PLEASE NOTE THAT DURING THE PRESS SCREENING AN UNFINISHED VERSION OF BAYWATCH WAS SHOWN, BASED ON THIS HERE IS THE REVIEW, BUT IT WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER ON.
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchanan butts heads with a brash new recruit.
Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future
of the Bay.
Baywatch (2017)
In this big-screen reboot of the popular '90s TV series, legendary California lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson) is frustrated when a cocky, hard-partying Olympic swimmer named Matt Brody (Zac Efron) joins his beach-patrol team. However, the two men must learn to work together when they stumble upon a criminal conspiracy. Normally the life at the Bay is lovely, peace and girls rule the beach and it could not be better, but someday drug dealer and criminals are coming and so the team of Mitch and Matt want and somehow have to fight against those criminals.
The movie is a drama in my eyes, it is much too long and it has a story which could not be flatter than a bread in the toaster, after it got burned. The jokes are R-rated standards, there are comments and duologue's about sex for more than 3 minutes and how to get a hard one and how to jerk, that it is simply nothing that I would like to show to my kids, not even if you are older already you want to focus on this topic only. But this is the general problem of the movie and later on we will realize there are many more problems which the movie has.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is Mitch, the leader of the Baywatch crew. He has a long screen time, in my eyes too long, because he is helpful for carrying the story on and push the speed a little. At his side is Matt Brody played by Zac Efron, and in general I am not a fan of him, and here he proves again my statements about him. The character of Matt is flat, he is somehow stupid in his action and the body of Zac Efron, sorry for that, cannot rescue the upcoming disaster of the movie during the storytelling as well as the results.
Some colleagues how are doing reviews as well said that they liked the chemistry between those two a lot. Yes for sure, they can bring on the action, especially Zac, no Dwayne, but some moments are so weird and funny in dramatic moments that I thought okay maybe that's the message of Baywatch and it is like it is. Howver the preparation of Matt, his body is awesome and like a man of steel, whether you like it or not, I will leave it to you.
But let's finish the cast first. Then we have Jon Bass as Ronnie Greenbaum, who is totally in love with a girl who is out of his league, and we may know where this situation will lead to, do you?
All the beautiful girls in the cast like Alexandra Daddario as Summer,
Priyanka Chopra as Victoria or
Kelly Rohrbach as CJ Parker are treated little fresh meat for one reason only. Those girls are reduced to her best sides, tits, asses, the pussy and guys who want to have sex with them most likely in a lesbians only or threesome action. It is tiring when you find out those things very quickly and the movie moves into that directions very quickly.
There are also other cast members I don't want to mention, but the only two surprises which are included in that movie are about the cast and this something good.
The camera focuses on the main parts of girls only, as mentioned above, but also on action. Here it turns up the speed and the effects combined with the camera are okay, nothing special and nothing new. Overall the characters in the movie don't wear a lot of clothes and this pretty obvious since the first second what the background of Baywatch is about.
The settings is the beach and combined with the music it makes a lot of to listen to the music and I liked it.
Please be aware of the fact that during the press screening the movie was not finished yet, so I cannot tell you more about the action effects since I simply don't know where the missing parts will be fitted in.
What else can I say? This is remake of a series from 90s, 22 million people watched that series and it is simply a peace of TV culture which is put on the big screen again. David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson and Jesse Jane (who is a super star and an incredible performer in the porn business now because of Baywatch and still super hipped after so many years) are still in my mind and I loved those 143 episode put into 11 series.
The movie starts with a massive action scene, cool spots, nice talks and the first 30 minutes are awesome with a big WOW from my side. The last 90 minutes are like OMG what a fail.
If you liked the trailer, go and have fun watching the movie. If you did not like the trailer, don't go, simple as that is the recommendation for you, and Baywatch is not an exception here. The movie is too long, forget about the fact it wants to be a serious movie, it is not. Baywatch is a trash movie and the seduction of the storytelling and what comes out is nothing else than expected especially when you look at the characters.
This means
6/10 for the action and drama genre
and
3/10 overall
and so Baywatch will be one of those movies I have seen in my life, but forgot about it already again even before finishing that review. And so thanks for reading and have fun watching Baywatch in cinemas from May 31 on.
