By Robert Scucci | Published
Whenever I hear someone say: “They don’t make action movies as they did”, I immediately think of Sylvester Stallone Above; The only film I can think of from the top of my head which plunges so fiercely into the world of competitive arm struggle. If you are wondering how devil, a premise on the wrestling of the arms can be stretched in feature film territory, then get attached because there are also trucks, car prosecutions and a remote father and son binding On the road as they try to understand their life, a rest steak dinner at the same time.
Having lost the account on the number of times I have looked at Above After my most recent visualization, I must say that I am always very impressed by the way in which such a ridiculous concept can lead to such a satisfactory story on guts and glory, while emphasizing the importance of the family in a way Who would make Dominic Toretto Second Guess himself.
A story about a father and his son
If you have never had the pleasure of watching AboveYou miss you because there is nothing like a Sylvester Stallone in the face of stone which clings and striking with its self -weight and mobile weight while accumulating a serious mileage to win the day and erase its name.
Above Focus on Lincoln “Linc” Hawk by Sylvester Stallone, a truck driver with a checkered past that led him to leave behind his sickly wife, Christina (Susan Blakely), and her son Mike (David Mendenhall). Linc has a golden heart, does not want anything more than finding his distant son, and jumps at the opportunity to come and seek him at the military school at the request of Christina – an act that her father, Jason Cutler ( Robert Loggia), disapprove, disapprove. Because he has never approved Linc’s lifestyle. Mike, a military kid with the best order who has every reason to be wary of his father’s intentions, reluctantly accepts to get into his truck and make the Colorado trip to California to see his sick mother.
Right next to the Rip, Linc and Mike Butt heads because Mike has reason to believe that his father is an intellectually dark and drug dog who chose to abandon his family when they needed him. But as the father and the son get to know each other, it becomes clear that Jason’s stories on Linc have been mainly manufactured because Jason wants the unique guard on Mike if Christina succumbs to his illness. Although Mike ends up dropping his guard on his old man, their reunion is not without complications, because Jason is continuously trying to find ways to separate them for his own selfish reasons.
On top is exaggerated
Now that we have been Up History of pastry and sentimental dough away, we can finally enter the real meat and the potatoes that this film has to offer: the struggle of the arms!
While Above is, in his heart, a story on the unbreakable link between a father and his son, there is also a world armament championship in Las Vegas that the whole film is based. Linc, who enters the ARM wrestling competitions during the road to pass the time and earn additional money, wants to go for gold when entering the competition so that he can possibly get into business for himself . Mike, who initially thinks that his father is a scammer, slowly begins to understand his motivations, because he does everything to build a stable life because he also tries to take care of his son.
Between competitions not punished with silly antagonists, like Smasher “, at Truck Stop Diners, Linc teaches Mike how to drive a truck, which is much more difficult than the boy initially supposed, as well as to get up for himself when It is intimidated because, as Linc says, “no one meets you halfway.”
Each source of conflict in Above Culminates during the World Cabiners Championship – a Volvo truck valued at $ 250,000 and a cash price of $ 100,000. Hoping that his patented “exaggerated” method will obtain a victory AboveLinc knows that he must challenge every chance to stay in the good graces of his son, even if Jason stops nothing to ensure his failure.
Not many thinkers
Above is one of those films that puts all his cards on the table so that you never have to guess yourself or its premise, which is a little refreshing given how so many films like to rely today On fanciful things like “subtext” and “Buduilding. Sometimes you just want to turn off your brain and watch who you know that the right guy gets his flowers because he’s doing his best, and that’s exactly what you get with Above. And if you are one of those nail bites in the third act when the competition becomes difficult, do not worry, because the advertiser during the World Coast Championship will constantly reassure you that one loss is not The end of the world because it is actually, a challenge with double elimination.
East Above A total cheese party? You Betcha. But there is nothing wrong with a sporting action film with a thin premise of razor as long as it has a lot of heart to give it a semblance of substance. At the very least, we obtained this clip by Manchester Orchestra for “Shake It Out” which is a fairly faithful recreation of the film in question while being a total banger.
To date, you can broadcast Above free on Tubi.
