Mission Alarum 2025 [alternative name Alarum] by AverageMansReviews

Alarum 2025 [alternative name Alarum] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/stabbing/cutting/torture/medical/references to Russia

5 years later: briefly; Agent Joe Travers/other names [Scott Eastwood:] he is retired, but is on a mission with his wife, but Agent Chester [Sylvester Stallone:] he is sent to take out this husband-and-wife.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, character developments, framework and pacing of this 95 minutes film; is messy go in the wrong it makes sense kind of but it doesn't give us a full rounded picture and this is one of those rare occasion, for us the viewers to get the understanding in some cases we need to see things, I will discuss this more later on, but needless to say as things are it comes off really cheap and tacky and incredibly lazy, so in response to that it makes the framework and pacing nonsensical from the aspect of Who? What the hell? Where are we going now? Then it suddenly drops like a stone as when we go to these characters sitting around possibly at this table, then for all intents and purposes we are back out in the field.

Art, action and comedy; for some reason [ I say with some reason based on the quality of this artistic sequence and the quality of the rest of the film, is very poor:] but however the artistic red opening sequence is high quality, but for the rest of the film the green-screen effects are let's be polite highly noticeable, the action sequences are plentiful with guns and combat; basically Mike Colter as Orlin: without giving too much away as he is a leader of this group sent in to retrieve something: but in this one sequence of events he shoots the grenades into these three separate windows to hopefully burn out/bring out these characters or with one character in a nutshell asking another character if they can join them, with in response after killing this individual saying something to the effect of access denied.

Character developments and performances; I need to make this crystal clear that if we just had the substandard character types for this type of action film, which we do on some aspects with some characters, but to have this exposition of 5 years, including but not limited to making references to this organisation in some fashion, without actually seeing them in the slightest, well to be brutally honest it is incredibly tedious and tiresome, which infringes on the is paint by numbers character types, so broadly the performances are a mixed bag of poor to mostly mediocre with one exception: Colter as Orlin; he is the one that looks and feels natural as this character type; so this is all good; he very much standout as a character and simultaneously a performer it as well.

Alexa is in music 1/10, this film is poor; in theory this film should have been somewhere between 5 or 6 or at a push 7/10, because everything about this project is designed to be an action film, you know something straightforward without too much hassle. But back in reality the execution is absolute garbage; yes it may have some good elements or/and components, but the negatives greatly outweigh the positives; it's very much whatever talent this cast as at its disposal and like I have already referenced it leaves everything open for a sequel, based on here and now if it doesn't it makes this ending look like garbage and if it does the person I watch some of this content with has already very much declined to watch the sequel.