Don’t forget to fasten your seat belts, even if you’re in the back seat.
The main character (we’ll just call him the chauffeur for convenience) takes his son to his grandmother and runs to his wife, who is about to give birth, in Las Vegas at night. However, he is not destined to go beyond the hospital parking lot: there a second man (for convenience, we’ll just call him a passenger) gets into his car.
The passenger with the hellish red hair and the hellish red jacket takes the driver at gunpoint and orders him to go in an unknown direction. He doesn’t succumb to poignant stories about a wife giving birth, but gets wilder, sipping from a flask and waving a pistol. It soon becomes clear that the passenger was not at all accidental in the driver’s cabin. And in general, not everything is as it seems.
Frame from the movie “Fight the Devil” (2023)
Finishing Group
After 200 metres, turn left.
We will reluctantly turn to the taxi driver and his worried friend, but for now I want to find fault with the translation – “Fight the Devil” is not a “Fight”, of course. It’s not entirely clear what exactly Sympathy for the Devil didn’t like: maybe it didn’t seem masculine enough, I wanted to add something from Michael Mann’s neo-noirs. Therefore, “Fight” arose, which had the opposite meaning (and was actually “Heat” in the original Mann).
The house is the same, but the entrance was wrong: the ears on the tape really come out of Mann, only from “Partner in Crime”, where the murderer is located. (Tom Cruise) took the taxi driver hostage (Jamie Foxx).
Turn left.
“Battle with the Devil” was shot by Israeli director Yuval Adler, who, as they say, specializes in bearable thrillers. Ten years ago, he made his hometown debut with the tape “Bethlehem”, which was well received in Venice and Toronto and even sent for an Oscar from Israel (it didn’t work).
Her next work was the international spy movie The Messenger, starring Diane Kruger and Martin Freeman. Then came the movie “Secrets We Keep” starring Noomi Rapace. (Lisbeth Salander from the Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson) He fought the ghosts of World War II. Adler does not invent the bicycle in his work, but feels more or less confident in the category “B”, and sometimes even manages to surprise.
After 500 meters – exit.
This is true in the “Battle with the Devil” situation. Adler, of course, wasn’t the first to come up with the idea to lock the movie’s action into the car and leave the audience just a little crack for air. In addition to Mann’s previously mentioned “Partner in Crime”, I think of Stephen Knight’s “Lock” – or the freshest “Centaur” with Yura Borisov. With this kind of local asceticism, where it’s important to keep up, not overclock, but also not slow down the flow, Adler copes well, and to his surprise, it’s encrypted in the “Sympathy for the Devil” header, which is safely lost.
Frame from the movie “Fight the Devil” (2023)
Finishing Group
Attention! In front – the camera in the lane.
But there are other surprises as well. For example, this: This isn’t the kind of movie you’d expect from a tape with a redhead Nicolas Cage (of course, he plays a departing passenger, the driver is played by Swedish Joel Kinnaman from both the Suicide Squads and RoboCop versions).
200 meters left to the end of the route.
While Cage’s filmography seems to be heading towards a full-length filing cabinet state of all shades of madness after Mandy, the role here is pretty serious, given his acting genius. So you don’t have to admire Cage’s stubbornness to enjoy “Battle the Devil”. Luckily, however, he wasn’t stubborn at all: In addition to his unique play of facial muscles, there’s, say, a great musical number close to Tarantine under Alicia Bridges’ “I Love the Nightlife” (interesting fact: in 1979 Dracula danced to this hit in the comedy Love at First Bite, and now here’s Cage playing Dracula in Renfield).
In cases like these, Kinnaman is a bit shy in the driver’s seat, you can’t call him a wand-worthy successor to Cage’s onscreen partners, but he does shine at some point.
Thanks for the trip. The order will be paid by card.
In the end, “Fight” isn’t a brilliant thing, of course, but it’s hard not to get your fair share of it – well, it’s kind of like coming from a sailor who, for once, doesn’t bring a treacherous scarf when no one asks him.
Source: Gazeta
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