Samaritan starring Sylvester Stallone is a movie about an aging superhero who has stepped away from his crime fighting days and is living low-key as a commoner. That's a somewhat interesting premise that could have been explored so much more instead of what ended up being presented on screen, which turned out to be the most basic, uninteresting, uninspired and lazily written version of it imaginable.
The whole lore behind the movie about Samaritan and Nemesis is some of the goofiest and silliest you would see for a movie that tries so hard to convince you of how seriously we should all be taking it. And even the names Samaritan and Nemesis... Like are they even trying at this point? There was one somewhat interesting plot twist in the third act but that in no way helps this movie which was already dead by the time it reaches its third act. And all in all, there isn't much positively to say about this movie. Even the acting was sub-par at best (Stallone) to straight up amateur hour (the kid, the villain, his girlfriend, his lackeys...) for the most of it. But if you were to force me to pick one thing refreshing about this movie, I'd maybe say the camerawork and coloring that presents a somewhat noticeably cold take on a struggling city. That, and maybe Sylvester Stallone, but only because I love Sylvester Stallone.
Overall, I appreciate what this movie could have been, but that's still not enough to save Samaritan from its own writing that makes the whole thing feel underwhelmingly silly.
The whole lore behind the movie about Samaritan and Nemesis is some of the goofiest and silliest you would see for a movie that tries so hard to convince you of how seriously we should all be taking it. And even the names Samaritan and Nemesis... Like are they even trying at this point? There was one somewhat interesting plot twist in the third act but that in no way helps this movie which was already dead by the time it reaches its third act. And all in all, there isn't much positively to say about this movie. Even the acting was sub-par at best (Stallone) to straight up amateur hour (the kid, the villain, his girlfriend, his lackeys...) for the most of it. But if you were to force me to pick one thing refreshing about this movie, I'd maybe say the camerawork and coloring that presents a somewhat noticeably cold take on a struggling city. That, and maybe Sylvester Stallone, but only because I love Sylvester Stallone.
Overall, I appreciate what this movie could have been, but that's still not enough to save Samaritan from its own writing that makes the whole thing feel underwhelmingly silly.