Samuel L Jackson Month - Mini Review: Meeting Evil

*sighs* welcome to the final edition of Samuel L Jackson Month

Maybe I should’ve reviewed The Spirit, at least Samuel L Jackson’s over the top acting and the bonkers script would’ve made it entertaining. But I digress, Meeting Evil

  

Released in 2012, this boasts a 12% rating on rotten tomatoes with an average 2.6/10 and an audience approval rating of 31%. But that doesn’t matter, let’s just dive in

So, a man named John Felton (Luke Wilson) is taken on a joyride from hell by a guy named Richie (Samuel L Jackson) who proceeds to murder people for being impolite or rude and basically he’s a ghost so Felton is initially blamed but after escaping his family becomes a target and it’s a race to save them

You know, Paul Dani did a run on Detective Comics comprising of mostly one-shot stories and 2-parters. One of my favourite of those is when the Joker ends up kidnapping Tim Drake and taking him on a joyride from hell where he kills people for various reasons. The one great thing about it, it’s short! It’s only 1 issue, a nice little Christmas Special.

There are 2 reasons why I’m bringing this up, first it’s to avoid talking about this exceptionally boring movie. The second… this movie is exceptionally boring and takes a premise and stretches it to its absolute limit.

It’s worse than bad in that it’s boring. But I suppose I should talk about our two main leads. John Felton is a lying, cheating, loser who lost his job for cheating on his wife with his boss’ partner and now is completely screwed to the point where his wife, who is also having an affair, hires a hitman to kill him. I know they deliberately leave it ambiguous whether or not that’s the truth but it lines up with what we see in the movie so I’m going to assume it is. 

And when he finds out about this betrayal he… does nothing. Sounds perfectly in tune with this movie.

Samuel L Jackson is a murderous psychopath assassin – and that’s him done and that’s really it with notable characters. I suppose there’s the no-nonsense cop, the other no nonsense cop, the girl John was cheating with and... oh the 2 children, their role was so memorable like… and… and then… 

I'm done here, f*ck this movie!

Rating 20/100

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