Defendor 2009
This is like a super hero movie which an Iranian film maker would have made realistic, undramatic and hence not very entertaining it's not for the kids like super hero movies usually are there is a hooker there is consumption narcotics sex violence and a very simple minded but stupidly brave and naive superhero
Woody Harrelson as the super hero is as usual awesome he's the slow man who holds traffic signs during day but becomes a super hero with a costume at night he uses marbles and other assortment of things as weapons and isn't scared of bullets as he feels they will just bounce off him he's out to find and eliminate Captain Industry, a fictional villain from the comics he used to read as a kid but who he believes is real and the cause of his mother's death. He is told that the local drug lord is Captain Industry and so he sets out single handedly to battle the drug cartel in the process he gets beaten up many times but doesn't give up soon he starts to have a following amongst the common people as a real super hero might have
My problem with this film is its changing genres at moments it seems funny but then it becomes action then sad then funny again and so on and so forth in the end Woody Harrelson doesn't really achieve much as a super hero, getting bashed up often and what I don't understand is when the bad guys know who he is and where he stays why don't they just kill him? Doesn't make sense to me as the corrupt cop knows about him
Anyway that aside, it's still a slow movie which can't make up its mind what it is a comedy, an action or a spoof in the end it just remains nothing just emotional movie about a dumb super hero
This is like a super hero movie which an Iranian film maker would have made realistic, undramatic and hence not very entertaining it's not for the kids like super hero movies usually are there is a hooker there is consumption narcotics sex violence and a very simple minded but stupidly brave and naive superhero
Woody Harrelson as the super hero is as usual awesome he's the slow man who holds traffic signs during day but becomes a super hero with a costume at night he uses marbles and other assortment of things as weapons and isn't scared of bullets as he feels they will just bounce off him he's out to find and eliminate Captain Industry, a fictional villain from the comics he used to read as a kid but who he believes is real and the cause of his mother's death. He is told that the local drug lord is Captain Industry and so he sets out single handedly to battle the drug cartel in the process he gets beaten up many times but doesn't give up soon he starts to have a following amongst the common people as a real super hero might have
My problem with this film is its changing genres at moments it seems funny but then it becomes action then sad then funny again and so on and so forth in the end Woody Harrelson doesn't really achieve much as a super hero, getting bashed up often and what I don't understand is when the bad guys know who he is and where he stays why don't they just kill him? Doesn't make sense to me as the corrupt cop knows about him
Anyway that aside, it's still a slow movie which can't make up its mind what it is a comedy, an action or a spoof in the end it just remains nothing just emotional movie about a dumb super hero
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