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As an impatient movie viewer like me, I never tolerated myself to watch a bad movie over 5 minutes if it's really bad. "The Mother" released just now in May 2023 has proved itself NOT BAD at all since I sat through the whole movie, only for a few moments when it showed some illogical flaws that I shook my head, but I've never felt quitting right away.
Those who inexplicably held grudges and prejudice against Jennifer Lopez, considering her a bad actor, is something I never understood. I actually think she did a pretty good job in "The Mother", she never gave me a dull moment at all.
What I'd like to mention here is some of the scenes with bad logic:
1) When she was questioned and briefed by those guys at the very beginning and attacked by her enemies, a seasoned operative would not wear white attire as an easy target, especially when she knew her enemies had already knew her whereabouts. 2) Signed up and cast Joseph Fiennes to play Adrian and Gael Garcia Bernal to play Hector are very bad choices, because both with funny faces and light weighted; their presences were not well developed and quite vague. Neither convincingly showed bad vibes and evilness. 3) How could an operative like Cruise would addict to tattoo so extremely? 4) When Cruise was ambushed and stabbed with a knife so seriously on his back, how could he still run Marathon as a Spartan in Havana's streets like nothing happened? 5) Tarantula, the bad guy chased by The Mother and Cruise, a guy who sniffed coke and smoking all the time, could run like a long distance Marathon runner, doing amazing zigzag jumps as a skilled Parkour, like his lungs were perfect and his energy was unlimited? 6) Why Adrian and Hector hated The Mother so much? How come they would spend so much and use so many resources to kill her, even after 12 years? The final fighting scene in Alaska was an overkill, just copied from some of the 007 movies, but looked so absurd. 7) The Mother paid $2,000 to buy an old pickup truck, a clunker, then drove it from the lower states to Alaska? Yeah, right, 'cause it's Made in USA. It's engine never spitted out burnt oil blue smoke.
But all of the above-mentioned did not make "The Mother" a very bad movie at all, actually, it's a quite decent one, and JLO, as a Mother, also performed very nicely. If I did finished watching it to the end, it undoubtedly proved itself as a pretty watchable movie.
Those who inexplicably held grudges and prejudice against Jennifer Lopez, considering her a bad actor, is something I never understood. I actually think she did a pretty good job in "The Mother", she never gave me a dull moment at all.
What I'd like to mention here is some of the scenes with bad logic:
1) When she was questioned and briefed by those guys at the very beginning and attacked by her enemies, a seasoned operative would not wear white attire as an easy target, especially when she knew her enemies had already knew her whereabouts. 2) Signed up and cast Joseph Fiennes to play Adrian and Gael Garcia Bernal to play Hector are very bad choices, because both with funny faces and light weighted; their presences were not well developed and quite vague. Neither convincingly showed bad vibes and evilness. 3) How could an operative like Cruise would addict to tattoo so extremely? 4) When Cruise was ambushed and stabbed with a knife so seriously on his back, how could he still run Marathon as a Spartan in Havana's streets like nothing happened? 5) Tarantula, the bad guy chased by The Mother and Cruise, a guy who sniffed coke and smoking all the time, could run like a long distance Marathon runner, doing amazing zigzag jumps as a skilled Parkour, like his lungs were perfect and his energy was unlimited? 6) Why Adrian and Hector hated The Mother so much? How come they would spend so much and use so many resources to kill her, even after 12 years? The final fighting scene in Alaska was an overkill, just copied from some of the 007 movies, but looked so absurd. 7) The Mother paid $2,000 to buy an old pickup truck, a clunker, then drove it from the lower states to Alaska? Yeah, right, 'cause it's Made in USA. It's engine never spitted out burnt oil blue smoke.
But all of the above-mentioned did not make "The Mother" a very bad movie at all, actually, it's a quite decent one, and JLO, as a Mother, also performed very nicely. If I did finished watching it to the end, it undoubtedly proved itself as a pretty watchable movie.
Military officers or civilians in this movie all looked like a bunch of clowns and comedians. The whole movie if could be scripted, directed and acted in a more modern-day way, it would be a great thrilling adventure movie, but regretfully ruined by all the people involved. The movie itself just felt like heavily staged with terrible blah, blah and blah dialog. The over-the-top soundtrack, the score just felt overdone. If the British military guys like what we saw in this particular movie, the colonization of half of the world would be a myth instead of a fact. They were just a bunch of clowns, hesitant and bewildered all the time. Two female characters in this movie were totally unnecessary too. Even the leading role of the British officer, sometimes also looked like an very incapable yes-sir man.
The canons blasted in this movie also looked like joke, fired blindly to some distances not even in the range of the rebels' attacking waves. The unpredictable and uncontrollable sudden whistles from the old locomotive steam engine only further the comic feeling of this terrible movie. Why anytime involved the British old military officers with their funny dialog in any movie would only ruined their realistic seriousness is always a puzzle to me. It's exactly like whenever I watched a Taiwanese movie, its funny unnatural dialog delivered by all the actors would immediately made me feel unbearable to watch.
The canons blasted in this movie also looked like joke, fired blindly to some distances not even in the range of the rebels' attacking waves. The unpredictable and uncontrollable sudden whistles from the old locomotive steam engine only further the comic feeling of this terrible movie. Why anytime involved the British old military officers with their funny dialog in any movie would only ruined their realistic seriousness is always a puzzle to me. It's exactly like whenever I watched a Taiwanese movie, its funny unnatural dialog delivered by all the actors would immediately made me feel unbearable to watch.
Purposefully twisted plots that could only exist in Marvel or Disney animations or cartoons. The actors, one male and two females who played the three main characters all looked like their IQ were over 160 at genius level, especially the stone-cold young woman who played the mistress of that man. The overly exaggerated extremity of the coincidental scene after scene could only happen in lousy fictions or fantasies, unnatural, self-indulgent, self-serving and shallow. The chemistry between the man and his mistress was non-exist at all, albeit sexual relationship. There's no way to convince me or anyone with the least IQ would buy such ridiculousness.