Beatrix also constantly rolls her eyes at Delacroix’s tough guy posturing, like when she asks him if he really just said “T-minus” while debriefing his team of field agents. There’s also some promising but half-baked commentary about the secondary roles played by the movie’s women, as when Gwendoline points out during a climactic moment - and despite Sebastian’s protests - that she did previously explain to her teammates that she preemptively disarmed trigger-happy Brad.
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Mostly because there’s not much chemistry between the four main leads, and their characters’ distinguishing motives are never illustrated beyond placeholder dialogue - like when Korina asks Sebastian: “So you want to make out or whatever?” That line could have worked in the context of a movie that was actually sexy enough to be coy instead, that dangling “or whatever” feels like an admission of creative defeat. This inevitably divides Gwendoline’s team, though that only really becomes a problem later on, when they inevitably must avoid being captured by preening Interpol agent Delacroix (Jonathan Cohen) and his frustrated subordinate Beatrix (Noémie Nakai).Īnd yet, somehow, neither Delacroix’s presence nor Brad’s competition add a great sense of urgency to the movie’s pokey (but scenic!) international chase, which kicks off in Potsdam, Germany and climaxes in Saint Moritz, Switzerland. Sebastian and Gwendoline also form an awkward love quadrangle with two of their fellow thieves - hothead man-of-action Brad (Stuart Martin) and flirty security expert Korina (Ruby O.
Schweighöfer’s character never develops enough to provide answers either, since he’s usually stuck doing shy-foreign-guy schtick Sebastian is pretty much always the guy who asks Gwendoline if he’s being “spunked” when she invites him to join her safecracking gang, as if the Ashton Kutcher–led prank show “Punk’d” were still somehow a universal cultural touchstone. Watch the Wild First Trailer for ‘Army of the Dead’ Prequel ‘Army of Thieves’ (Video)
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