![]() ![]() ![]() As a pitch for the movie theaters, it’s compelling stuff. As a movie, Gemini Man is entertaining fluff. ![]() It’s clear quickly that what makes this film different isn’t the main character, another assassin with more notches than belt, but the filmmaking. When he’s not taking out terrorists, he’s enjoying Georgia’s filmmaking tax credits at the well-stocked bayou homestead where he contemplates the moral compromises that define him as a man and the beauty of his surroundings as rendered by Lee’s modified ARRI Alexa M camera. When we meet Smith, he has a very specific lifestyle. The list of high-friend count killers includes Neeson in Taken, Bronson/Statham in The Mechanic, Reeves in John Wick, Stallone in The Expendables and, now, Will Smith in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man. If action movies have taught us anything, it’s that hired killers would stagger under the weight of their guilt if it weren’t for the healthy, emotionally open relationships they maintain with their forty or fifty closest friends. ![]()
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