I caught up on some TV this weekend, including a movie I’d had on “My List” for some time. I liked it, so I also watched the sequel that just came out this year. The basic setup follows some beings that don’t stay dead that act as basically the Immortal A-Team.
I didn’t realize that this was based on a five-issue Image comics series by Greg Rucka. (I need to go find it.) I just have one thing to say….
Charlize Theron. Wow. She is now 50 and she just might be the most incredible action star there is. There is not a lot of plot or backstory in the first movie–just go with it. The second movie fills it out some, but it suffers from being an obvious “middle movie”–here’s hoping there is an Old Guard 3!
I always have a quibble about something in the way that a movie might set up its universe and rules, and my quibble about this franchise is that I wanted just 1 minute on how they pay for/get supplies for all the weapons (and especially cars) they go through. They’re not shown stealing much, and as immortals it would be easy enough to have a throwaway line like “the power of compound interest” that would still at least acknowledge it!
However, even I wouldn’t let something like materiel get in the way of a couple of good popcorn flicks. At the slow rate that I go through My List, I hope the next movie in this series pops up when I’m ready for it.