REVIEW #209 Samaritan (2022)

A young boy called Sam grows up idolising a fallen superhero known as Samaritan, hanging on to the belief that he is still alive out in the world somewhere. It’s when Sam is suddenly saved by a mysterious old man with abnormal strength, that he begins to believe he might have just met his hero.

Samaritan is a grittier take on the Superhero genre, with a similar style to that of Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. Unfortunately it is let down my a super predictable plot, I guessed the twist very early on and you knew how the film would end during the first act. Despite that, I still found the latest Amazon Prime original quite enjoyable, with Stallone and Javon Walton’s chemistry injecting a lot of heart into the centre of the plot. The action sequences aren’t huge spectacles and are kept small in scale but I found that definitely worked in its favour. That, combined with the surprisingly impressive cinematography, Julius Avery has created a darker instalment into an otherwise oversaturated genre, which is worth watching but it’s definitely not breaking new ground and I can imagine it being forgotten pretty quickly. 

Overall (6.5/10)

Thanks for reading.

Callan