Freelance

Freelance

An ex special forces operative stuck in a dead-end desk job reluctantly takes on a gig to provide private security for a washed-up journalist as she interviews a ruthless—but impeccably dressed—dictator. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle, the assassins and each other in order to make it out alive.

  • Released: 2023-08-25
  • Runtime: 109 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Comedy
  • Stars: Alice Eve, Christian Slater, Juan Pablo Raba, John Cena, Marton Csokas, Alison Brie
  • Director: Pierre Morel
 Comments
  • neverdahljan - 22 June 2024
    Cute movie!
    This is the second John Cena movie I've watched and both times I was pleasantly surprised. He's funny and endearing. I guess it was low budget, but it was fun to watch. The plot was good even if predictable; I'm a sucker for happy endings! It would be fun to see a Freelance II with the the three major characters. The chemistry is there and it could be sort of a "buddy movie." I don't understand the bad reviews written by others; it wasn't "War and Peace", but it was very entertaining. There are other movies with big stars, (Sandra Bullock, Brooke Shields, etc.), who have starred in the same type of genre and the movies weren't as good as this one.
  • Viking131313 - 25 April 2024
    Not the greatest movie ever, but still a fun watch
    I went into this not expecting much. I figured I'd probably wind up turning it off after the first 15 minutes, but it turned out to be better than I expected.

    There is a good amount of well, played dry humor. Cena did the job you have come to expect from him. Some of the plot points were pretty awful, yet they managed to keep my interest. Juan Pablo Raba was fantastic in the part of the dictator. He played the part with a great sense of humor, and really kept the movie going. Raba is truly the only serious actor in this movie, and his skills turned it into a movie worth watching. I'm not a fan of Brie, and she didn't do anything in this to make me change my mind. Brie was simply window dressing to provide the ability for the real star, Raba, to achieve his story line.
  • DozyDelver - 10 March 2024
    Was this written by AI?
    The Dialogue in this movie is garbage. It seriously made me wonder if it had been written by AI. It talked about everything in the way a learning child would, repeating things to state this was what it was stating, just like AI does.

    The scenes had a really weird flow where all of a sudden there are changes in the scene and the character's demeanour without anything being set up, and it all had that 'then everything changed because now this happened' kind of plot logic, which is exactly the same kind of nonsensical rubbish that AI creates.

    It was labelled an action comedy and yet there wasn't any comedy at all really, and the action was absent for the most part.

    It is just weird and not very entertaining.