I sat down to watch the 2021 movie "Those Who Wish Me Dead" here in 2021 as I was sort of made to do so, given the fact that my wife wanted to watch it. So I buckled in and went to watch it with her.
Granted, I wasn't really expecting much of anything grand here from writers Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt and Taylor Sheridan. So I would say that director Taylor Sheridan definitely had all the chances to impress me with "Those Who Wish Me Dead".
And let me just say that "Those Who Wish Me Dead" was actually an adequately entertaining and enjoyable movie. It had that particular classic thriller sense to it that made movies had back in the 1980s. So that definitely worked out for me.
The storyline in the movie was good. Sure, this wasn't exactly rocket science, but the script provided me with adequate entertainment and enough suspense to keep it interesting.
"Those Who Wish Me Dead" had a good ensemble of actors and actresses to help bring the movie to life on the screen, with the likes of Angelina Jolie, Jon Bernthal, Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult.
Visually then "Those Who Wish Me Dead" was fairly good. However, the scene with the rapidly spreading fire in the forest was just a bit over the top. Now, I am by no means traversed in the science of forest fires, but the speed that the fire spread with just seemed way too impossible. Sure, it made for intense entertainment, but...
While "Those Who Wish Me Dead" definitely was watchable, the movie just doesn't really have the contents to support more than just a single viewing, as the storyline just doesn't carry the leverage for such. And this movie is hardly one that left me impressed, and I believe that it is one that will slowly fade into oblivion among a sea of other similar movies.
Ultimately, then I am rating "Those Who Wish Me Dead" a six out of ten stars.
