I’ve tried to watch 3 new movies today – **Vanquish (2021), Nobody (2021), The Courier (2021)**. They have one thing in common - we're (back) in the very familiar political era where Russians are again the biggest and most amoral, vicious, evil ever. Here is the formula - _(A[Popular character actor]) + (B[Video game plot]) + (C[Russian villains)_ = 2021 Hollywood movies. These movies offset the eyeroll-worthy ugliness of a 2021 film being about an American gleefully slaughtering a bunch of Russians. A heinous laundering of American liberal chauvinism. They cater to a single demographic, and relies on unoriginal content to cover up the fact they are way too masturbatory that nobody outside of the target audience can relate. But this is the future of American cinema, we are just going to constantly recycle the same themes and topics over and over again until the end of time.

**Nobody (2021)** and **Vanquish (2021)** are basically the same movie. RIP Mexican (or other Latin American) drug lords, you no longer exist in Hollywood world because you might hurt sensitive American feelings. Now it’s all about Russian mafia. The only difference is that in **Vanquish (2021)**, the American murderer is a woman. Oh, ~~ diversity. I wish studios would stop trying to make Ruby Rose happen.

Slow-mo fighting scenes with background music - that's the movie. No context or explanation. Just scene, after scene, after scene that all make no sense.

I'm reminded of Dziga Vertov's comment on Western Cinema from 99 years ago.
> _“To the American adventure film with its showy dynamism and to the dramatizations of the American Pinkertons the Kinoks say thanks for the rapid shot changes and the close-ups. Good…but disorderly, not based on a precise study of movement…still lacking a foundation. **A cliche**.”_