Those Who Wish Me Dead stars Angelina Jolie as a fire jumper, someone who jumps via parachute into deadly bushfires but she is haunted by one that didn’t go the way she thought it would and is now in a firetower looking for fires in the nearby forest, meanwhile 2 deadly assassins (Aiden Gillen and Nicholas Hoult) are after a young boy who runs into the forest after his father exposes some shady dealings so now the chase is on.
And this is quite possibly the worst movie I’ve seen so far this year, this is not a good movie at all I felt and there are a couple of reasons:
- Firstly the thrills aren’t really there, I didn’t really care about Angelina and the little boy because it feels like their storylines for the most part don’t really mesh together very well, they feel like 2 separate strands of stories that have been mashed together in multiple script drafts and it feels like a very painful transition.
- Secondly I didn’t really care about the assassins as villains, Gillen aka Littlefinger from Game of Thrones and Hoult are good actors but here they seem to just randomly open fire on anyone and everyone that even dares to say hello to them as a friendly driver driving along the forest and at one point they blow up a house in the middle of a Florida street and I’m pretty sure someone would have noticed a house blow up real good as it was in broad daylight, 10,000 Thundering Typhoons they are silly for no real reason.
- And lastly to come back to an earlier point, the firefighting and the assassin storylines could’ve been interesting on their own as separate films in their own right but here they don’t click together and try as the screenwriters might they couldn’t do it and as a result of this there is a waste of a great cast not just Littlefinger and Hoult but also Jolie and Jon Bernthal who I always enjoy seeing pop up in movies but here is given little to do and as for Jolie it’s great to see her again playing a tomboy heroine with a boozy edge and she’s got the presence still but the script lets her down and it’s a real shame, hopefully the Eternals will be a better film for her later this year.
And so that was Those Who Wish Me Dead and Those Should Seek Out Backdraft instead as that film was about fire and firefighters while also having a mystery in it as well and its much better than this pile of poo, 1 out of 5.
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