Gunpowder Milkshake

Please leave all logic and reality at the door as you settle in for a violent slice of Netflix original movie entertainment featuring an outstanding cast of first-rate actors clearly having a great time shooting up the joint.

The film’s intermittent delights are momentarily satisfying, but then numbness sets in, like the brain freeze that blooms after you slurp on the film’s titular ice-cream treat.

Men have been gorging on righteous, blood-splattering pulp action rides like this one for decades, and if women are now looking for the equivalent, Gunpowder Milkshake fits the bill. Its message is that there are a lot of Bills to kill.

Headey’s in her element. Gillan is capable. But Papushado’s excesses hold them back from performing at their best.

Tiresome stuff.

This is regurgitated shoot-’em-up nothingness fetishistically dressed in the cosplay of equality. The women are not characters to care about, but props to kill and be killed.

The film’s humorlessness is off-putting; it is slick to the point of lacking texture. But the underlying problem is more fundamental. Gunpowder Milkshake is led by someone without the star power to carry it, surrounded as she might be by actresses far more interesting.

Gunpowder Milkshake movie is stylish, beautiful, action-packed, violent, and funny. The action sequence was a mixture of John Wick and Jackie Chan. Director Navot Papushado and Cinematographer Michael Seresin transform a generic script into a blast. There was a smart use of a camera and lightning. The music, color grading, costumes, makeup, production design, and the whole atmosphere was brilliant. I loved the library scenario and the classic literature language used for the guns. It reminds me of the John Wick movie. The script was decent and predictable to some extent but the direction and Cinematography made it more interesting. Also, I can't forget the funny fighting moments. So It's a must-watch movie.

A decent action movie: Good actors in an interesting setting with colourful set pieces but with flat characters and subpar dialogue.

The story and characters are unfortunately very bare bone. It doesn't help that some of the action is incredibly goofy and has fights that rely on the men being idiots. However, the action is very stylistic, with some nice use of blood and gore. Plus the score composed by Frank Ilfman is very good and there is some great use of music within the film. The cast do a pretty good job as well. The movie is enjoyable if all you want to see is someone get stabbed or shot.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

A 99 cent version of John Wick. It's a classic case of style over substance - it's characters are flat, tries too hard to be cool, the dialogue is atrocious, the story is weak. You would bank on a movie like this to have great action but it doesn't; the fight scenes are poorly choreographed and lack intensity. Karen Gillan feels miscast - her stone-faced flat performance required an intensity that she didn't bring.