Stars: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Ken Jeong, Annabelle Wallis, Michelle Yeoh, Will Sasso, Mathilde Olivier | Written by Joe Carnahan, Chris Borey, Eddie Borey | Directed by Joe Carnahan
This… This is how you take a genre or story device and make it feel fresh! Let’s be honest the old re-living the same day over and over till it has a satisfying conclusion is a trope we have seen many many times. Groundhog Day and more recently Happy Death Day are a couple that spring to mind, so when I read the synopsis for Boss Level I did kind of shake my head. However, like I have said so many times, if someone I like is in the movie or it’s a director I’m into then your damn right I’m going to give it a fair shake!
Here we have Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), Mel Gibson (Fatman) and...
This… This is how you take a genre or story device and make it feel fresh! Let’s be honest the old re-living the same day over and over till it has a satisfying conclusion is a trope we have seen many many times. Groundhog Day and more recently Happy Death Day are a couple that spring to mind, so when I read the synopsis for Boss Level I did kind of shake my head. However, like I have said so many times, if someone I like is in the movie or it’s a director I’m into then your damn right I’m going to give it a fair shake!
Here we have Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), Mel Gibson (Fatman) and...
- 8/16/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
This article contains spoilers for Boss Level.
Boss Level stars Frank Grillo as Roy Pulver, a former Special Forces operative who has been waking up on the same day over and over again, only to get killed every time. He’s macheted, shot to pieces by a helicopter, killed in a fall, blown up by a rocket launcher, impaled through the chest, and dragged by a truck–you name a way to die, and Pulver has pretty much experienced it.
One hundred and forty times.
As the Joe Carnahan-directed film begins, Pulver has no idea why he’s been assassinated dozens of times, or who is sending the team of assassins that mow him down every day. Over the course of the movie, however, he gradually uncovers one clue after another that convince him to find ways to stay alive a little longer each day.
The first clue is the word “Osiris,...
Boss Level stars Frank Grillo as Roy Pulver, a former Special Forces operative who has been waking up on the same day over and over again, only to get killed every time. He’s macheted, shot to pieces by a helicopter, killed in a fall, blown up by a rocket launcher, impaled through the chest, and dragged by a truck–you name a way to die, and Pulver has pretty much experienced it.
One hundred and forty times.
As the Joe Carnahan-directed film begins, Pulver has no idea why he’s been assassinated dozens of times, or who is sending the team of assassins that mow him down every day. Over the course of the movie, however, he gradually uncovers one clue after another that convince him to find ways to stay alive a little longer each day.
The first clue is the word “Osiris,...
- 3/6/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
The new action sci-fi thriller Boss Level begins with former Special Forces agent Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) and an unnamed woman waking up in Pulver’s bed, fully clothed, after what looks like a rough night. But things get rougher very quickly, as an assassin enters Pulver’s apartment and attempts to kill him. Pulver defeats him but ends up dying anyway–only to wake up the next morning and do the whole thing again, perhaps living a little longer and getting killed by someone else, but still dying.
In a running voiceover, Pulver casually informs us that this is the 140th time he’s done this. And he still can’t figure out why or how it’s happening, or how to break out of the time loop he’s stuck in. All he knows is that he will wake up again on the very same morning and despite...
In a running voiceover, Pulver casually informs us that this is the 140th time he’s done this. And he still can’t figure out why or how it’s happening, or how to break out of the time loop he’s stuck in. All he knows is that he will wake up again on the very same morning and despite...
- 3/5/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Add another entry to the time loop directory with Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level arriving as this month’s installment of what feels like a regular ritual these days. It’s not socially relevant like The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, emotionally poignant like Before I Fall, genre-bending like Happy Death Day, or irreverently subversive like Palm Springs, but it is entertaining. This is especially true for fans (like me) of the director’s Smokin’ Aces since that’s the title this latest work most closely resembles whether by way of its frenetic pacing, eccentric criminals, or blunt yet quick-witted humor. With sardonic narration dripping with the frustration that comes from constantly waking up to deadly assassins ensuring death arrives before 1:00pm each day, it never tries to be something it’s not.
That narrator is Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo)—a former covert military operative who finds himself growing bored...
That narrator is Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo)—a former covert military operative who finds himself growing bored...
- 3/2/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Stars: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Ken Jeong, Annabelle Wallis, Michelle Yeoh, Will Sasso, Mathilde Olivier | Written by Joe Carnahan, Chris Borey, Eddie Borey | Directed by Joe Carnahan
This… This is how you take a genre or story device and make it feel fresh! Let’s be honest the old re-living the same day over and over till it has a satisfying conclusion is a trope we have seen many many times. Groundhog Day and more recently Happy Death Day are a couple that spring to mind, so when I read the synopsis for Boss Level I did kind of shake my head. However, like I have said so many times, if someone I like is in the movie or it’s a director I’m into then your damn right I’m going to give it a fair shake!
Here we have Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), Mel Gibson (Fatman) and...
This… This is how you take a genre or story device and make it feel fresh! Let’s be honest the old re-living the same day over and over till it has a satisfying conclusion is a trope we have seen many many times. Groundhog Day and more recently Happy Death Day are a couple that spring to mind, so when I read the synopsis for Boss Level I did kind of shake my head. However, like I have said so many times, if someone I like is in the movie or it’s a director I’m into then your damn right I’m going to give it a fair shake!
Here we have Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), Mel Gibson (Fatman) and...
- 12/18/2020
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
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