Yeah he was doing it for his family, but the novel wasn't that great.
It meanders a lot and doesn't really drive home the seriousness of his situation very well. The inner monologue should have been way more anxious and frantic, but it was all kind of pedestrian and lackadaisical given the circumstances.
The Arnold film portrayed everything as being much more fast-paced and frantic and immediately dangerous. This remake seems to take the concept from the novel but with a bit of the camp and over-the-top action from the Arnold flick.
That being said, the Lefty messaging just in the trailer is a pretty big turnoff right from the start.
I wonder if the movie will have the chutzpah to end the same way the book did. Without giving any spoilers, the book ending has two elements that I don’t think will play well in the US
If his wife and kid were White, then they would have gone the route of the book. But since they race-swapped them there is no way they will go the route of the book with the first element.
The second element? Probably. There will be an ultimatum and they will likely have Richards sacrifice himself to save his wife and daughter.
Yeah he was doing it for his family, but the novel wasn't that great.
It meanders a lot and doesn't really drive home the seriousness of his situation very well. The inner monologue should have been way more anxious and frantic, but it was all kind of pedestrian and lackadaisical given the circumstances.
The Arnold film portrayed everything as being much more fast-paced and frantic and immediately dangerous. This remake seems to take the concept from the novel but with a bit of the camp and over-the-top action from the Arnold flick.
That being said, the Lefty messaging just in the trailer is a pretty big turnoff right from the start.
I wonder if the movie will have the chutzpah to end the same way the book did. Without giving any spoilers, the book ending has two elements that I don’t think will play well in the US
If his wife and kid were White, then they would have gone the route of the book. But since they race-swapped them there is no way they will go the route of the book with the first element.
The second element? Probably. There will be an ultimatum and they will likely have Richards sacrifice himself to save his wife and daughter.