1 min readAug 6, 2020
I put the commercial failure of this film down to "badass fatigue". It suffered from the same problem as Skyfall: we don't want to know how a badass was before he was a badass. It's one thing to see a photo of George Clooney from high school when you're waiting for the movie to start at a megaplex, but it's quite another to endure the systematic tear-down of a beloved character. Patton Oswalt said it best. Watch for the seciton around 1:10
