Jason Statham has made a profession making high-action, high-octane movies that normally pit him in opposition to giant teams of dangerous guys seeking to take him down. It’s been a formulation that’s served him very nicely through the years with a variety of hit movies and franchises that comply with a lot of the identical plot factors and use the identical units. However there’s one among his extra ignored movies accessible on streaming proper now. Homefront simply hit Netflix this week.
Homefront is about Jason Statham’s character Phil Dealer, a former Military officer turned undercover DEA agent who has left that life to lift his younger daughter within the deep south. Ignore for a minute how an Englishman bought into the US Military or into legislation enforcement. That’s not necessary.
He’s a widower and is attempting to simply dwell the quiet life principally off the grid. However as a result of this can be a Statham movie, we all know issues aren’t more likely to simply be all apple pie and vanilla ice cream. No, it doesn’t take lengthy earlier than he’s dragged, unwittingly, again into that life. Try the trailer for:
Jason Statham doesn’t take lengthy to run afoul of the native drug kingpin within the space who desires to trigger the previous a substantial quantity of ache. It’s a bit convoluted however mainly, due to a bullying scenario along with his daughter, Dealer is pitted at odds with Gator (James Franco) who set a few collection of actions that pressure our hero into many a struggle. It additionally places his daughter in appreciable hassle. With out giving an excessive amount of away, know that the pacing of the movie strikes rapidly and there’s a truthful quantity of coronary heart.
One factor you’ll be shocked about with Homefront is the forged and crew. As I discussed, becoming a member of Jason Statham is James Franco within the villain function. His character Gator is low burn evil, a dead-eyed dangerous man with just one factor on his thoughts. However there are many different acquainted faces as nicely. Kate Bosworth performs Gator’s sister Cassie who is definitely accountable for sending her brother out for vengeance. And Winona Ryder even will get in on issues, taking part in Gator’s scumbaggy girlfriend.
Chuck Zito and Frank Grillo make appearances in addition to, you guessed it, a part of a biker gang. Lastly, whereas not showing on display, the script was really written by Sylvester Stallone.
Homefront was ignored on a variety of totally different fronts. For the entire all-star casting, Jason Statham included, it scored solely $52 million on the field workplace although it nonetheless outpaced the $22 million finances. So it wasn’t something like a loss. And critics landed within the merely *meh* vary with the movie scoring 43% on the Tomatometer by greater than 100 evaluations.
For Jason Statham, Homefront landed smack in the midst of a run of movies for the actor that have been comparable when it comes to pacing and physique depend. He was making his bones in these action roles by the higher a part of the 2000s and into the 2010s. Different movies in that point interval included The Mechanic, Secure, Killer Elite, Parker,and Redemption.
All of those set about with very comparable, Statham-y themes. What units Homefront aside is it’s a bit extra stripped down than these movies, leaning extra into the small-town vibe and giving Statham’s character extra of a laid again really feel to begin.
As Jason Statham’s movies have solely gotten greater through the years, it may be enjoyable wanting again at flicks with barely smaller budgets. That’s as a result of he’s simply coming off the success of Quick & Livid Presents: Hobbes and Shaw alongside Dwayne Johnson.
The 2 headlined a movie with their titular characters from the Quick & Livid franchise was a success, incomes greater than $750 million on the field workplace on a whopping $200 million finances. There, in fact, is a chat of a sequel.
He’s subsequent slated to staff again up with director Man Ritchie in Wrath of Man. The 2 labored collectively already on Lock, Inventory and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Revolver. It’s a heist movie that’s slated for launch later this 12 months. Earlier than then although, you should definitely catch Jason Statham on Netflix in Homefront. Followers of the actor will love the tone and the remainder of the forged is A+.
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