The Courier 2019

Don't shoot the messenger.

6.0 / 10   520 vote(s)
R
Action Thriller Adventure Crime

Ezekiel Mannings, a vicious crime boss, is out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

Homepage https://www.signature-entertainment.co.uk/film/the-courier/
Release Date 2019-11-22
Runtime 1h 39m
Directors Michel Abramowicz, Zackary Adler, Jon Shaikh, Antonia Carter, Adam Hall, Andy Gradwell, Tom Westgate
Producers Zackary Adler, James Edward Barker, Wayne Marc Godfrey, Tiernan Hanby, Andrew Prendergast, Alain Galès, Marc Goldberg, Elizabeth Williams, David Haring
Writers Zackary Adler, James Edward Barker, Andy Conway, Nicky Tate

Half decent action-thriller though the dialogue was poor and the performance by the lead henchman (played by William Moseley), a proxy antagonist with Gary Oldman's character under "house arrest", was awful and came across as a whiny bitch than anything intimidating.

On the plus side, I did like both Olga Kurylenko and Amit Shah, and Oldman for his part, which he likely filmed all of his scenes in one day, had his moments, at least.

The fight choreography wasn't bad and did like they avoided using CGI blood splatter too much and used actual squids instead. All in all, it wasn't terrible and served as a passable action-thriller. 3.0/5

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