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From Pierre Morel, director of Taken, From Paris with Love, and the truly brutal Peppermint, Freelance continues the trend of bland action movies bland and ordinary.. Freelancing seems cheap, and even though this movie puts Cena, Brie, and Raba on a chase for their lives across Paldonia, it still looks like it was shot against backdrops and green screens.. The action is never exciting, the jokes never end and the pacing is all over the place.. Freelance took a ridiculous amount of time to get going, as he ran through Cena's Mason complaining about where his life was before losing us in Paldonia.. Morel never tries to make it the great adventure it was intended to be..
But writer Jacob Lentz is also largely to blame for this disaster, with weird pacing, terrible humor, and an overly convoluted narrative that heads into some extremely questionable territory.. Freelance fundamentally feels like an amalgamation of several different ideas, none of which amount to much at all.. It begins with a surprisingly mean-spirited sense of humor, as Mason jokes about how his suburban life would probably lead him to have an affair, and rolling his eyes at having to drive his daughter to school.. Once the journey through Paldonia begins, Freelance becomes even more muddled, as this sometimes tries to be a half-assed love triangle between three characters that only show romantic interest occasionally, or if there's nothing else to do within the scene.. Sometimes, Mason seems completely in control of the situation he's thrown into, and other times, he's like a little kid uncertain how to act.. There's not even a hint of real humor, except for President Venegas's constant jokes about Mason's last name..
But what is most puzzling is the excessive complexity with which Lentz tries to make what should be a relatively simple concept.. Instead of turning to action or comedy, Freelance stops to repeatedly return to this story's laborious plot.. There are a few minutes where Slater's character tries to convince Cena's bricklayer that he should do this, which, as we've seen, is his dream job.. But worst of all is how Lentz is trying to create a labyrinthine politics in Paldonia, with mercenaries, dictators and corporate-sponsored coups.. With all the ups and downs, the overthrow of governments and shifts of power, dictators become friends, violence becomes justified and Freelance finally becomes a hail of bullets that never feels feels earned, thematically appropriate or as if this whole setup is necessary for what purpose.. feels like walking through the forest..
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