I was in the mood to turn my brain off witch an action movie I hadn't seen before, so did just that.
I won't do a full review since I'm only 30 minutes in, but the movie is Ambulance, 2022; Jake Gyllenhaal, some black dude, and some hispanic chick.
It's competent enough so far, generally. It's not doing anything too fancy, but I appreciate that from an action movie. But the Modern Audiences™ nonsense is unavoidable. I wish I didn't notice this but, once you know, you know.
Every black person is competent and in a position of power. Every white person is some combination of psychopath, loser, or incompetent. There's only been one woman in focus so far, but she's - no kidding - "the best paramedic in the city," and extremely competent. Hobbled with some newbie white dweeb...who's probably going to die or otherwise get damseled, at a guess.
Gyllenhaal and Black Dude are brothers. Black Dude was adopted by, wait for it, Gyllenhaal's psychotic criminal father. Black Dude is a patriotic veteran who's trying to get his life together, while his white brother is a criminal who drags him into shit. Gyllenhaal's criminal crew are, I believe, all white...and some of the most ridiculously incompetent or insane people around. Hilariously, they're also a very diverse set of whites for some reason; you have I believe an Italian, Irishman, and some sandal-wearing hippy hacker or something. It's bizarre.
It's all so tiresome.
Even if the mood were to strike you, why pick something recent? Your chances of finding something you walk away from pleased decreases dramatically the closer to now you pick from.
Also reading this reminds me of another movie Jakey did a long time ago with Tobey Maguire. In which Jake is a criminal loser to a patriotic military brother. Except in that one Jake does get his life together slowly taking care of Tobey's family while he is a PoW.
Its called Brothers. Solid movie for anyone who wants to relive some childhood PTSD of dealing with a Vet father's emotional violent breakdowns from his own PTSD.
Shear hubris? Drunken stupidity? Unbridled yet entirely unfounded optimism?
Nah, seriously, I like some of the technological advancements, and I have seen some modern action movies that are fun. Boss Level and Baby Driver come to mind. The latter being almost a decade old now. Although you're one hundred percent correct on the next part, and in hindsight I should have avoided modern stuff:
Yup, anything past the '00s is pushing it, anything into the '20s is some Russian roulette shit.
I have a friend who does this. He subjects himself to media he knows sucks. He does not expect to be wrong, he just has a curiosity about exactly how bad it is.
We've dubbed the condition "cinemasochism"
Your friend clearly does not value his time.