Interceptor (2022)

 Interceptor (2022)

3/10

 Starring

Elsa Pataky

Luke Bracey

 

Directed by Matthew Reilly

 

Do Netflix have any plans at all to make good movies?

It’s hard to understand how they’ve been in service for so long with crappy movies like this. Then you remember they survived by buying distribution rights to movies done by others, while theirs always sucked. This sucked.

What was this? What in heaven’s name was this turd? This movie sucked so much that if it was playing in a cinema, I would’ve walked out. It’s a plain action movie with action sequences that made absolutely no sense at all.

Elsa couldn’t do those things, and I give her props for trying hard to convince me that she could. Sadly, I wasn’t convinced.

This was badly written and not well directed. They just wanted to make an action movie and didn’t bother to think. The idea was bad, the plan was stupid, and then they were stopped by one person, a character who is too good to be true. The movie didn’t bother to give us details on how the bad guys got the nuclear weapons. It just states that they have them and are now going to use them. Knowing the U.S. well, the terrorists decided to hijack a missile interceptor rig to stop the U.S. from destroying the missiles before they reach their target. All their plans would’ve worked if not for Captain J.J. Collins (Elsa), who they somehow had a contingency plan for surviving all their tactics. Now, was she that bad-ass that they had to be ready? Well, the movie felt so, and I thought this was bullshit. She alone had to kill so many people in close proximity to win, and how she managed to not get killed is a miracle that could make an atheist believe in God.

How Elsa, in the end, was able to wrench something from the panel—which had been damaged with acid—and hook it up to a laptop to try and save the day blew my mind. The movie must think we’re all stupid. I want to believe that real interceptor rigs (if they exist) are better wired, because that didn’t make any sense at all. Don’t even think for a second that this movie tried to explain the technological phenomena.

I have a huge crush on Elsa Pataky, but that crush was just enough to stomach watching her through this movie. Other than that, this movie is terrible. There’s no way the cast and crew believed they had done something worth anyone’s time, except for fans of Elsa.