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.
If it were only one like that, then sure, whatever. Instead, repeat it in every goddamn movie since at least 2014. Are you ok with that?
Because that's the problem. They're all like that. And have been for a decade or better.
At best, if the main character is a white guy, he's allowed to be competent, though he'll still probably be shown up a few times by a woman or other Diverse characters. Otherwise, white men are always evil, idiots, or evil idiots. Occasionally they'll be be semi-competent comic relief.
That's the problem, you dimwit. Not this one particular movie.
So you've missed the point. It's not about "a" movie. It's about all movies. And TV. And video games.