‘Forces of Nature’ Review – Various

Hurricanes in five categories were the smallest to encounter the letter “force of nature.” Founded in Puerto Rico during such a storm, the thriller from director Michael Polish got Emil Hirch as a police officer to protect the occupants of an apartment building (including Kate Bosworth and Mel Gibson) from a gang of thieves. Yet more complex issues, from wildlife to the spoils of the Nazi war, are thrown into Corey Miller’s first produced feature screenplay’s busiest hopper. None of this is particularly believable, let alone memorable, but it works with enough energy and humor to make a night enjoyable. Lionsgate is releasing on July 30 in U.S. home formats.

After a small symptom of Jibsan’s ex-police character taking a camouflage shot during a torrential downpour (the film again takes the middle ground), we’ll rewind for eight hours to clear the blue sky, as floodwaters threaten to flood, mud and 140 Expected to wind up.

San Juan police have been ordered to forcibly detain any hold in vulnerable areas, including self-confident former NYPD veteran Cardillo (Hirch) and aspiring-action-resistant Pena (Peruvian actress / pop star Stephanie Cayo) in her first English-language role. ) To fold. They caught a black man (Will Catlett Griffin) trying to buy 100 pounds of meat in a supermarket panicked. When he tells them he needs to feed his “pets,” and there is a couple who refuse to leave their flats, officials agree to stop at his apartment complex.

There Griffin promises more or less exactly what they find: keeping far-flung pet carnivores behind heavy barrier doors; An elderly gentleman (Georgie Louis Ramos ‘Bergcamp’) behind his own suspiciously high-security barrier; And Ray (Gibson), a retired Mainland policeman in good spirits, but in poor health. The doctor’s daughter, Troy (Bosworth), insisted he would end up in hospital, but he refused to leave.

Taking all these resilient people out of safety will be difficult enough as the storm is now completely gone. But once John (David Joyce) and his birds are refreshed from killing two people while working in a bank, it becomes much more complicated. They are barbarians who have pulled off several high-end histories in recent weeks. Their local shopping list will not be complete without acquiring valuable items because they are sure that one of the local residents has become isolated.

When Cardillo sees them exploding the unfortunate super of the building, he quickly shakes up the good guys: half-a-dozen well-equipped killers. The presence of two active policemen, albeit a slight disagreement; The personal arsenal of Bergkamp weapons of sorts of secret survival; Troy’s treatment skills, which often begin to hurt; And Roy, who may be on dialysis but some thugs don’t let his life span shorten, or want to deny himself the pleasure of ruining himself.

Although various offscreen antiques have permanently removed him from the industry’s A-list (as an actor if not a director), Gibson still long excels in his role as a personal featured crankcase, most famously in the “Lethal Weapon” series. . It’s not much of a motivating move here to frustrate her child (or her role is even bigger) but she does help to make it fun by “forcing” it without taking it seriously. Ditto Hirsch, whose protagonist is a virtual ray-in-training junior Mistrop, was bitterly saddened by the inevitable tragic on-duty backstory. Cardillo is softened by a romantic outburst with Boseworth’s Troy, and the movie intelligently decides to leave their mocking court – moving forward in moments like sewing his bullet wound – acting as a joke.

David Lynchin The effects of his early features are now well behind him, showing no great stimulus for Polish suspense or violent action. He does, however, keep this potbiller moving enough to keep the overly heavy plot away from foolishness, and the cast is strong enough to skate in the occasional duff dialogue.

While the location shot in Puerto Rico is largely confined to a six-story setting, the film allows the director to retain some of his previous art-house style only in the visual world. Which is good for everyone – this Action B image production designer Mylara Santana invites splashes of idiosyncratic color in the interior of the apartment and in the light of the wide screen compositions of DP Jason Craders.