Ad Vitam

Entertaining action with skillful camera work

Quite a good movie with decent dialogue and a script that's fairly easy to follow - even with the frequent cuts/flashbacks to the past. Some of the action is flagrantly bombastic, but it doesn't destroy the positives of the film.

The only real woke would be some DEI token characters and the ridiculous scene at the beginning of the 9 months pregnant wife
throwing around and beating up large trained male police officers. It's only one scene but still dumb. Unfortunately the movie just
isn't that great. The story is very cliché, it's the basic good guy has evidence on someone so he's in hiding from a group of people
while trying to blend in. Except here he's doing a terrible job. I mean your apt has been broken into twice in 2 weeks and they try
to kill you so obviously know where you are. He make no attempt to leave, secure the apt, take any kind of precautions or even tell
his wife what is happening. He just goes about his day waiting for them to come back. The acting isn't bad but the action scenes range
from decent to comedic with some bad writing. There is a rooftop chase that is very slow boring and uneventful. There is a scene in the
middle of nowhere with the hero and villain shooting at each other when 2 random kids on dirt bikes come out of the woods. The villain stops
and uses the last of his ammo to fire at them for no apparent reason other than poor writing to segway into a dirt bike chase. Said chase is
also rather boring and leads into an embarrassingly comedic paragliding sequence. Even the conspiracy at the center of the entire plot is a
massive stretch in credibility. It's really more of a 2.5 but I upgraded to 3 because it is somewhat watchable if there's nothing else or you need background noise.