Proud Mary

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This a a movie with full of strange things. Mary's emotion and facial expression are too strange and out of context. Her mysterious relationship with the strayed kid is even stranger. They even looked like lovers at certain scenes.

Proud Mary (2018) This is an action thriller film that follows successful hit-woman working for an organized crime family in Boston. However, her life is completely shifted when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes wrong and she leaves the boy orphaned. It stars Taraji P. Henson, Billy Brown, Danny Glover, Neal McDonough, Xander Berkeley, Margaret Avery, and Jahi Di'Allo Winston. The film received negative reviews from critics and only grossed $21 million, but those who did watch the film generally enjoyed it. This film was misjudged by Hollywood critics like most films are today. Gone are the days a film can be what it is without it being criticized for its genre's tropes. This need for films to be everything but what they are is destroying film making. Filmakers are trying to hard to please everyone, but the actual people who watch the films. This is an action film and nothing more. A pretty good action film as well. Let it be that simple.

Love Ms Henson. The movie was slow and unfocused. Should have had mob family located in realistic place. Boston really?? The writers and director should have watched a few more movies with Pam Grier as female lead. Maybe even watch domino or the female assassin from John Wick 2. Characters were weak and one dimensional. Hope sequel is better researched and more character development. Will be watching ?!$

Just have to register my low vote because of the waste of time I spent watching this. Yes, it's tough to follow Panther, but even if I didn't watch that first, this movie, to me, is exactly why Parkland School violence happens. Strong contention? When you devalue human life, and in this case it doesn't matter white, black, young or old, life becomes devalued in the real world. IMHO. Maybe not overt, but little bits and everyone involved thinks the hugging and happy ending is sweeter because the survivors love. All life is valuable and you think, oh, it's just a movie with no effect or affect on the world. Time to reconsider that we can make a better world. Lawson di Ransom Canyon

Saw this back to back with The Commuter. I wouldn't go so far as to say Henson outshines Neeson. But it's damn close. Was expecting more from him, less from her. So strange that it turned out the other way around. Both very predictable. You expect that from Mary but not from people on a train. Unfortunately after opening with the best use of song since Denzel drove out of Los Angeles in Roman J. Israel, Esq. it goes flat. No reason not to see it. Not much else out right now. How much of an endorsement is that.

Proud Mary is a completely fine action movie, but it brings nothing new to the table. It is formulaic and follows the standard action movie blueprint and manages to do so without any major plotholes or eye-roll inducing action sequences. Mary (Taraji P. Henson) is a high ranking member of a crime family who tries to take care of a little boy she orphaned and ends up turning her life upside down. The action sequences are well shot and entertaining, though the movie thinks the one-liners are better than they are. The characters are fairly bland and generic, though Henson manages to elevate Mary above the standard B movie action hero. Danny Glover is definitely looking his age and wasn't quite able to give his mob patriarch the edge he needed to ever be really intimidating. I was hoping for more references to the blaxploitation movies of the 70s beyond the title cards and some of the soundtrack, but there really wasn't. They also didn't really utilize the setting much, it is set in Boston, but there was nothing that would have really changed if it was any other city.