What Is ‘Old Guy’ About?
It doesn’t help that the writers decide to kick things off with some eye-rollingly bad generational observations.
The only Bond villain to appear in multiple films might as well have skipped the last two.
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Waltz’s half-working hand is a continuing problem…until suddenly it isn’t.
(A better film would have made a bigger moment out of that.)
They argue about morality, but it all feels like window dressing applied to overly generic action beats.
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Liu has also excelled in Tarantino’s world before.
That leaves Hoffman, on whom the jury is still out.
But there is nothing inOld Guythat indicates he can suitably follow in his dad’s footsteps.
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Philip would takea nothing role inTwisterand still have people talking about it 30 years later.
Cooper takes a nothing role here but can’t manage to elevate it the least bit.
Wihlborg doesn’t seem threatening.
Old Guy, directed by Simon West, follows aging contract killer Danny Dolinski, who is revitalized by a new assignment to train Gen Z newcomer Wihlborg. While grappling with the challenges of mentoring a prodigious young assassin, Dolinski seeks to win the affection of club manager Anata.
He doesn’t seem like a prodigy.
He doesn’t seem psychopathic.
West is one of our better B-action-movie craftsmen, so at leastOld Guyslooks like a real movie.
Yes, this movie is a bit padded, even at 93 minutes.
The genre always carries on.
