Interceptor
Year: 2022
Rating: R
Length: 99 minutes / 1.65 hours
I heard about this movie from some co-workers and I decided to turn my mind off for a night and watch it. I’m glad that it was on Netflix because I would not have paid money to see this generic action thriller. It felt to me like someone was perusing the internet, trying to find interesting military resources to integrate into an action film. Then they found SBX. While this floating military asset is an interesting place to set an action film, there’s nothing special in the plot to really demand it.
A few things I couldn’t get past in this movie were the motivations of the villains and the accent of the main character, Captain Joanna Collins (Elsa Pataky). I had trouble believing a Captain with such a strong eastern-European accent would be as successful in the United States military as she was. Then there are these random scenes with Chris Hemsworth working in a Best Buy. I still don’t know what that was about. If this movie was trying to be Die Hard (1988) on a floating military platform, it wasn’t unique enough to pull it off.
The thing is, Interceptor (2022) could have been a lot better if it wasn’t about terrorists launching missiles to attack the United States. There are moments that feel like they’re on the edge of discussing some seriously under-addressed elements of military life, but then they just gloss over them and make the lead out to be some manly badass instead of a woman who has endured trauma. What a better movie this would have been if it had adequately fought against sexual harassment of women in the military instead of using it as a cheap plot point that didn’t end up meaning anything.
Generic action with extremely brief hints of something much better, I give Interceptor 1.5 stars out of 5.
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