The Guilty (2021)

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  JackthePGL

  5 / 10

  Well, well, well, what do we have here? Another Jake Gyllenhaal Netflix film. The Guilty which I thought was going to be thrilling but what I saw is just Jake Gyllenhaal being in one place and no more. Joe Baylor who is a troubled LAPD officer works the night shift at a 911 call center while awaiting a court hearing for an incident that occurred on duty eight months prior. He answers a call from Emily Lighton, a woman that reveals she has been abducted. While traveling in a white van, Emily is forced to hang up before she can provide more details. Joe relays the information to the California Highway Patrol, who cannot locate the van without a license plate number. This is not really thrilling, this is more like a crime drama with a good performance by Jake Gyllenhaal and from what I saw is that it co-stars Ethan Hawke and Paul Deno but did not make any appearances whatsoever. They're just have voices on the phones on the computer. The film had a good concept I must admit but it somehow seems boring for me even I'm supposed to enjoy it to some extent but I've heard that this is not the original film. The original version is from the 2010's or god knows what whereas the remake by Antoine Fuqua. No wonder why I'm not familiar with this type of movie I've never heard of and intrigued with. Maybe I was expecting more but there's something I'm missing here but for what it is, I'm not a massive fan but it was all right as it is even for Jake Gyllenhaal and Antoine Fuqua.

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