It’s been nearly seven years since Joe Carnahan’as last film, but the stylistic hallmarks of his work remain unmistakable.
The director of muscular genre fare has always had a feel for composition and camera movement a cut above some of his peers.
In movies like “Smokin’ Aces” and “The Grey,” he achieved a level of impressionistic immersion through rapid editing, but never sacrificed clarity and continuity — the action in his movies always makes spatial sense, even if it’s the camera bobbing above the whitecaps of a roaring river, as Liam Neeson gets half-drowned in some deadly rapids.That knack for clarity and continuity makes Carnahan an ideal fit for a time-loop movie.
And “Boss Level,” a passion project he’s been developing since at least 2012, is a solid one.
Frank Grillo stars as Roy, an ex-Special Forces badass so committed to tracking down evildoers in the line
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