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1.8 KiB
44 lines
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title = "Unhinged (2020)"
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date = 2021-03-28
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "movies:2021", "russell crowe", "stars:2"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10059518/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0):
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After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes
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the target of his rage.
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The movie starts with a Crowe of the size of a Goodman attacking a couple with
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a hammer and then burning a house. After that, we switch for a family of a
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disorganized mother (Caren Pistorius), who just got fired and it is late to
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take her kid to school. In a traffic light, a truck -- later shown as being
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driven by Crowe -- doesn't move when the lights turn green, she presses the car
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horn too strongly, the guy on the truck gets pissed, gets no "I'm sorry" and
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decides to show what a "bad day" is. Then the chase starts.
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... and that's basically it, and you can already figure out the end by the
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simple fact of how they shown Crowe as a bad guy and Pistorius as a
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bad-luck-mother.
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What would be the main points of the movie, the chases in the streets, actually
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are very few and not that bad, accept that Crowe manages to create the worst
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case scenarios -- like a cop truck being smashed by a concrete truck -- out of
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pure luck -- or lack of luck for Pistorius, I don't know.
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So you have the killings, which also seem like Crowe managed to think and plan
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all of them in advance, instead of being a spur of the moment. How? No idea.
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Actually, the whole thing is weird. I mean, ok, there is the road rage, but
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what broke Crowe in such way that he would kill people to torment a woman
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because a honk? Why he burned the house in the very beginning of the movie?
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Nothing is said about this and he's shown simply as "bad guy".
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While Crowe is still Crowe and delivers, the plot is too magical to actually
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make sense.
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