![]() It asks a lot of the same questions as They Might Be Giants, though Mace isn’t much of a Don Quixote type. We identify with Mace, we trust Mace, but then Mace stops trusting himself and the audience right along with him has to question whether he made up the whole thing. What I see as the real crux of the movie is that I don’t think any version of reality is meant to be seen as The Truth until the climax. He’s in action hero shape and has a Hollywood skin care regimen, and I’m supposed to believe he’s in danger of getting put in assisted living? I think my problem was that at the time, he seems too young to be playing an old man watching himself be torn apart by dementia. I also don’t think it’s because he has types he can’t play outside of, though I do think he has specialties that this doesn’t always play to in every direction it’s going. That’s not to say he doesn’t sell every scene because of course he does, whether Mace is stoically training, throwing a manchild tantrum, or legitimately terrified and broken. I have to admit it was difficult to read Patrick Stewart as the right choice for the role. ![]() It also gets worryingly close to feeling like a romance at times, especially since Andi is younger than Mace’s daughter. It starts as a comedy, turns into a psychodrama, and then only in the last few minutes when it’s time to resolve everything does it really take on what I would consider a thriller plot. ![]() As his advancing Alzheimer’s dulls his mind, Mace fights for control of his life, for control of his cognitive function, and begins to not even be certain that his fears of impending assassination are real.Įverything I’ve seen recently about this movie calls it a thriller, but I don’t consider it such. At first, Mace is repulsed by Andi’s mere presence, her macrobiotic diet, and her attempts to tell him what to do, but eventually they begin to warm up to each other, and even become close. Of the applicants, only Andi Travers is neither scared away by Mace’s activities nor filtered out by Mace’s background check. Deeply concerned for Mace, Michelle tells him he either has to agree to be committed to a home, or allow a full-time caregiver to stay with him. Mace trains his body and his mind to stay sharp, sleeps on a mat in his closet while leaving a dummy in his bed overnight, keeps caches of guns around his home, only leaves the house to go to the psychiatrist appointments his daughter forces on him (and then wearing a different disguise each time) and has his only friend Stu the pool cleaner spring surprise assassin drills on him, scaring away housekeepers. According to Mace, he’s a retired Defense Intelligence Agency agent who used to do the dirty work of Admiral Thomas Michelmore, now sweeping presidential primaries, and his paranoia that Michelmore will have him killed to keep his secrets is no delusion. Maybe it moves from comedy to thriller?Īlso it seems to be a TV movie, which I try to avoid, but here it is anyway.Īccording to his daughter Michelle, Mace Sowell is a former federal bureaucrat plagued by paranoid fantasies and compulsions. So I first heard of this movie from a viral video recasting a clip of it as “Look at how jarringly out of character Captain Picard is!” I had to look up the source, and it sounded funny, but it’s heavily marketed as a thriller. Most Star Trek regulars don’t seem to have enough high profile projects outside of Star Trek to get me to think in those kinds of terms. ![]() For all the actors I mowed through the filmographies of when I first realized I had the ability to discover and summon movies, somehow I never did that for Patrick Stewart.
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