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Sidekick character pointless, unnecessary and unfunny
posted by aholejonesSTAFFMOD on June 28, 2017 at 4:05 PM
I know, I know, with the myriad of problems this film had why would anyone care about the "sidekick" played by Jake Johnson. Well, let me just tell you, that it has been ages since I have seen a more useless and unnecessary role in a film. I assume he was brought in for some comic relief, but his lines aren't funny at any point and I suppose you can't consider his actions very funny either unless your idea of funny is cowardice or stabbing your boss. Not that any of the other characters were written much better. For instance you have the hotshot recon team going in to a close quarters battle completely outnumbered with their assault rifles blazing only to abandon their rifles for no logical reason a minute later. I'm not even going to start with Courtney B. Vances portrayal of a military general (or whatever high ranking officer he was)...I think even Chris Rock would've made a more credible leader.
Reply by CraigJamesReview
on July 5, 2017 at 12:11 AM
No, no, I totally agree with you and think he was one of the biggest problems in the film. He really started to grate on me after the first 5 minutes of being on screen and what they do with him for the rest of the film is Jar Jar Binkian- he's that fucking annoying.
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Reply by cpheonix
on September 6, 2017 at 5:22 AM
Seems like they were going for a 'An American Werewolf in London' type comedy with the dead friend following him around. Yeah, it didn't work...or make sense.
Reply by nyxeus
on September 6, 2017 at 11:14 AM
I hated that character.
Reply by tmdb43737777
on September 6, 2017 at 2:26 PM
Its a little over played. Pet semetary and American werewolf have been parioded so much.
Reply by jomarthecat
on November 5, 2017 at 9:24 AM
A bigger problem was that the female lead Jenny (Wallis) also was pointless and unnecessary. She didn't have anything to do and had no significant impact to the plot.
Reply by Richard Caul
on November 6, 2017 at 1:41 PM
100%.The movie was terrible and had a lot of problems.He was definitely one of them."Thanks for bringing me back to life, where are we going?" 😮 Jeezus!