuestra región. Donde si veo que no les alcanzo el presupuesto fue en los efectos especiales, pero peor aún fueron los trajes de utileria, muy básicos y con detalles nada trabajos, cosa que por momento me llegaron a dar risa.

   The performances are normal, nothing too striking, for me the best is Juan Pablo Raba as the president of the South American country, being the one who brings the most charisma and giving him that characteristic of the modern and typical dictators of our region. Where I do see that the budget was not enough was in the special effects, but even worse were the prop costumes, very basic and with no work details, which at the moment made me laugh.

   En conclusion, esta cinta no es la peor que he visto, pero tampoco podría decir que es buena, por momentos llega a alargarse más de la cuenta, quitándole importancia a varias de las secuencias que vemos, de igual forma los argumentos y como se lleva la historia no me parecieron nada bien, y la conclusión es aún peor, por lo que más allá de permitirme procrastinar un poco, no tiene nada especialmente llamativo, es finalmente solo una película más olvidable, llamandome la atencion que no sea hecha por un compañia tipo Netflix para seguir aumentando su catálogo.

   In conclusion, this film is not the worst that I have seen, but I couldn't say that it is good either, at times it goes on longer than necessary, downplaying the importance of several of the sequences that we see, as well as the plots and how they are carried out. I didn't think the story was good at all, and the conclusion is even worse, so beyond allowing me to procrastinate a little, it doesn't have anything particularly striking, it's ultimately just a more forgettable film, calling my attention that it isn't made by a company like Netflix to continue increasing its catalog.

   

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   Mi calificación para esta película / My rating for this movie:

   4.0 / 10.0

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3. ›Freelance (film): I like John Cena, but this just isn't very good@netflixr909d

   I've got a soft spot for John Cena even though as a wrestler I wasn't much of a fan of his character. I feel as though he has a lot of potential to be a good actor and the few serious roles that he has taken on such as his minor character in The Wall show that he does have some acting chops. Unfortunately, he seems to be frequently chosen for "big silly guy" roles rather than giving him something a bit more challenging that can get him outside of the usual "hey, I'm really big and tough, but also a sensitive guy" roles that he always seems to get.

   For whatever reason, Hollywood tends to not use him for anything else normally and this is exactly what Freelance is. Had it not been for the fact that I really want him to do well, I probably would have turned this off before it was over. After I finished it (and it ends abruptly) I really felt as though I had wasted 90 minutes of my life.

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   So the story here is that Mason Pettits (Cena) is an elite soldier whose army unit was ambushed while invading the fictional country of Paladonia to assassinate their President Juan Venegas. We see a lot of the opening sequences in first person so that they can describe a growing up Mason without needing to find extra actors to portray Cena at various stages in his life. I don't recall this being done in very many films and I thought it was actually a pretty creative way to save money and time because let's be honest here, it's probably pretty tough to find someone that is going to physically represent a gigantic person like Cena throughout his life.

   After the ambush, Mason's spine and back is injured and he is released from the military to continue pursuing his career as a lawyer, which he is successful at, but really doesn't enjoy. He also doesn't have a great home life because he feels as though he "settled" for this life rather than it being what he actually wanted. This point is pushed home by his rather "average looking" wife and the fact that he drives around in a minivan, dropping his daughter off at school, and going to work with a look of constant disdain on his face.

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   One day an old Army buddy, Sebastian Earle, who is played surprisingly by a very young and almost certainly has had a lot of work done on him Christian Slater, and is invited to his compound where Sebastian runs a private security contracting company that operates all over the world. Earle offers Cena a "puff piece" job where he will serve as private security for a reporter who is going to Paladonia to interview the very Presidente that he was meant to assassinate all those years ago. He has conflicts of interest of course because he harbors bad feelings towards the dictator and feels as though he is responsible for the death of his friends as well as ruining his own life. He initially refuses the offer but we always knew he was going to take it.

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   When they meet Presidente Juan Venegas, Mason is surprised a bit by how charming and friendly he is, and appears to genuinely be a good person who really cares about his country. He is not the ruthless overlord that Mason had expected him to be and for the most part, the people, especially the people in the countryside, seem to genuinely like him.

   Of course there would be no story here if the President's convoy wasn't ambushed and his own security detail completely taken out allowing for Mason to take charge as the sole protector of both of them.

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   Inside of all of the action there is a story that I think was kind of important about how Mason's reasons for hating the President/Dictator were misguided and the ambush of his Army unit was actually an inside job perpetrated by his own country in order to attempt to destabilize the country of Paladonia. For me, I think that these sorts of things actually do happen around the world when certain richer countries are interested in the natural resources of poorer countries, so they do covert ops like the one Mason was involved in to attempt to steal the natural resources of those poorer countries.

   In this film the "bad guys" are actually South Africans, exclusively white South Africans mind you, that are behind the attempted assassination of the Dictator in order to force the signing of mining rights for the natural resources of his country. I don't feel as though this particular spoiler really matters all that much because this movie is terrible and I don't think you should watch it anyway.

   It is basically just the same sort of movie that we expect from action films repackaged and starring John Cena instead of Dwayne Johnson for once. There is absolutely nothing original in this film and while some of the action is good, it is clear that with their $40 million budget that they weren't really able to even do this very well.

   It bombed at the box office and after an opening weekend of less than $1 million, they transitioned to streaming services very rapidly.

   Perhaps this can be a message to the powers that be in the film-making world that the audience simply isn't interested in seeing the same films repackaged and re-released over and over again. I would like to think that the global audience is in a sort of revolt at the moment and that we are voting with our wallets.

   Should I watch it?

   I'm going to do something I rarely do and straight out say that "no" you should not see this. The message about the destabilization of poor countries by large and powerful nations is a good attribute of this movie, but that is basically where it all ends. The story is predictable, the characters are hokey, and the action, even though this is almost exclusively an action film, is average at best. The only reason why I didn't turn it off was because I wanted it to be better than it was and I was in bed, away from distractions like my phone. There isn't a great deal of good to be said about this movie and if I could go back in time I would have just closed my eyes and gotten an additional 90 minutes of sleep instead.

   _{currently the only legal way of obtaining Freelance is on VUDU and Amazon Prime}

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