The Man from Toronto (2022)

The Man from Toronto (2022)

 2/10

 

Starring

Kevin Hart

Woody Harrelson

Kaley Cuoco

Jasmine Mathews

Lela Loren

 

Directed by Patrick Hughes

 

So, Sony made a bad movie and then sold the distribution rights to Netflix. Well, that’s good marketing for Sony and a bad purchase for Netflix. When is Netflix going to learn to either make good movies or get good movies? This movie was awful.

The chemistry between Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson is non-existent. That’s not even the worst part of this movie—it’s the characters they portray. Kevin plays Teddy, a man who is so annoying and unrealistic that it goes over my head how the director let this happen. The idea of making Teddy a person who never shuts up, even in situations where he is about to die, is one of the worst movie mistakes I have seen. Who goes on a talking spree after surviving a plane crash, witnessing a man kill other people, and being sent on a mission to infiltrate a political killer’s home? Nobody I know would find these situations a good place to keep talking non-stop.

Then there’s Woody’s character, the Man from Toronto, who is supposed to be a ruthless killer with no emotions. Sadly, all through this movie, his reason for keeping Teddy alive started to fade fast, and still, this man failed to just put a bullet in Teddy’s head—even if for no reason but to make his mouth stop moving. Hart talked so much, I yelled at the screen, “Shut up!!”

The plot is about a local screw-up named Teddy, who decided to make up for years of screw-ups and take his wife on a beautiful getaway for her birthday. He mistakenly goes to the wrong house, where the occupants were expecting the Man from Toronto. When he saw that they wanted him to torture someone for fear of getting himself killed, he played along. He got the information they needed without lifting a finger to torture anyone. The place was set to be raided, and it was. Teddy was captured, and since his arrival, the occupants had sent his profile picture to their boss, saying they had made contact with the Man from Toronto. The FBI asks Teddy to continue to play along until they catch the man they’re after.

The Man from Toronto watches from the sidelines as all this takes place. He catches up with Teddy before he goes on the next mission, and the two work together to get the next piece of information before Toronto decides what he wants to do with Teddy.

In the end, you have a movie filled with promising stars who never mesh on screen and a script that never took off.