Fun Groundhog Day/Edge of Tomorrow style romp with some flaws *spoilers*
Frank Grillo seems like a nice tough guy and good actor and he was great in Marvel movies. I thought he was great as a commando type personality and stereotype. He was good in the Purge movie too.
I was surprised to see his produced movie Boss Level and so saw the movie.
Overall, I think he got a great cast of actors/actresses and they all did a fabulous job and it felt like a higher quality production and elevated it far above a typical B-movie.
The acting was top notch for this sort of a movie, the pacing was great and the dialogs were adequate and above all, the plot was scifi but good for the plot.
The lone biggest gripe for me is the num of loops. It would've been best if they had no counter or a counter in the tens of thousands or hundreds or millions. A little bit of less ego for Frank Grillo would've been great imo.
So he saves her on the very first attempt? That was kinda silly.
And the open ending was also lame. I mean, it's your movie, your story. Just end it. So obviously he survives but we don't know if he can continue to loop now at will or go anywhere and redo time or if he's been removed of the time reset ability or whatnot.
It also would've been great had they gone the other amazing movie, Source Code, route where it was spawning parallel universes and he could go to those universes that still exist and not wiped out (albeit I liked the single universe, single timeline idea and others are pruned on their own).
The guest cast was great from Naomi Watts (so pretty), Mel Gibson, Michelle Yeoh and whoever else. The sword Chinese woman was also fun and over the top silly but memorable. The right hand henchman was also done well (I just remembered that he's Will Sasso from MadTV. Wow) and I appreciate that it wasn't just 3-4 baddies but an actual building with tons of people and army types and a believable setup with hundreds of people involved and few with top security clearance. However, the lack of other scientists and personnel was clearly silly. Also, a bit silly how she doesn't know she's being tapped and recorded and monitored and does it anyway nor how Mel Gibson just simply lets her do it, along with him seeing her take his DNA/hair etc. right there and put it in the Osiris Spindle.
Coming back to the biggest gripe, I didn't like that he had only like 250 or so loops where he became an expert at multiple changing routines and needed only like 5-10 classes to become a sword maestro to timing his jumps perfectly to anticipating everything precisely.
It really should've been like x1000 for it to be believable imo.
Also, I thought the sword chick avoiding the bullets meant she's in her own time loop too but it wasn't to be. It would've been a great movie if everyone has their own time loops going on now because a few people in that area were exposed and affected. It would be a confusing movie to make but us scifi fans would absolutely love it if done well.
Overall, fun great romp. 8/10