At times, people’s fates are intertwined as a result of the fact that this or that person is in the wrong place and at the wrong time ... or still in that? Five elderly people intend to rob an industrial warehouse in order to live on a large scale. And all sorts of heroes provided - cut off the telephone connection in the district, bypassed video cameras, penetrated the warehouse, tied the guards and it would seem that everything - it was possible to celebrate the victory, but at this very moment the gates of the warehouse were rammed by an army armored car, which was pursued by heavily armed mercenaries of Albanian appearance. As it turned out later, this armored car was carrying an international criminal, an arms dealer, the owner of brothels, well, as is the custom of a man snatched to his head - Abidine Nexep. And now the hapless thieves are forced to team up with the surviving special forces in order to hold out until help arrives. The only question is: will she come?
The first thing I noticed when the film first fell into my raking hands was the starring role of Sami Naseri, remembered for his role as Daniel Morales from the quadrology of Taxi. And of course, from such an actor, but with such a plot, you expect a film in the best traditions of the German criminal comedy Velcro. What was my surprise when it turned out that there will be no comedic elements in the film and moreover, the role of Sami Naseri is far from leading and he was here rather to attract the attention of the mass audience. Well, the picture has been able to surprise twice already and this is a good sign. But what does it look like?
A criminal action movie that tries to please both the audience that grew up on old-school fighters with the participation of Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Van Damme, and the audience who prefer the militants of the new generation, where the main characters can boast something more than a square chin, an icy shine in the eyes, and a machine gun in each hand. In other words, we have heroes who have both the past and the present and who look to the future with hope, but at the same time they are not in a hurry to share details from their lives and only thanks to randomly thrown phrases, and a whole range of emotions that is reflected in the faces of the actors, you can guess what is eating this or that character and why he does so, and not otherwise. For example, a group of five robbers, about whom we know almost nothing, except one – a screenwriter, and with him and the actors are trying to emphasize that failed thieves are for each other a second family. And they do. Or an elderly security guard, Louis, who at the beginning of the film looks sadly at the photo of his deceased daughter, gives a fleeting glance at his house, as if knowing that he will not come back here and go to work. And this seemingly short scene already disposes to this hero. And so literally with every character.
On the other hand, we have almost non-stop action, in which the dull, but terrible, Albanians repeatedly try to storm the industrial warehouse. Moreover, the mercenary must be given due - as soon as they lose a dozen soldiers, they immediately begin to act more cautiously and look for workarounds. True, with the instinct of self-preservation, they still have trouble, but not for nothing I said that the film reeks of militants from the eighties. And it is necessary to give the creators of the picture credit, despite the fact that the Albanians appeared as rather stupid people, but there will be no superheroes among the central and not very characters. These are ordinary people, with their fears and experiences, who are not in a hurry to climb and who hope to survive this night. Yes, of course, from the number of victims that the heroes will see, any person would run in the bush to get rid of dinner, but again we still have a work of art, so he is forgiven.
Thus, before the viewer there is a qualitatively shot action movie, which keeps in suspense from the first to the last frame and in which the actors were able to successfully embody their heroes on the screen. Well, if so, the "Wasp Nest" is perfect for passing the evening both alone and in the campaign of friends.
7 out of 10