Sharp tongued, acerbic personality, haughty impatient, just the kind of guy I’m likely to get along with. WTF!? The kid puts a slice of cake on the table for Sam, for her birthday & he asks “WTF is this?” Then she answers its her birthday & then he knocks it off the table & smashes it to the ground.
Douchewad. I could never get along with someone like that no matter what his reasons are.
One of my biggest gripes in this movie.
Considering he is supposed to be CIA SAD/SOG, he is portrayed horribly wrong. He's abusive, hostile, emotionally unstable and nothing I have seen hinted that he's a capable leader at all. I had zero respect for him.
The emotional issues also go for LAuren Cohen's character, she was insufferable and Cohen was not convincing at all. She had this "look I'm tough!" look on her face but it was all fake.
In reality, these guys are highly intelligent, highly capable, emotionally stable and know how to lead.
The only convincing and authentic character was Sam/Ronda Rousey. She was amazing. She owned every scene she was in, every move she made was real, she dominated the room (beginning scene) because she did not have to fake it. She has the confidence, presence and... she actually is a warrior. And it showed. Her gun related stuff was on point as well, like trigger discipline etc.
Loved her.
Rest of the movie is garbage.
Rousey in my opinion was the worst part of the movie. Her acting was terrible and she was for all purposes being herself, so I could not buy for one moment the character she was suppose to be playing. Also they kill her off half way through the movie probably, because she was the least talented of the cast. She can fight, but so can Iko Uwais and he can also act.
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She was the most natural of the cast, that's the opposite of what you just claimed.
I think you fail to disconnect the real life fighter from the movie character, frankly that sounds like a you-issue.
I have nothing to do with anything MMA, so for me she was a fresh face and it worked perfectly.
Her flat delivery. Failing to give her character anything (I actually no nothing about her character where as with Wahlberg and Cohan I actually do). How was she natural? She seemed completely stiff and uncomfortable.
While I do particularly care for Rousey due to other issues I won't get into now, I went in hoping I was wrong. There is no "you-issue" as you claim, I just thought casting her was more of a gimmick considering she did not give a good performance (at least when Soderbergh cast Gina Carano in Haywire, she actually attempted to build her character and did not do a bad job).
You are aware that whatever the character is and how far it is being build, or not, is up to the production team - not the actor?
She portrayed a focused, determined and professional operator, and she nailed it. Her movement was on point, her body language dominated the room while Cohen stumbled around trying to pretend she's got balls.
Her and Wahlberg were complete psycho-wrecks, completely unbelievable considering their jobs and positions, but it's not like the movie tried to portray the CIAs ground branch in any authentic light (which is fine, it's just another action movie instead).
I guess in the end we can only agree to disagree on her performance.
I guess I can see middle ground. She lacks much in the way of "character" and emotional affect, but it works in the movie because that's kind of what you expect from a CIA ground branch operator. If her character required much more in terms of depth, she might have been in trouble. It's kind of the same logic as Schwarzenegger in the Terminator.
In my mind the biggest problem with her in the movie was not having her do any hand-hand combat. At least let her do what she's actually known for.
It’s certainly a choice for Mark Wahlberg to play it like that. But yeah, he comes off as unlikable.
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