This is taken much more seriously than the over-the-top “Shotgun Wedding” and Caro and her filmmaking team ably capture Lopez in all her glory, whether walking through the Alaskan snow framed by a fur hood, jumping out of multi-story parking garages and sliding over cars in a chase, or dancing with Fiennes in a body hugging dress. “The Mother” just expects that you’re on board with some essential connection, which Paul Raci (nice to see him again on screen) tries his best to sell.Īs expected, Lopez is an athletic and capable action hero (maybe too capable, but that could also be said of most of the guys out there, too).
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This is supposed to be a big emotional journey for Mother and Zoe and the viewing audience, but I can’t say this movie ever really convinces you to care about this relationship, which is especially odd because there have been plenty of random pairings of adult assassins and non-blood relation children in movies that I’ve felt invested in. This brings her out of her glamorously rugged Alaska retirement and back in action as a superhuman spy/assassin/one-woman army.Īt first, Mother denies her Mother-hood to Zoe (Lucy Paez), whose foster parents get about as much character development and screen time as a couple in a cell phone commercial. But the movie itself is set 12 years later when Mother learns that the daughter (who does get a name, Zoe) is in danger. And all of this is very interesting in theory. There is a “Mamma Mia”-esque mystery about who the father is and an even bigger mystery about if this pregnancy was planned or expected or wanted. 'If people actually think about what they're asking when they ask that. Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s a woman doing. The magic nigger is the always-second-billed star of movies like The Green Mile. If the movies were better, you start to suspect, maybe they wouldn’t need the lame hook. The greeting card holiday is where studios always seem to dump mediocre material that happen to have women at the center. The final film also credits Peter Craig and Andrea Berloff for the script.īut history has unfortunately taught us to be suspect of a Mother’s Day rollout. We then flip back to 1970, and to the younger Freddieborn Farrokh Bulsara, in Zanzibar, and educated partly at a boarding school in India, but now dwelling in the London suburbs. And, eventually, with Niki Caro signed on to direct and a movie star like Lopez on board to star and produce, it was enough for greenlight and a Netflix budget. ‘School of Rock’ Paramount Jack Black was at the peak of his fame when he landed the role of Dewey Finn, a 30-something loser with huge rock & roll dreams. There were condescending headlines propping it up as a “female empowerment” script. Misha Green’s script was a hot commodity in 2017, around the time “Wonder Woman” opened, which had left some studios scrambling for action movies fronted by women. The movie is a high-concept thriller that boils down to just a few words: She’s a mother and an assassin. The most interesting part of “ The Mother,” a decent if forgettable action pic starring Jennifer Lopez, is the one that is left largely unexplored.
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