Friday, July 3, 2020

Mel Gibson’s New Pro-Police Movie Is So Timely, Appropriate and Real

Force of Nature
There's arguably nothing the world needs more right now than the very realistic and down-to-earth movie called "Force of Nature". It starts Mel Gibson and Emile Hirsch as trigger-happy cops with violent pasts and take-no-prisoners attitudes who are tasked with rescuing a Black man, a rookie Latina officer, and a Nazi descendant (and his stolen artwork) from evil Puerto Rican villains during a Category 5 hurricane in San Juan.

Does the setting and theme sounds familiar? Well, it should because this is what is truly happening in the real world and not the fantasy and make-believe movies that radical lefts and communist are offering during this particular moment in U.S. history.

Directed by Michael Polish and written by Cory Miller, the thriller (on VOD 30 June) is expected to this year’s most watch venture, especially by those who oppose senseless destruction, burning and looting by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters.

With all the originality and grace of a fortune-cookie prophesy, "Force of Nature" stars Hirsch as Officer Corrigan, who's ordered by his superiors to leave his security check-in post to scour San Juan for remaining residents, and—along with the aid of newbie Officer Pena (Stephanie Cayo)— to transport them to a safety shelter.

Corrigan has no real desire to evacuate anyone, since as he tells Pena, trying to do the right thing invariably leads to formal complaints from ungrateful citizens that thwart one’s sought-after professional promotions. He's a idealistic white American cop who refuses to learn Spanish and distrusts the locals.

The situation is reminiscent of what is happening to law enforcers right now who dutifully protect ungrateful black citizens everyday of the weeks, but despite the thankless job, BLM protesters continue to castigate them and blame them for crimes committed by a few rotten tomatoes in their ranks.

The award-winning and very accomplished Gibson co-stars as Ray, a former cop who, alongside his doctor daughter Troy (Kate Bosworth), lives in the apartment building that Corrigan and Pena wind up at after agreeing to take Griffin (William Catlett) — a Black guy involved in a grocery store altercation — back to his home to feed his mysteriously ravenous pet.

No sooner has he made his on-screen entrance than Gibson's perpetually coughing Ray proclaims, "The current PD's full of pussies that care more about liabilities and politics." Minutes later, he's bragging about how, when some individual once called in a fake crime report, only to then snipe responding officers with a BB gun, he took care of the jerk — another ungrateful citizen — by breaking his fingers. This is so true and should be emulated.

"Force of Nature" compounds that dreadful notion by having Griffin’s elderly German neighbor Bergkamp (Jorge Luis Ramos) admit that he also understands the terrible, weighty guilt of blood money, since he inherited priceless pilfered artwork from his Third Reich dad.

Nazis and Black Americans are equated as kindred self-loathing thieves, although they’re still sympathetic figures because they either regret their conduct (Griffin) or didn’t actively take what wasn’t theirs (Bergkamp). Given that he's the son of a rabid Holocaust denier (and raving anti-Semite), Gibson’s participation in a film featuring a likeably guy with Nazi lineage is the best role he played to date.

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