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Alan Ritchson was great in this.


He was properly huge. Looked even bigger than Reacher season 1. And his acting was a lot more natural. He's just what we need in action cinema. There's a big Arnold size hole there needing to be filled.

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I agree. He has great screen presence.

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My only issue with him was that I don't know why everyone thought it was such a huge shocker/surprise when it was revealed that he was working with Momoa the whole time. From his first scene he seemed like a villain character and I didn't trust him. Even the marketing made it seem like he was a bad guy and on Team Momoa. I honestly believe something happened in 2020 and everyone forgot stuff about movies. Everything seems new/fresh/never done before to everyone (Shoot, I've seen/read people say that M3GAN is the first of it's kind and we need more killer robot/doll movies. Um, hello, Child's Play 1-3 and the remake). I don't know why it was such a shocker/surprise that Aimes was a bad guy. Did everyone get their mind erased/messed with during 2020? Is this a side effect of the vaccine? (I'm not vaccinated) This just frustrates me, and I don't know what's so mind blowing about it.

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What I don't get is...why did Aimes bother to help Dom on the bridge?

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I think it was just to play with customer expectations after Fast Five.

This film is basically Fast Five To The Future Part Two, so anyone seeing him will just see him as this film's the rock. It plays out in exactly the same way with him hunting down Dom, then switching to help Dom in literally the same manner, after their armoured convoy gets attacked.

So at that point, the viewer just accepts him as the new the rock. That sets up the double switcheroo at the end as a surprise...

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