One of the stops on the road trip is in Portland, and the tired jokes about too-twee Portlandia-ness and Briggs’ efforts to adapt in order to get laid wear thin fast. We do not need to hear Kenny Rogers singing “The Gambler” again when it comes to that song, it is time to fold ‘em.
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But Tatum lets us see it, without consideration for movie star vanity.Ĭarolin and Tatum play it safe in some other choices, though, with too many sun flares and postcard-pretty shots of the beautiful western countryside and some on-the-nose song selections for the soundtrack.
Briggs tries his utmost to hide his struggle from everyone, including himself. Here we see his range, with more vulnerability than he has shown on screen before. We have seen him unhappy and under stress but almost always as a character who keeps those feelings hidden. In his previous films, Tatum has mostly relied on his natural all-American charm, a boy-we’d-like-to-have-next-door combination of confident strength and self-deprecating humor. Tatum the actor responds exceptionally well to Tatum the co-director (along with co-screenwriter Reid Carolin, both directing a feature for the first time). There will also be connections from the past, both in person and via an extensive, heartfelt, and very detailed notebook kept by Lulu’s Ranger handler. Of course, there will be mistakes and there will be trouble on the road from Oregon to Arizona by way of Los Angeles.
But if Briggs can deliver Lulu with no mistakes and no trouble, he can get the approval he needs. “You’re asking me to take a dog on a plane to Arizona?” The officer responds, “I’m asking you to drive a Ranger to a funeral.” The dog is too unstable to fly indeed, Briggs is warned not to let her near any person or animal. After the funeral, she is scheduled to be put down.īriggs, who has said he would do anything to get back into the service, does not want to do this. Until the funeral, she is muzzled and on Prozac. She has sent three people to the emergency room and been deemed un-salvageable. The dog is Lulu, a sweet-faced Belgian Malinois who performed many brave rescue operations, but who now is so severely traumatized from being in a war zone that no one can go near her. Finally, an officer says he will authorize Briggs’ reinstatement if he will perform one task, delivering an Army dog to the funeral of a veteran who served with Briggs. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Briggs needs sign-off from an officer to be readmitted to the Rangers, who call themselves “the Army's premier direct-action raid force.” He has been repeatedly turned down. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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