Are you saying bad karma? I'm gonna have bad karma if I keep watching Dominic Purcell! Revenge. The subject is quite specific. On the one hand, we have morally ethnic norms and rules that have been hammered into a person’s head since childhood and which boil down to the fact that an attempt to repay evil will lead to nothing good. There is a grain of truth in this, for what you have done to another person will return to you sooner or later, and then there will be retribution. On the other hand, when your whole family is brutally slaughtered and you are sent to prison, you somehow do not think about the eternal. You're more concerned that you're locked up, and the scumbag that treated you like this is walking free. And our guest today, as you might have guessed, is about revenge. So this is "bad karma."
Our history is as old as the world. Two old friends Maloi and Mack decide to get rich quickly through illegal activities aimed at drug dealers. In other words, our heroes are going to rob them. It’s risky, but generally noble. After all, drug dealers themselves profit from the mountain of ordinary people, and it would be fair if they themselves were a little bit “pipped”. Naturally, the plan was stupidly simple - to come, see, carry. That's just Mac decided not to wait for his friend decides to rob drug dealers alone and breaks into the epicenter of the police operation. Naturally, Mac is arrested and sent for three long years to places not so remote. What about Little? And the hero of Ray Liotta, who went to the meeting place, a little troubled, and he had a heart attack after which the hero was in an accident ramming the pharmacy. When Maloy came to his senses, the first thing he saw was a charming nurse who, in a honeymooned voice, sang that taking drugs was bad. And you won’t believe it, but the hardened addict was so impressed by these words that he decided to become a worthy member of society. And everything would be fine, but after three years, Mack leaves prison, who believes that his “partner” set him up and intends to pay Malloy back with the same coin. Yes, apparently, in prison Maku knocked off the last brains ...
Well, naturally, from such a plot plot plot you expect an epic confrontation between the heroes Purcell and Liotta. Waiting for shootings, explosions, mutual accusations and scenes of hand-to-hand combat. Ultimately, I've seen with a glut of movies involving both of these actors, and I can say with confidence that these guys can kick each other a fifth point. But here's the thing, despite the fact that this picture is entirely made up of stamps and borrowings in it is not the main thing. It's not action. What is it? The main character is a thief and drug addict who has heart problems. And despite such a repulsive description, such characters are able to hook the viewer for the living, remember at least Jesse Pinkmar from the TV series “Breaking Bad” or Eddie Dean from the film epic “The Dark Tower”. And I am interested to see how this kind of heroes try to cope with both everyday problems and psychological problems, whether it is an attempt to give up drugs once and for all or the opportunity to establish a romantic relationship with the opposite sex on a permanent basis. But then the viewer is waiting for another disappointment, because Malaya almost from the very beginning appears before us as a worthy member of society. He doesn’t take drugs anymore and doesn’t even take drugs. Moly already has a girlfriend, an apartment and a permanent job. Well, the bailiff comes in from time to time, but he doesn't play any role in the plot, so you can ignore him. And all this is presented to the viewer as a matter of course. No prelude to you, but just a little life suddenly improved after his attempt to ram the pharmacy? Well, then why would you dress Ray Liotta's character in scum at the beginning if it didn't affect the plot? Why try to get the viewer to empathize with Liotta's character when the latter is doing well? And Ray Liotta himself is not even trying to play. Well, the police are looking for him, in any case, the screenwriter is trying to convince us of this, the madman threatens him with an imminent death, and his wife is about to learn the terrible secret of Malov, but not a single muscle twitched on the actors’ face. Emotions? No, I haven't.
What about Dominic Purcell? After all, the hero, and in our case the anti-hero, released / escaped from prison in order to take revenge on his old friend should cause a lot of feelings and emotions. And yes, the writers are really trying to pass Mac off as a deep and interesting character. So he took security footage from the store he robbed. The fact that the security room was not the most important, namely the guard, I do not even want to say, because the film is already stupid enough. Then Mack talks to Malov’s wife and whether he is trying to push her, or not, is not clear. I guess the writers didn’t understand what they wanted to show. And to top it off, the secondary character, who is given five minutes in the film, tells what a dangerous man Mac is. And all nothing, but after five minutes, the viewer is shown that Purcell's hero is an incompetent jerk that can not cope with a frightened man waving a revolver in different directions. Oh yes, the hero of Dominic Purcell is really worth fearing!
There is much more to be said about this film. And about the fact that secondary actors behave extremely inadequately, and about disgustingly composed dialogues and music that is more annoying than it comes to the place and that the storyline with drug dealers has not received proper development. There's a lot to talk about, but I have to be brief. So, "Bad Karma" is a boring and monotonous spectacle from the vision of which you want to sleep. So my advice to you is to watch another good movie. Or go out for a walk with friends, the good weather contributes to this.
2 out of 10