From Robert Scucci
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Whenever I hear someone: “You don’t make action films as before,” I immediately think of Sylvester Stallone’s Exaggerated; The only film that I can imagine that immerse yourself so violently into the world of competitive armrest. If you ask yourself how a premise of arm wrestling can be stretched out in a film area with a length, then buckles live out, one rest stop steak dinner after the other.
After counting how often I actually saw Exaggerated After my last inspection, I have to say that I am still very impressed how such a ridiculous concept can lead to such a satisfactory story about courage and fame while I emphasized the importance of the family in a way that Dominic would do second yourself.
A story about a father and his son
If you have never had the pleasure before ExaggeratedThey miss it because there is nothing better than a stone face Sylvester Stallone With his provisional and mobile weight, clatter and beat while he achieved serious kilometers to win the day and clarify his name.
Exaggerated Centers on Sylvester Stallone‘S Lincoln “Linc” with a checkered that led him to leave his pathological wife Christina (Susan Blakely) and his son Mike (David Mendenhall). Linc has a heart of gold, reunited nothing more than with his estranged son and at the request of Christina the opportunity to pick him up from the military school – an act that her father Jason Cutler (Robert Loggia) disapproved by because he never from Linc’s lifestyle agreed. Mike, a military brat from the highest order that has every reason to be careful before his father’s intentions, reluctantly agrees to climb into his truck and make the trip from Colorado to California to see his sick mother .
From the RIP, LINC and Mike Butt Heads, because Mike Grund has the assumption that his father is an intellectually weak, drug -handed road dogs who decided to leave his family when they needed him the most. But when father and son get to know each other, it becomes clear that Jason’s stories about Linc was mostly invented because Jason alone wants custody about Mike, Christina should succumb to her illness. Although Mike finally puts his guard over his old man, her reunion is not without complications, since Jason keeps trying to find ways to keep her separated for his own selfish reasons.
Exaggerated is exaggerated
Now that we got Exaggerated We can finally go into the real meat and the potatoes that this film has to offer: poor wrestling!
While Exaggerated Is a story in the heart about the unbreakable connection between a father and his son, there is also a World Armwrestling championship in Las Vegas, which the entire film builds up. Linc, who gets on the road to the road to spend time and earn some money, wants to give gold for the gold by entering the competition so that it could finally work for himself. Mike, who initially believes that his father is a cough, slowly begins to understand his motives because he does everything to build a stable life because he also tries to win custody for his son.
Between awkward competitions with silly antagonists such as “Smasher” at Truck Stop Diners, Lince teaches how to drive a truck, which is much more difficult than the boy who was initially suspected, and stood for himself when he is when he is when he is when he is when he is when he is bullied because, as Linc puts it, “nobody hits you halfway”.
Every source of conflict in Exaggerated During the World Armwrestling Championship -a Volvo truck worth 250,000 US dollars and a cash price of $ 100,000 will change LINC’s life forever if it wins. In the hope that his patented “exaggerated” method ExaggeratedLinc knows that he has to defy all adversities in order to stay in his son’s good grace, although Jason will not last to secure his failure.
Not a big thinker
Exaggerated Is one of these films that all cards put on the table so that they never have to guess themselves or its premise, which refreshes, since so many films like to rely on unusual things like “subtext” and “and”, and “WorldBuilding . “Sometimes they just want to turn off their brain and watch who they know from Exaggerated. And if you are one of these third nail ties when the competition becomes difficult, don’t worry, because the announcer during the arm wrestling championship in the world will constantly assure you that a single loss is not the end of the world because it is actually A double elimination challenge.
Is Exaggerated A total cheese festival? You bet. But there is nothing wrong with a sports action film with a thin premise as long as he has a lot of heart to give him a appearance of substance. At least we have the Manchester Orchestra’s music video for “Shake it out”, which is a pretty loyal recovery of the film in question and is a total banger at the same time.
At the time of this letter you can stream Exaggerated Free on Tubi.
