The Painter

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Ron G A lot of talking and hackneyed film making using some over used cinematic devices in a completely uncreative way. Plays like a read-thru for a movie but they forgot to put effort into making he movie. Best seen while doing something else.... like sleeping or crushing grapes. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 10/10/24 Full Review Theo M Fantastically horrendous! Amazingly stupefying! Aromatically stenchifying! Painfully torturous! A must see! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/19/24 Full Review Jeffrey P Reaches the bar for what one should expect from a modern action movie. The villains and the villainous plot needed more time and depth, and the painter aspect of his persona needed more relevance and meaning to the character. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/26/24 Full Review Quirky G About as cheesy and predictuable as most movies of this genre. Even the premise is ludicrous, CIA sends 8 agents who he kills because. . ? And the fight scenes. . omg. .they're so bad. It used to be 1980's when a group fighting one guy would take turns, but today?! Even the acting is mediocre. Jon Voight must of been hard up. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review Nancy T I would almost rather do a colonoscopy preparation than watch this movie again! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/01/24 Full Review Dennis V This is a perfect example of why Hollywood is failing. The script must have been written by someone's brother-in-law. That's an insult to all the great screenplays written every year that producers won't even look at while pieces of hack garbage like this get green-lit into multi-million dollar movies. The film is a shameless rip-off of other franchises, like Daredevil (the hero has super hearing), and John Wick (gratuitous combination of melee/gunplay with the hero taking down an entire enemy force single-handed). The painter is a former CIA operative who retired and went off the grid after a violent encounter involving his wife/girlfriend/whatever, who went into a hot zone with her CIA team while eight months pregnant. Just because. Now it's seventeen years later after she apparently abandoned Peter (aka "The Painter" because he went on to become a known artist under a new alias in his post-CIA life) over the incident. There are plot holes galore over what really happened to the baby as told in flashbacks, and why Peter would know nothing of this. In the present, Peter is now a target because he apparently has "information." Bring in Jon Voight, a retired CIA operative and Peter's dad, whose gimmick is that he's a master of disguise. Except his disguises are comically bad, and believability is blown when Peter, with his super hearing, can't make out that it's his dad's voice with a fake accent when the audience can immediately hear that it's Jon Voight. How Peter got his super hearing as a kid is totally contrived. Other contrivances include a local computer store owner who happens to be an expert hacker who must have worked at Wikileaks. The heavy in the story is the female head of the CIA operation tracking down Peter. Along with her partner, the pair look like a couple of rejects from The Bachelor. Her performance is so one-dimensional and lacking in nuance that you know from the first scene that she is the bad guy. Every time she's on-screen she behaves like some high school mean girl. And then there's the cliche "mystery girl" who becomes central to the plot (gee surprise). The plot itself might actually be pretty good with a decent screenplay and not this mess. The writing, dialogue, and acting are so bad that you no longer care about Mystery Girl, secret sinister CIA operations, or Jon Voight's acting choices. Take a pass on this one. At least I watched it for free on a plane from London. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/08/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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