Keep Calm & Cavill On

Bronco -

and Sidney -

And together they and the rest of their dream team are setting up meetings with the aforementioned billionaires and giant corporations, which usually go as smooth as you can imagine, because of course their clients are as willing to get separated from their money as I'm willing to exist during this heatwave

Now.

Does this movie have tight plot? Is this a unique story? Do most of the characters feel three-dimensional, each with their own inner world? Is there any hidden lesson or exploration of philosophical themes? Does this movie make a lot of sense?

The answers to those questions are: no, nah, nope, god no lmao, only theoretically

however.

IT IS SO BLOODY FUN

There are three main reasons why I've spent 2 days writing this post:

Reason 1:

I liked the focus on the logistics of how a team of professionals go about setting out those meetings while also trying to keep their dear lawyer more or less intact - laying the groundwork waaaay beforehand, researching the area, planning the escape routes, rehearsal, etc.

And idk, maybe because I don't actually watch action movies that often, so it can be a beaten down trope, but I liked how it showed the importance of preparation and legal stuff, instead of just brute force

Reason 2:

No forced het romance! This is my personal thing, bc I'm not a huge fan of romance in general, and also because the writing of this kind of subplot, particularly in action genre, is just godawful 99.9% of the time (SUDDEN KISS OR SEX SCENE DOES NOT ROMANCE MAKE ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S NO REASON WHY THOSE CHARACTERS SHOULD BE INTO EACH OTHER BESIDES THEM BEING OF OPPOSITE GENDERS)

but in this movie Rachel's only desires are to get her money and hopefully also survive

And the rest of her team doesn't have an atom of these kinds of feelings towards her, beside the undying loyalty and respect, and they treat her more like their adoptive parent (hence her various nicknames), which I personally think is fantastic and also very funny because she is clearly much younger than all of them

and last, but CERTAINLY not least:

Reason 3:

Bronco and Sidney are just. Like That

every time they're on screen together, and it's a

FUCKING DELIGHT

Obviously in part because these actors have the combined amount of charisma capable of powering a medium-sized country for several years, and the chemistry just happened to be insane

But their dynamic is just *mental shrieking reaches its peak and I explode*

We don't know what exactly they are to each other, we don't know what happened in Chiang Mai, we don't know where they even came from and what's their deal, but here's the thing - I don't want to know.

I just want them to continue be super weird and vague about their relationship (they could be full-on brothers with fucked up sense of humor for all I care), occasionally refer to each other as husbands, have the whole "a bonded pair of stray cats imprinting on a vulture and set on protecting her from the flocks of other vultures", and I want to watch them being Like That forever

So.