Movie recommendation: Shelter (2025)
(www.themoviedb.org)
Comments (17)
sorted by:
This is more an observation than complaint but does that plot synopsis not describe about 90% of Stathem movies?
Statham makes bank off of playing basically the same character over and over again. Beekeeper was one of his more significant block buster successes, but he's done over half a dozen of them now, iirc. More, if you include The Expendables.
Yup, and I'm fine with that since he's the only masculine action hero making movies for men.
He's also the only action star where his characters get to be competent, with the exception of the John Wick series. Every other action movie has the male lead having to defer to female leadership, authority, or intelligence to get the job done (like 90% of Predator Badlands, which was the complete opposite of the original film where the theme was about relying on bravery, masculine prowess, and tactical intelligence to overcome insurmountable odds WITHOUT a woman or help).
The Rock and Vin Diesel are too busy trying to chase awards or pay checks, and John Cena is too busy being the poster-boy for White demoralistion, constantly playing the Big White Goof, instead of embracing and embodying his physique to make movies to inspire young White men. Cena is basically doing the OPPOSITE of what Stallone and Schwarzenegger did during the 80s.
Stallone is shadow producing some of Jason Stathams films by the way. One of them was openly produced by him.
Oi, I forgot about that... you're right. Makes sense. Stallone basically is helping Statham carry on the action-hero torch.
I thought Stallone at one point was supposed to be producing a monster-hunting film similar to Predator, but with Statham? That was years ago, though, and I never kept track of what happened to that project.
Maybe he's busy with stuff like Tulsa King, It's not a bad show though only up to season 2.
Yes, but goy beggars can't be choosers.
Decent Jason Statham action movie with cyberpunk/John Wick vibes. Also mild social commentary on the very real surveillance state.
And the music appears to be a direct ripoff from Deus Ex.
Just to clear this up for me, are you calling John Wick a cyberpunk franchise? I think I could argue that it is, but also that it isn't.
Maybe he meant the aesthetics, neon light fight scenes in minimalist architectures
It has the aesthetic and lots of neon/night clubs. And the screenwriters borrowed a lot from it. Shelter definitely leans more into the Deus Ex vibe though.
He seems alright. Dont think he talks politics very much and one of the few masculine (and white) action hero left.
I recently added this and One Mile Chapter 1 & 2 to my watch/tor list. All 3 seem to have predominantly White casts.
No clue if any of these 3 are decent films or not, but I stopped watching films filled with minorities years ago.
Hillbillies with guns and crossbows attack the only two minorities in the film at the beginning.
I'd be 100% down with that, but it establishes the minorities as good and the Whites as bad...
Cut to the father-daughter road trip and the White daughter tells her father to lock his concealed carry weapon up so that nobody will confuse her for a redneck.
0 for 2 and barely 10 minutes into the first film.