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movie review - All the Devil's Men

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.05.19

This is a spy story set in the modern, post-Cold War era. It features a soldier who becomes involved in an effort to stop a nuclear weapon from falling into the wrong hands. Starring a son of Mel Gibson in his first acting role, it wanders from gun-fight to gun-fight, expending amoral and uninteresting characters until you know at the end that any victory is going to be rather difficult to feel. I can forgive the corners cut due to a low budget but not the feeling that whoever "wrote" this thing wasn't thinking in terms of characters. Or to be fair, perhaps it was meddled with. But, not my problem. I regret investing the time in this.

Not recommended. Find another contemporary action film. "Extraction", perhaps.

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There is no greater fault than ambition, no greater curse than discontentment, and no greater sin than greed. The one who is contented with contentment shall always be contented.

— Lao Tsu