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Time and again, Grillo surprises and delights, no matter the creative or financial restraints placed upon him. Good on the director, though, for giving the world more Grillo: The man is one of todayвЂ™s best tough-guy actors, even if he hasnвЂ™t quite broken out of the low-budget arena. Ultimately, GibsonвЂ™s presence seems more like a thing to be overcome than embraced by Carnahan, who is far more interested in calling back to the madcap days of his 2006 thriller SmokinвЂ™ Aces and its roster of collector-card contract killers. Semi-spoiler alert, but it turns out that GibsonвЂ™s bad guy is involved in all the filmвЂ™s time-travel muckery in order to prevent, um, the rise of Adolf Hitler? If that werenвЂ™t overcompensating enough, Carnahan has Roy at one point yell, вЂњThatвЂ™s for the Jews!вЂќ after shooting an anti-Semitic assassin. But I guess Carnahan should earn a teensy tiny pat on the back for at least acknowledging the performerвЂ™s pariah-level presence, even in a backwards-offensive way. On that Gibson issue: Yes, IвЂ™m still puzzled as to why the uber-problematic actor keeps getting work, especially when he invests so little energy to the proceedings. The time-loop shenanigans have something to do with Roy's scientist ex, played by Naomi Watts. WhatвЂ™s worse: Every day begins with the same colourful band of wackos (a samurai-sword lady, a dwarf fond of grenades) targeting him for death, and every day ends when he inevitably gets stabbed, shot, decapitated or worse. Our here-we-go-again hero this round is Roy (Frank Grillo), a grizzled ex-Special Forces type who is forced to endure the same brutal morning over and over again. Instead, Boss Level is a rock-solid B-movie, with the вЂњBвЂќ also standing this time for вЂњBeen There, Blown Up That.вЂќ Tom CruiseвЂ™s Edge of Tomorrow), it is also not as dГ©jГ -vu dull as, say, Love Wedding Repeat and ARQ. Although not hitting the zany genre highs of Happy Death Day 2U and Live Die Repeat (a.k.a. I suppose you could do worse, though, than be destined to rewatch Boss Level until the end of your days. Or at least until filmmakers come up with a new conceit to repeatedly swipe from one another.

#Arq movie review movie#

That is: There are now so many movies about characters reliving the same day over and over again вЂ“ from Groundhog Day to last yearвЂ™s Palm Springs вЂ“ that it feels like we, the audience, are destined to rewatch the same kind of movie over and over again to the point of uncontrollable sustainability. With Joe CarnahanвЂ™s new action comedy, Boss Level, we have reached a moment of time-loop cinema singularity.