Close
Director: Vickey Jewson
Year:
2019
Rating: 5.5
Well, the film begins with a cover version of Kate
Bush's Hounds of Love, one of my favorite songs - at least her version. And
it has a good start but over the course of the movie it just kept slipping
down in my estimation. Which is too bad because there was potential here but
a fairly hackneyed script with dialogue that should have been shot on sight
just never allows it to take off. It stars Noomi Rapace again going totally
unglam - I don't know if she can do glamorous actually - as a tough kick
ass bodyguard. Her credentials are established right off as she takes out
a few Islamic fighters in Iraq or Afghanistan who ambush her and two journalists.
Back in England she joins a bodyguard company and is assigned to protect
a rich snot nose teenage heiress who would fit better in Clueless than here.
They go off to Morocco to stay in a super isolated secure house with even
more bodyguards. As it turns out not so secure as a group of men invade it
and murder nearly everyone but bodyguard and girl who are able to escape.
So far so good, but then the film gets really stupid as it purposely leads
you down one path and then switches up but none of it makes sense. At all.
And it becomes cringeworthy at times as bodyguard and girl bond - You trust
a friend - we are not friends - I do care for you - sort of thing. People
are trying to kill you. Focus. Bond after they are all dead.
I can say no wrong about Noomi though - it is not her fault that they make
her say trite pablum - in the action scenes she is very good and I continue
to appreciate her serious approach. As in her film Unlocked, she creates a
character I would like to see more of. She just needs a better film. Maybe
in Sweden.
