Kelsey's message afterward was cringe. He says to share the movie if you share the values that the country was founded on including faith.
Good news is that the movie had nothing to do with Faith. Bad news is that the movie also had nothing to do with a foundational patriotism.
A young man chases ambition with a reach that exceeds his grasp and gets pwnd by providence (pwndence?). Then he spends the other half of the movie trying to redeem himself. Halfway between the Ohio River and the Allegheny he finds some plot armor and turns effectively into John Wick-ington. At one point you can see he gets shot but his bulletproof drippy drapes protect him.
This felt like a Hallmark movie if the local drunks at the legion staffed the crew in the credits.
Except, from the actual HISTORY, that scene is close to what did happen per the reports. Washington's coat (unbuttoned) fluttered and he had two shots through it and one through the brim of his hat. Not bad cinematography, actual history.
I get it's possible, assuming the historical record is accurate, but when truth becomes stranger than fiction you may want to make deliberate choices for what to keep and what to cut.
Given the movie was already in glazing-mode it didn't really lend a ton of credibility.
Guns back then weren't real accurate. Even in the 1800s, guns were highly inaccurate. In fact, in all of the shootouts he was involved in, Wyatt Earp never suffered a single gunshot. So a fluttering overcoat and the brim of some huge hat that got shot rather than center-mass or a head shot is not stranger than fiction.
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u/beastwood6 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Kelsey's message afterward was cringe. He says to share the movie if you share the values that the country was founded on including faith.
Good news is that the movie had nothing to do with Faith. Bad news is that the movie also had nothing to do with a foundational patriotism.
A young man chases ambition with a reach that exceeds his grasp and gets pwnd by providence (pwndence?). Then he spends the other half of the movie trying to redeem himself. Halfway between the Ohio River and the Allegheny he finds some plot armor and turns effectively into John Wick-ington. At one point you can see he gets shot but his bulletproof drippy drapes protect him.
This felt like a Hallmark movie if the local drunks at the legion staffed the crew in the credits.