A MEAT AVENGER
The Russo brothers, not content with having brought the MCU to the firmament of the box office, would retrain well in the muscular action film. In fact, alongside Manhattan Lockdown, the duo produced Tyler Rake, an adaptation of the graphic novel Ciudad, which they had previously co-written. They find for the occasion Chris Hemsworth, whom they directed at the Avengers, and relocate the action to Bangladesh, undoubtedly to address in their own way the problem of global overpopulation.
Perhaps a little tired of framing planetary blockbusters whose insults, organic violence and liters of hemoglobins are banned, the Russos entrusted the staging to Sam Hargrave, former coordinator of stunts. And as soon as the first mandals are exchanged, as soon as the first molars are spit out, the equation behind this eminently keen team becomes clear. With his basic scenario of escape, redemption and super-combatant capable of peeling a platoon of Cossacks by sneezing, the idea is of course to duplicate John Wick's success.
Hargrave is not mistaken, and if his paw is not exactly that of his colleagues Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, we find in his approach to action a similar philosophy. Not only does he borrow several "tricks", more very fresh but always pleasing (point-blank reloads, combos choreographies in three stages, as brief as brutal, etc.), but we feel that he breathes a good fluidity into the camera.
TYLER THE MURDERATOR
Thus, as a pure action film, Tyler Rake is a success devoid of originality, but one which very well honors the contract with its spectator. In 117 minutes, mouths smashing and other wild disgorgements are legion, perpetual explosions, and the shootings still legible. Less feline than Keanu Reeves, Chris Hemsworth is perfectly credible as a brute fed on hormones and massaged in beer. The staging having the good idea of always opposing opponents symbolically or physically opposite to his physique and his character, he can give himself to heart.
And when the intrigue seems to take on a kind of tropism turned towards defiled childhood and its consequences, we even come to think that Tyler Rake has a real card to play in terms of raw action. The story is thus interspersed with frank successes, like a street fight between the mercenary and children, which forced him to hold back ...
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