Wannabe Léon: The Professional

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2020)

I love Denzel Washington & almost all his movies, he has a particular charm to him, especially in Equalizer, Flight & Inside Man. I love him even as a bad arrogant man, because his acting is on point, even if the movie itself isn't great. That's why I hated him, or rather his character in Training Day, but because of his good acting.
This movie though, unfortunately lost me completely on the stupid editing, plus the diabolical background sound, which was nothing short of cacophony, even when the credits roll. Even horror movies can do better and make cacophony sound as euphony. I don't know if it took a toll on me because of my ADHD or what (anyone else out there?), but never have I ever been so starved of entertainment in order to like this movie so desperately, just because it uses a unique style & technique, and I never will. A similar technique was later used in the show "Narcos", which was way cleaner, and I loved it, because it made sense to use it, unlike here.
Among around 900 top movies I've seen so far, entirely from the beginning to the end, with all my focus, I've never found any other movies as seriously irritating as :
1. Pitch Black
2. Man on Fire.
And for both, 75% of the reason was because of the annoying editing. Man on Fire has a better story atleast, and I can't complain about the acting as well, but the choppy editing disconnects you so much that your suspension of disbelief just goes away & you disconnect & now realize that you are just watching a movie, constantly, instead of being invested in the story - and that's never a sign of a good film! Many things just feel like they are happening randomly.
This movie wasn't coherent, it felt like a wannabe Leon the Professional, a wannabe biography (ending), but I still rate it 6 because it was not as bad as Pitch Black. Pitch Black was an absolute hell of an emotional torture, plus it's a nightmare for anyone with serious epilepsy! The very mention of it generates an unfathomable wrath within me, especially because I still can't figure out how did so many people love it so much when myriads of better movies exist. Do they really have no other option, or do they really watch a movie once in a blue moon, that they find disgusting B movies cool. If you wanna watch good B movies, watch Tarantino!
Sorry for the tangential digression though.