In “Duro de cuidar” two things are impressive: the quality of the cast and the number of cars, boats and motorcycles that can be destroyed before the astonished eyes of the spectator to cover, barely, no more than five minutes of film.
The casting director had the luxury of selecting Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek and Gary Oldman for the main roles but completed the cast with Elodie Yung, Joaquim de Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell, Joséphine de La Baume, Sam Hazeldine, Joelle Koissi, Barry Atsma, Abbey Hoes, Halima Nagori, Karl Farrer and Mikhail Gorevoy.
Ryan Reynolds is the undisputed star of a security agency capable of guaranteeing the transport of politicians, athletes, businessmen and any important person with the certainty that, even if an entire army is chasing them, they will arrive at their destination safe and sound.
However, one of these operations ends with the death of the guarded person and Michael Bryce – that is the name of the character played by RR – goes through a difficult time from which he is rescued by being assigned an impossible mission: to take Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson), a hitman, to court so that he can testify in the trial against the bloody dictator Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman).
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While Kincaid is being escorted to court, his convoy is ambushed and only he and agent Amelia Roussel (Élodie Yung) survive.
Amelia had a complicated past with Bryce, but he is the only person she trusts to escape the situation alive and fulfill her mission of bringing the killer to give his testimony.
The chases and deaths, however, occur in the characteristic tone of action comedies when the boy shoots enough ammunition to kill half the city’s population while telling jokes or famous sayings.
There is good music, a magnetic relationship between Reynolds and Jackson and a perfect Gary Olman, as always, laughing internally at the Belarusian dictator he was lucky enough to have – dictators are always from that area, a remnant of the golden age of the Cold War – as evil as hemlock.
Although everyone manages to make time pass quickly, if by some fortuitous circumstance the viewer has not yet been won over, they will be with the images of the car and motorcycle chase of a boat in the middle of one of the canals of Amsterdam.
It was directed by Australian Patrick Hughes and is on Netflix.
