Samaritan

[Available Aug. 26 on Amazon Prime Video.] When a ruthless, power-hungry bad guy (Pilou Asbæk) and his gang (Sophia Tatum, Moisés Arias, Jared Odrick, et al.) get hold of a powerful, mythical hammer in Julius Avery's gritty, entertaining, action-packed, fast-paced, violent, star-dotted (Martin Starr, Natacha Karam, Michael Aaron Milligan, and Deacon Randle), 99-minute film based on Mythos Comics and highlighted by terrific choreography, an adventurous, precocious, tenacious, free-spirited, 13-year-old boy (Javon ‘Wanna' Walton), who lives with his single hardworking nurse mother (Dascha Polanco), tries to convince his scarred, reclusive, ice-cream-loving superhero vigilante neighbor (Sylvester Stallone), who is working as a garbage collector, to come out of "retirement" to save crime-riddled Granite City.
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