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Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck
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- Chooses the Kevin Costner award for worst American accent and gives it to Gerard Butler, whose Scottish accent falls out with every line. — Craig Horlbeck
- The hosts wonder whether he is even meant to be American, as a CIA operative. — Bill Simmons
- A speaker says actors should just keep their normal accent, citing Chris Hemsworth's Brooklyn accent in Blackhat and Costner in Robin Hood. — Bill Simmons
Recasting Couch
Adam Driver as Hathaway; Jon Bernthal as the hacker villain; Hemsworth with Australian accent
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- DiCaprio is considered too old by 2015, while keeping Hemsworth with an Australian accent is defended. — Bill Simmons
- Hathaway could have entered prison thin and built his physique there; the role still needs physicality. — Bill Simmons
- Jeremy Renner around 2009 is an appealing possibility, but he might already be too old for the 2015 film. — Bill Simmons
- Miles Teller is considered too young for a character presumed to be in his mid-thirties; Gyllenhaal is floated. — Bill Simmons
- Adam Driver emerges as the preferred alternative because he can plausibly be both a hacker and physically formidable. — Bill Simmons
- Jon Bernthal is proposed as the hacker villain, though the discussion acknowledges his negative experience with Mann and questions his plausibility as a hacker. — Bill Simmons
What’s Aged the Worst?
Unrealism critiques; Hemsworth’s self-assessment and accent; good-man prison trope; repair-worker insult; dense plot and audio; thin final villain; Facebook grievance
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- Criticisms that the cyberattack premise was unrealistic are considered to have aged poorly. — Bill Simmons
- Hemsworth’s dismissal of his own performance is rejected; his accent is criticized, and simply retaining an Australian accent is proposed. — Bill Simmons
- The stock action-film backstory of a good man imprisoned for injuring someone while protecting another person is criticized as too convenient. — Bill Simmons
- The film insults television and garage-door repair workers through Hathaway’s dismissive dialogue. — Bill Simmons
- The dense plot, jumpy explanatory dialogue, and inconsistent audio mix are criticized. — Bill Simmons
- The final hacker villain arrives too late and lacks a developed biography or convincing motive beyond money as a scoreboard. — Chris Ryan
- Publicly venting a professional grievance on Facebook is added as an aged-worst choice. — Bill Simmons
What’s Aged the Best?
Expert prisoner; investigative release; hacker reversal; Davis; McCallany; city view; riverbed revelation; Kassar; Black Widow; escape warning; Dawai; helicopters; cooking shot; magazine armor
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- A prisoner with unparalleled specialized skills is praised as a compelling premise. — Chris Ryan
- Releasing a criminal because only he can solve the case is another favored trope. — Bill Simmons
- A seemingly invulnerable hacker discovering that another hacker can foil him is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Davis’s commanding persona and confrontation with Gary are praised; she has stronger chemistry with Hemsworth than his romantic partner does.
- McCallany’s Jessup fills the reliable, forceful supporting role associated with Sizemore, a marshal willing to bend rules.
- The couple looking out over Los Angeles before intimacy recalls an earlier De Niro–Eady scene. — Bill Simmons
- Hathaway assembling the clues in a dry Indonesian riverbed recalls Mann’s recurring protagonist-revelation scenes. — Chris Ryan
- Kassar’s bald, bearded, tattooed, shirtless, smoking villain image checks every box. — Bill Simmons
- The Black Widow name for technology and the instruction that the hero must run are favored thriller devices. — Bill Simmons
- Dawai’s coolness, bilingual dialogue, and performance are praised. — Chris Ryan
- The large helicopters are admired. — Bill Simmons
- A low-angle Hong Kong cooking shot gives the film a brief travel-food-show quality. — Chris Ryan
- Improvised magazine body armor is another affirmative choice. — Chris Ryan
Picking Nits
Unestablished fighting skills; elaborate hideout; exposed gunfighters; handsome hacker; distant dialogue; helicopter conversation; precise wound preparation; replaced dialogue
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- An early prison fight is proposed to establish Hathaway’s combat ability before the restaurant brawl. — Bill Simmons
- The elaborate basement tunnel and booby traps prompt questions about who could construct them discreetly. — Bill Simmons
- Barrett and Jessup fail to take defensive cover in the shootout. — Bill Simmons
- Hemsworth is considered implausibly handsome for the hacker role. — Bill Simmons
- The final confrontation’s dialogue could not plausibly be heard across a loud cultural event at such a distance. — Bill Simmons
- The helicopter conversation about Hathaway dating Dawai’s sister, supposedly on a private channel, is criticized. — Chris Ryan
- The couple seems prepared for the exact wounds Hathaway will receive, with supplies, scarf, and magazine armor enabling his survival. — Chris Ryan
- Replacing dialogue across the opening 25 minutes to support the reordered plot is criticized as especially odd for a $70 million film. — Chris Ryan
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