He said he'd be back.
After being Governor of California for eight years, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a local sheriff looking to stop a drug lord from crossing the US Mexico border. There's not much to say about this trailer other than it looks like a true return to form for the former Governor. The plays on his age and the opening line about not being recognized in regular clothes, made me chuckle quite a bit. With Expendables 2 coming out this weekend and now looking forward to this I think fellow cinephiles are on a high of seeing older war horses get back in the saddle of these 80's type action films. Nothing complicated, complex, just simple and executed well. Which is what I'm hoping for this movie.
However... I cannot overlook the director; Mr. Kim Jee-Woon. Who you might ask?
Kim Jee-Woon is a South Korean writer/director who is making his American feature film debut. His last two films The Good, The Bad, The Weird and I Saw the Devil are very very good films. The Good The Bad, The Weird is an entertaining journey into the Clint Eastwood style spaghetti westerns where three individuals are after a map to a secret treasure that is on a train, however "The Weird" comes into posession of the map and from there its a chase to find the map and get the treasure. The ending of the film ending in true western fashion.
I Saw the Devil, is a fantastic, brutal, bloody and emotional revenge film. A mass murderer stalks and kills a young girl who ends up being the wife a police detective. The police detective is numb, numb to a point where he takes two weeks off to hunt the mass murderer down. However he does not kill him, he cuts him open and plants a tracking device inside of the murder and tracks him so that at his leisure can brutally beat and brake the murderer down. From then on its a game of cat and mouse. While being very bloody and graphic I Saw the Devil is a beautiful take on the morality of men pushed to their limits no matter what social position they hold.
Despite looking like your garden variety action film, I'm holding out big for this one. Its a return of one of the greatest action stars ever! and also the American debut of a director who execution on character of action and story I highly regard. I encourage you all to seek out those films.
The movie co-stars, Luis Guzman, Genesis Rodriguez, Johnny Knoxville, Jamie Alexander, Peter Stormare, and Eduargo Noriega
Join Arnold on his The Last Stand on January 18th, 2012
-StuntmanBob
