“Guardian (Executive)” ★★
Address Richard Hughes
interpreters Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth, Mojean Aria
premiere December 9, 2022
this Antonio Banderas Everyone who works in Hollywood, with a few exceptions, is conditioned to a very specific Hispanic image. Moreover, in recent years, action heroalmost always dark side: “Bullethead: deadly trap”, “Black butterfly”, “Acts of revenge” or “Security” showed the image of the Malaga actor at their fastest and somewhat nihilistic when he needed to pick up a gun or fight hand to hand. .
‘Protector’ falls on the same line. It seems like an unscripted film that entrusts absolutely everything to the disenchanted image of Banderas, very different from the one shown, for example, in Almodóvar’s cinema, proving its flexibility. In the first scene, he is hesitantly walking along the Miami beach at dawn, seriously injured. Although the movie goes back in time to tell us what happened to his character, a violent but not arrogant hitmanWe know that there is no turning back: the fate of this guardian has already been written from the first images.
The rest of the movie is embellished with his friendship with a young fighter, whom he sort of mentor, and a young woman he helped to come to Miami the next day to find out that he had been kidnapped. . by a gang his boss does business with. Padding upon padding was saved only by the presence of the actor, sometimes not without fatigue and irony..