I still marvel that people sat through “Roma” after that four-minute black-and-white opening shot of soapy water swirling in a Mexico City driveway (and I suspect most people didn’t). Its movies have to grab you from the opening seconds, and anytime the energy dips, there’s a chance you could leave the room, or back out and pick something else to watch. There was a time when movies built at a reasonable speed, drawing audiences in gradually, like some kind of seduction (plus, some filmmakers realized, a fair portion of the audience might be running late and miss the beginning).
OUTSIDE THE WIRE MOVIE
They will watch because it stars Anthony Mackie as a android super-trooper, and because there’s not much else new to consume in the way of movies, but also because the movie has been front-loaded with this intense but almost nonsensical set-piece. So begins the latest Netflix action movie, which I wager will be seen by more eyeballs than took in “Tenet” on the big screen last year. In the next scene, he is court-martialed and sent to the demilitarized zone for a taste of combat.
Disobeying a direct order, he launches a drone strike, killing two and saving the other 38. Two men are hit, and their commanding officer makes plans to pull them to safety, while half a world away, in the middle of the Nevada desert, a hot shot named Harp (“Snowfall” star Damson Idris) eats gummy bears and takes control of the situation.
Tough guys in helmets crouch behind concrete barriers. Robot soldiers fight alongside human ones - or maybe against them. “ Outside the Wire” opens with a full-on action scene.
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