Freelance

10/27/20231h 48m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Retirement didn't suit him. ~

Overview:

An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive.

Director:

Pierre Morel

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$40,000,000.00

Revenue:

$9,112,817.00

Key words:

coup d'etat
dictatorship
political assassination
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investigative journalism
ex special forces
fictional city
bitter
straightforward

Cast

John Cena

~ as ~

Mason Pettits

Alison Brie

~ as ~

Claire Wellington

Juan Pablo Raba

~ as ~

President Juan Venegas

Christian Slater

~ as ~

Sebastian Earle

Alice Eve

~ as ~

Jenny Pettits

Marton Csokas

~ as ~

Colonel Jan Koehorst

Sebastián Eslava

~ as ~

Jorge

Molly McCann

~ as ~

Casey Pettits

Mauricio Cujar

~ as ~

General Martínez

Diego Vásquez

~ as ~

Village Chief

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Reviews (2)

Hooman Shahidi
Written 1 year(s) ago
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Great movie!
CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
5
Hilarious that on the day Amazon announce the introduction of ads (or a 35% uplift in your monthly fee) that this nonsense hits the small screen. It purports to be a comedy, but I'm not sure what language you'd have to be speaking in order to get any humour out of this contrived and weakly devised action "thriller". Journalist "Claire" (Alison Brie) hires security specialist "Mason" (John Cena) to accompany her on a trip to a jungle dictatorship where she is to interview the president. Upon arrival they meet the suave and debonaire "Venegas" (Juan Pablo Raba) who has his own golden gun - a little less subtle than that of Christopher Lee! Anyway, no sooner do they land than they find themselves caught up in a coup led by an ambitious but cowardly nephew and must now traipse through the jungle trying to stay one step ahead of the military and of the mercenaries who may or may not be on someone's side! This is just a badly conceived mess of a film with the mediocre acting matched only by some dreadful dialogue amidst a repetitive series of ambushes, shoot-outs and a denouement that rather summed up this confused and derivative story. It's too long, but I'm not sure where you'd stop cutting if you started, so I'd have to recommend that you just go find an episode or two of the "A Team" and sink some Malbec instead.