Paradise City (2022)
4/10
Great Cast That's Been Criminally Misused
11 February 2023
This movie had such a great cast of popular actors, mainly Bruce Willis, John Travolta and Stephen Dorff. But the story lacked direction and material so much.

Some of the actors were just baaaad, like the girl cop who eventually falls for the protagonist in the most cliched way. She could not convince a bunch of children with that acting, she was overdoing everything and her expressions were exaggerating most of the time.

Also the guy who usually executes the hits and the other muscular henchman had me rolling my eyes every time they said something, the way they carried themselves made them look like robots mimicking human behaviour.

So many moments didn't make any sense and weren't convincing at all. When the girl took the protagonist to investigate the beach and recover some materials while wearing a tight pink bikini.. That's like going to work wearing small shorts and a tank top. And Although they were at the beach obviously but the shots and focus of the camera was more like a modelling scene for the girl than about following the story. Most of the close shots or scenes of her were focusing on her body in a way that would throw you off from following what the scene is about.

And a lot of the other scenes seemed more like a show of hot and sexy people pretending to know what they're doing and they were more like modelling than acting.

The cinematography in general was so bad and I lost track and interest of the story before half way through the movie.

The sequences and events were not engaging and the whole story itself could've been handled much better.

I only kept watching this movie till the end cause I like Bruce Willis, John Travolta and Stephen Dorff, but they've been criminally misused in this film.
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