Review: Netflix's TheOldGuard often feels brand-new. Read rilaws's take:
What a cursed fantasy agelessness is, one reiterated and reimagined many times since Bram Stoker introduced modern audiences to florid psychosexual vampirism. To be immortally young is to float above the petty ephemera of most people’s short lives, to consider a bigger picture—one both grand and terrifying. There’s an allure to these stories—wouldn’t it be such a freeing joy to know we are eternal?—and also a comfort taken in the undying’s melancholy.
I’m always drawn to stories about people who can’t die, who roam the Earth for centuries, weary of the world but somehow still engaged, curious about what may lie around the next corner of time. Which is one reason why so much of the new Netflix action film,, works well on me. The movie positions its team of almost sorta immortals as both avenging angels roaming the world doing justice and ancient sad sacks grown tired with their mission.
Prince-Bythewood is good with the action stuff as well. There are plenty of bone-crunching fights and-ian close-up gun battles to satisfy those simply looking for a visceral surge. These scenes are balletically performed by Theron, whosetraining has not faded from her muscle memory.
There are also some more than subtle indications that Theron’s character is not straight herself, something that will perhaps be explored more in subsequent films. is the kind of summer tentpole movie many people are starved for at this point in the COVID shutdown, so I assume it will be popular enough for Netflix to green-light a sequel.
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