PRAISE : Watching this flick I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't push for it to come out on February 14th but then i remembered the competition they would have been facing. This quick action romp about Marvin a Milwaukee realtor who receives a crimson envelope and its pure bloody mayhem from there, has a few things going for it.As Marvin Gable at least Ke Huy Quan is believable in some aspects. As Rose Carlisle, Ariana DeBose is once again fun to look at in various stages of dress in an action movie. It was nice to see Lio Tipton in a movie again. My interest was held long enough to want to know why characters needed to be wrangled in and why other characters were trying to avoid each other. Some of the hand to hand fights were fun and I admire Quan and everyone else going through the choreographed fights which likely took a physical toll. I did get some joy out of two obnoxious characters being pummeled and stabbed.
PROBLEMS: Quan and DeBose have zero chemistry. In the middle of all the mayhem one characters decision to keep doing something was far to silly for me and I guess the aforementioned putting characters in jeopardy was supposed to be funny. Silly henchmen/assassin's overdoing everything with no subtly was lame. The ultra predictable moments are plentiful as soon as two characters met in knew what was going to happen.Three writers couldn't come up with a good foundation to work from for the audience to make something about the characters attachment believable I can't believe it took three writers to form the screen play for a flick that made me look at my watch ten times.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 4