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Tiny woman overpowers huge black guy...

Very dumb film...

Christian film...

The review above is accurate, except the totally untrue rating...

He is a shill...

Hollywood + anyone called Seth + 20s film + Spielberg = liberal trash

Anything Scientologist Marxist Moss is in is liberal...

Female warriors in Swiss Middle Ages... Muslims fighting alongside Christians...

Promotes pacifism toward killers...

The Wakanda of the chess world ...

They don't have heroes, so they invent them.
Steal them, actually.

The main character is, in my opinion, Bobby Fischer, with small boobs and a tight little arse. Also, strangely, less insane.

But basically stealing the life story of a straight white male, and reskinning it as a strong independent female. Lesbian, obviously. In the '60s. Which still happened more often than a woman dominating chess. For those not familiar: same feeling as those 90 pounds waifs beating up 250 pounds commandos.

It's a touchy subject with me, considering how 'they' have successfully erased (Pierre) Curie from history, and are trying cancel Watson & Crick to push (Rosalind) Franklin instead.


The show is well made. Very much so. Taylor-Joy is good, undoubtedly.

But it crosses its Is and dots its Ts. Every white male a combination of stupid, crass and 'oppressive'. Every female perfect, because of course.

It's a sad thing that, being late to the party (the Party?), I give this only a 3/5 woke score simply because no character spontaneously breaks into a song about the joy of socialism.
Well, I haven't watched to the end ...

Adkins falls short once more

As much as I like him, I have to admit Adkins will probably never star in a good movie.
Even the Undisputed flicks were all style and awkward substance.

Again, he proves he falls short as an actor. Not bad, just not good.
The actions scenes are competent albeit very artificial, as in 80s level of bad guys waiting for their turn to get punched in the face.
See the Terminator-like scene in the bar for an egregious example. The whole character is ludicrous, really. El Corvo. The Crow. Because why not.

The script itself is another throwback to the 80s. Crochet. More holes than matter. There are probably better written pornos out there. The filler between the money shots.

At least, the director of photography is having a blast, and it shows. The movie is probably a low budget endeavour (produced by Adkins and Zaror themselves), but it's simply gorgeous in a quite few scenes, and assuredly adequate the rest of the time.


As for wokeness, well, there's no message in here, political or otherwise. I suspect Adkins himself is quite left of center, but he keeps it under wraps. Male feminist ally, I would say. Disgraceful.

Still, he believes in equal opportunity face bashing: females get their noses kicked in the same way males do, quite similarly to Chinese movies of, well, the 80s. Actually, more so: the movie features several violent, close up female deaths, which must have Hollywood's collective pants in a bunch of knots.
Not advocating anything here, but at least it's realistic. Mindless killer is gonna mindlessly kill. Everyone. Not just white (mostly Hispanic here) males, as per usual American fare.

All-in-all a forgettable but somewhat enjoyable popcorn film. Could have been somewhat good for the paltry price of one decent screenwriter ...

Portrays sociopath gangsters as heroes, which has always been a liberal trope...

Doesn't even work as a biographical film because it is almost completely fictional with tons of lies...

Any film with skinny girls being tough military soldiers or assassins or whatever is a definite example of Liberal propaganda...