A smoke jumper and a 12-year-old boy fight for their lives as two assassins pursue them through the wilderness.Fire is a natural enemy that we know all too well - it can hit close to home in our mountains and forests, and its destructive forces can even be felt beyond our borders. But it can also symbolise rebirth - just as the Western Cape's fynbos depends on its flames for new life..
While the fire destroys everything around her, it also ends up cauterising her old wounds. In other films, I sometimes hate how women characters are first made to suffer before finding their supposedly hidden strength, but here she already knows the power she holds and how it can save others. Jolie poured a lot of herself into this role, and her tenderness towards her young costar Finn Little elevates this film beyond a pure action film.
As for the assassins, it was a bit weird to see Nicholas Hoult as this cold-blooded killer, but that vacant stare and unflinching focus on completing the mission sold him as a cool-and-collected psychopath. His partner/father, played byleast favourite, Aidan Gillen, balanced out this pure focus as someone constantly on the edge of a murderous rampage every time something goes wrong. They are good at what they do, and they're not laid out as bungling henchmen .
My one criticism would be some of the technical aspects of the film. There was a mix of actual fire footage and CGI fire, but you could easily pick the two apart; the fake fire clearly a rush job. Another issue was the sound mixing - the roar of the fire was cut very strangely, going from super loud to super-soft between cuts even though the scene was still the same.
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