Samaritan review: Is Umbrella Academy star's superhero movie worth a watch?
Superhero movies are everywhere these days, but it's rare to find one that's based on an original concept.is just that – although the writer Bragi F Schut has since adapted it into a series of graphic novels – and with Sylvester Stallone in the lead role, it seemed a promising combo.
However, from the moment we're told that Granite City – the fictional setting for the movie – is a place where crime is on the rise and there's a class divide , it becomes clear that the concept might be original, but the execution anything but. There's nothing inherently wrong with homaging other classic superhero outings, but the story you tell has to be engaging enough to overlook the familiarity.Prime VideoIt's not the best indication when the title sequence is one of the highlights of the movie. The background we need is given in an animated, comic book-inspired sequence as we're told that Samaritan and Nemesis became sworn enemies, leading to a fatal fight two decades earlier that resulted in their deaths.
13-year-old Sam doesn't believe that Granite City's hero is as dead as everybody believes though. In fact, he comes to suspect that his reclusive neighbour Joe Smith is Samaritan and that he's the city's only hope against a violent uprising, led by gangster Cyrus (
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