In an increasingly difficult financial situation, a former sailor transferred by his peers joins a mercenary organization for a high-risk mission in the hope of supporting his family. Of course, the mission is not going as planned. Trapped and driven, our hero will have no choice but to discover the truth.
Wanted, wanted dead or dead
The pitch reminds you of something? It doesn't surprise us so much the story looks like a thousand dollars. Jason Bourne. Deprived of originality, The Contractor line up the adventures all more phoned together, and you won't have any trouble guessing the end if you're a little bit rode at this kind of movie.
And it is not on the side of the action that you will have for your money. Anti-spectacular as possible, the few rixes with bare hands or other gunfights are certainly realistic, but the result on screen is a softness rarely seen in a production of this type.
Alone against all
Swedish filmmaker working on the series Westworld or Ray Donovan, Tarik Saleh does not seek to do in the bid or in the eye tap. No, the quality of the film comes from the main character, James Harper, performed by a convincing Chris Pine.
Out of the calamity Wonder Woman 84Captain Kirk of the reboot of Star Trek camp with conviction a soldier drawn between the call of duty and the reality of family life. The whole first part of the film focuses on the history of this quidam, lost in this life as a simple citizen, while he gave everything (to his health) to serve his country.
« We gave them our minds, our bodies and our souls and they chewed and spit us out. »
A bitter finding of a certain America, The Contractor, falsely sold as a thriller of action , turns out to be in the end a little praiseworthy portrait of the US army.
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