The Tax Collector (2020)

2020 R 95 Minutes

David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up...

Overall Rating

6 / 10

Verdict: Good

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d_riptide

2 / 10

See.....it’s movies like “Tax Collector” that make me even contemplate whether or not David Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad is even worth the price of admission (depending on if it even is a real thing) because I’m starting to think that he got lucky with Fury that one time. But I know for a fact that he isn’t incompetent because he helped write Training Day and some ideas in Bright weren’t completely appalling upon closer inspection, so he has some level of talent. So what the hell did I watch?

No joke: this is every generic poor man’s action-thriller adventure flick you’ve gazed past a thousand times on Showtime but only more boring and incoherent, borrowing a lot of its plot numbers from any number of action-adventures and Westerns it can manage with hardly a surprise in sight. And because things feel so manufactured, contrived and stale all at once, the performers, who do seem to be trying, tend to be stifled. The plot is heavily inconsistent and is rushed from pillar to post within only a minutes notice and there is a severe lack of character development which doesn’t serve as a dealbreaker since there weren’t any CHARACTERS to begin with; just stereotypes. And yes, that means casual racist stereotypes are present in this as well. That reminds me, how could I forget about the nauseating camerawork, clichéd dialogue, baffling editing, over-reliance of exposition and just how bloody boring the entire affair is and outside the dedicated performances, vivid L.A. backdrop and ‘harmless’ premise, that’s not even going into EVERYTHING I hate about this.

The movie in its entirety is just too frustrating to ever truly be enjoyed. It’s boring, lazy, somewhat depressing, it’s horribly ill-conceived in its inconsistent plot structure and it continues to waste the talents of dedicated people who were trying their damnedest with diddly dick to show for it. Seriously, how they’d get George Lopez and then completely—I—nope. I’m done.

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