Join our Whatsapp channel to get the latest global news updates Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. He tweets at all the Latest News, Trending News, Cricket News, Bollywood News, India News and Entertainment News here. Subhash K Jha is a Patna-based film critic who has been writing about Bollywood for long enough to know the industry inside out. But we never quite get close enough to Butler’s character to heel his helpless rage. We never entirely lose interest in the proceedings. Should the husband be shown dramatically overwrought? Hell, no! Gerard Butler is the kind of allusive actor who can convey a wealth of grief and fury by just standing still on screen.īut stillness is death in a film that counts only on a simulated momentum and diversionary noise to keep the audience involved. But it is constant bogged down by awful choices in the writing. Last Seen Alive probably meant to be as gripping a thriller as Butler’s ‘Fallen’ series. By the time the mystery of the disappearing wife is solved, we really can’t care less about her well-being. There is some vague reference to drug dealers and the narration becomes progressively encumbered by a scarcity of budget and imagination, not necessarily in that order. Sundry scumbags are introduced into the storytelling. Regrettably, the rest of the proceedings are trite rather than taut. The husband Will’s frantic attempts to locate her, inquiring with growing anxiety of every passerby at the gas station, records the panic situation with calm intensity.īutler as the anxious husband hits the right notes, especially when faced with the apathy of the cops, who as expected, treat him as the primary suspect in his wife’s kidnapping. The portions of the narration after the wife’s disappearance are the most gripping. She gets off the car to go to the restroom, and never returns. Before they can resolve the issue, they reach a petrol station for a refill. Butler plays Will a man trying hard to argue with his pretty wife (Jaimie Alexander, from the Thor series) against divorce. Tonally, though, this film is terrifically tense. I have to admit that the action sequences in Mr Butler’s new film Last Seen Alive now on Netflix, are not half as riveting as they were in Angel Has Fallen. The action sequences, especially the one where the President is ambushed in the ocean by drones, are first-rate. The director had an eye for streamlined stunt sequences. Gerard Butler played Mike Banning, the US Prez’s security chief who has been out of luck since his fleeting fling with Priyanka Chopra a decade ago.īutler was impressively tormented in Angel Has Fallen, tight-jawed and furious in a role that was meant to shine his frayed valour on a violent landscape where guns and brave men roam helter-skelter hoping the camera captures their derring-do in proportionate measures. Freeman is as black as Obama and replaces the White President from the first two films of the ‘Fallen’ franchise. In the last film, in the Fallen series, Angel Has Fallen in 2019 Morgan Freeman played the President of the United States. And yes, he took more than a passing interest in our own Priyanka Chopra once. The project has been quiet for more than a decade when Butler himself was attached to star for Millennium.Seriously, what happened to this once-famous Scottish movie star who took the world by storm with 300, the ‘Fallen’ franchise and so much more. We couldn’t be more excited to launch this film with our talented team,” Renny Harlin knows how to execute big action, and Aaron Eckhart is such a versatile actor who will bring great depth to this character. Said Mobley, VP Development for Millennium Media: “This is an incredible opportunity to develop a strong new IP into a potential franchise. In Aaron Eckhart I have found a first-class dramatic actor, who also has the physicality and charm to bring this iconic character to life.” If there’s something I learned from my three Chinese movies, it is the importance of deeply felt emotion. Having spent five years in China, I’m excited to be back making a high-caliber Hollywood action thriller. Said Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 director Harlin: “ The Bricklayer screenplay has the rare combination of well-layered characters, intricate plotting and propulsive action. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and Tanner Mobley from Millennium are executive producers.Įckhart is in production as former President Gerald Ford in Showtime’s The First Lady, which will mark the actor’s biggest small-screen role to date. Producers are G-Base’s Alan Siegel, Butler and Danielle Robinson Eclectic Pictures’ Heidi Jo Markel and Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner and Rob Van Norden. Screenplay comes from Hanna Weg ( Septembers of Shiraz) and Matt Johnson ( Into the Blue). Gerard Butler & 'Olympus Has Fallen' Producers Settle $10M Profits Battle - Update

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