What’s Aged the Best?
Mexico City; score; Marc Anthony; swimming; The Voice; La Hermandad; weapons; memory camera; golf simulator
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- Aged best: the alarming opening kidnapping statistics immediately hook a viewer; these are film graphics, not independently verified statistics.
- The opening kidnapping card is compared with Sicario and Den of Thieves cards.
- Mexico City is praised as an action setting, compared with Brazil in Fast Five and City of God.
- The score discussion corrects the implication that Reznor composed all of it: Harry Gregson-Williams handles much of the score.
- Marc Anthony makes the interview with Creasy believable.
- Samuel being pushed by his wife and lawyer is praised.
- Samuel initially seeming likable makes his betrayal more painful.
- Fanning’s swimming is an aged-best choice.
- Scott films the children’s meet with unusually intense sports coverage.
- A niece’s swim meet reportedly inspired Scott to include one.
- The Voice is admired as a kidnapping antagonist’s name.
- A Dallas/book-depository kidnapping film is jokingly proposed.
- La Hermandad is admired as an evil-organization name, while translating it as brotherhood makes the explanation redundant.
- The weapons-shopping list and warning about war are admired.
- Watching Denzel choose weapons remains enjoyable despite real-world gun concerns.
- Giving Samuel one bullet and telling him to do the right thing is admired as a grim movie moment, not personal advice.
- Camera work represents Creasy’s memory and threat perception.
- Reconstructing the kidnapping by revisiting the site is compared with Blow Out.
- Samuel's golf simulator is an admired prop, with its short physical ball travel explained.