![]() ![]() Wobbling along a very thin line between knowingly silly heist shenanigans and derelict trash is writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber, responsible for Dodgeball and two of Johnson’s previous vehicles, Central Intelligence and Skyscraper. Weirdly, we’re told Cleo had a fetish for what look exactly like Fabergé eggs, beating the Russian royals to this glitzy fad by a couple of thousand years, but the notion is hardly any more ridiculous than anything else in the script. There are three identical ones in this flick, scattered treasures from Cleopatra’s tomb. He and two fellow treasure hunters ( Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot) are raiding a long-abandoned Nazi bunker, which might as well be a lost ark, somewhere beneath the Argentinian jungle.Ī MacGuffin, as Hitchcock would remind you, is any object that drives the plot forward just because everyone wants it. “Look for a box that says ‘MacGuffin’,” quips Ryan Reynolds in Netflix’s smirk-stuffed action comedy Red Notice. ![]()
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