Code Name Banshee (2022)
2/10
Starring
Antonio Banderas
Jamie King
Tommy Flanagan
Directed by Jon Keeyes
Acting: zero.
Soundtrack/score: annoying, sounds like a video game. Then, the story is just a
joke. This movie is supposed to be a spy movie with some intense moments, but
instead, what we get is a movie hoping to make sense. Jamie King's character,
Banshee, has a stern face, acting ahead of everyone else, and it’s laughable.
Her character portrayal is so funny-bad that I’m tempted to ask you to watch
the trailer of this movie, but even that would be a waste of your time.
The movie has
one major plot: finding a guy named Caleb, who is suspected of treason. Finding
him carries a bounty of $10 million. Finding him turns out not to be so hard
because Banshee did it, and she’s the only one in the entire U.S. secret
service CIA with that one guy. He’s so good, he can track down the untraceable
and hack into anything to let Banshee know where to go and who will be waiting.
From the get-go,
the movie makes it clear: yup, this is going to be crap.
During a
briefing/interrogation, Banshee attacks the lady (probably her handler, we
don’t know) doing the questioning and puts a gun to her head. The information
being passed across is that her father and mentor are being suspected of
treason. Her father is suspected to be dead, and her mentor, Caleb, is missing,
and no one can find him.
The movie
doesn’t hold back on the ridiculousness. In the process of hyping up our girl,
she seems to get away from situations in some lackluster John Wick style.
Then, the whole
treason situation and everything around it seems to no longer matter. The movie
just gave up on that and focused more on the conversations.
The movie is so
easy to figure out that there’s no point in stressing yourself by watching it.
Caleb is in some remote place as a bartender, who decided to train his daughter
to be a badass.
My life has not
improved in any way after seeing this movie. I wasn’t happy or satisfied in the
end; I just wanted to get back every ounce of my life.
The best way to
watch such a movie is the way I did: doing something else while letting it run
in the background so you can giggle at the ridiculousness.
I came across
this on TV, and I would advise you to skip it if you see it running.
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