Bros & Shows - Bromance: Hit Man starring Glen Powell Full Recap (Romcom Recap)

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

What is up Bros?! We wanted to share one of our Bromance episodes with the masses so that you know what to expect should you join BravBros Members! In this episode we recap the hit movie, Hit Man, starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona. This movie was WILD. When you take a part time fake hit man/ full time college professor and combine it with a woman that wants her husband dead, what do you get? We'll tell ya, you get true love. There are a lot of very funny moments, arguably too much gratuitous sex scenes and lots and lots of murder talk. When a woman approaches you to kill her husband, is that a red flag? No. That's a classic meet-cute moment that leads to happily ever after. We got dirty cops, whacky friends, classic tropes and lots more. Also proudly introducing.... Bro bingo and... THE BROMATO METER! Our personal ranking system for Romcoms! So tune in and sit back as we get Bromantic with Hit Man! Time Stamps: Bromance Theme Song: 0 Bro-Bingo, Bromato Meter, Intro: 0-6:45 Hit Man: 6:45 Enjoy the Bromance episode? If you want to hear more, click this link to sign up for BravBros Members and enjoy all of our exclusive Romcom Recaps and more: https://thebros.memberful.com/join?splash=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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tell the people what we're recapping? We're going to be covering Hitman with Glenn Powell. Oh, yeah. A little sexy up in here. It's not a little sexy. This was borderline softcore porn. Yeah, this was not your typical Ro rom-com. I'm going to have a hard time figuring this out because usually we do Bravo. Usually we do other things, but we're doing rom-coms. This was not your typical rom-com. This one surprised me a lot. Well, this is a rated R rom-com.

Most rom-coms are PG-13. It's not rated R for rom-com. Tell you that much. No, it definitely isn't. I watched this in a park. Oh, I know. That'll get you up on a list. That's what I literally thought that, but I didn't expect it also.

be wanting to go to the park i was like you know what i can kill two birds the one so enough watch bravo at the park let me watch this at the park about 20 minutes and i'm like i should not be watching this at a park yeah um no nudity no there was no but honestly nudity would have been less explicit was it r for the violence or for the the cussing cussing for sure yeah i guess it's mostly just the cussing well what is it on pg13s you can get away with one one fuck you get one fuck and lots of shits yeah but in a rated r you get as many as you won obviously so that's probably why plus the murder plus the the gratuitous sex scenes were wild like this was a lot to take in especially sitting on a park bench at a playground not my

proudest moment i was doing one of these with my journal i had it like popped up my phone was like in the middle i was like if anybody walks by me right now i'm going to be the biggest creep in the world yeah So this is what we do for you guys. We want to give you the best content we can. I'll watch whatever I need to watch wherever I need to watch it. But yeah. Do you want me to make it feel a little bit better? I would love you to.

I watch this at work. That's comparable. Yeah. It's not going to get you on a list. No, no. And I'm able to at least slide my phone in different positions so that nobody knows what I'm doing. Yeah. But all in all, you know, we're not going to give our ratings for this movie.

We're going to save that for the end. We have to come up with a rating scale. a bros rating scale. So I do think that we go with Bromato's. That's incredible. Yeah. Thank you for not telling me until now. Yeah.

No, I didn't want to tell you off, off air, if you will. Bromato's scale, now we can do the typical out of 10. Obviously, we can go to one decimal point. I feel like that's fair. Yeah. Or we can do what another website does, you know, don't get us in trouble here. But we could do a percentage. Nah.

I think we do it on a scale one to 10. That's enough degrees of separation where we're okay. With decimal points. but we need to, here's the thing, because we're starting out with this one, and then obviously a fan favorite as well, one of our favorites with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. We need to be reasonable out of the gate. If we set the bar too high. Oh, yeah, I'm not going to, this is the thing.

I am not. We're fair reviewers here. Yeah. We're very stingy, honestly. For this movie, I will say, I'm not getting down on my knees for, because it's an or rate of movie. Glenn Powell. So I can be a little, you know, yeah, I can be a little graphic here. I'm not getting down on my knees and blowing this movie.

Okay. And saying, oh, yeah, it's a 10 out of 10. You got to watch it. Do you know what they call that in this movie? Signing a contract. Yeah, signing a contract. Yeah, seriously. They reference it like 30 times.

I'm going to need you to initial here. Do you want to know what the three, where the line, the signature lines are? You really paid that much attention. Oh, dude. I take, I. That is. That is. All right.

There's the three lines. So the first signatures on the lips. You initial on the nipple. And then you seal the deal with little. Kind of Lingy. Yep. That's how you sign contracts in this world. Well, at least it works both ways.

Look. The mutual agreement? It needs to be. Good job, Glenn. So that we're often running here. The screenwriter for this movie, so. I saw that at the end. And I was like, okay, that makes a lot more sense.

My favorite part, and then, like, let's just kind of jump into it. We're going to, this will lead into it directly. Yeah. I love in rom-coms, this is going to be a big part of what we do here with these movies, is pointing out the tropes, because tropes for me in rom-coms and comedies in general. Well, hold on. I've got something for that.

I told you I had a couple of things here. Exciting. For rom-com specifically, and obviously we don't have it right now because this is just, it's a little brainchild that we're going through here. I was thinking maybe a little bro bingo, a little bromance bingo.

Where we have things. Are here. Do we have our own board? That's the thing. Can we put it out? I'll throw something together for the next members one. We'll put a bingo card together, genuinely. Yes, and it will be the generalized tropes that

happen in rom-coms such as do they go to is there a mode of transportation at the ends that needs to be cut off so that you can get them back together it's a big one that's a huge one it's at an airport later we'll see a little taxi cab action things like that obviously that'll happen uh obviously you know lying about the circumstances by which you meet things like that you know so we'll put some stuff together here but i do think there could be a good bingo card in our future yeah there's lots of good tropes out there when it comes to rom-coms we'll point them out along the way, and we can look forward to a little bro bingo. I'm excited for that.

Nice. I like this. I like the way this is taking shape. Is this the nerd getting the haughty? Is that where you're going with here? Not, yeah. Yes, it is, but it's more so, because there's a two parter to the nerd getting the haughty. You have somebody that is objectively very attractive.

Playing a nerd. I.E. Glenn Powell. And so the intro, Glenn Powell, he's wearing a shitty outfit, and he's got this terrible haircut, and it's like, it's still Glenn Powell. Yeah, the shitty, like, framed glasses. They're not going to explain to you why he has a rock and bod either. No.

He's a professor. He's a professor at a school that loves to play with electronics and digital equipment, which also makes him the prime candidate to help out the New Orleans Police Department. Yep. Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? We need somebody. But here's the craziest part about this fucking movie and does not make itself known until

the end of the fucking movie. Because I'm watching this whole thing I'm like, this is ridiculous, that would never happen. This is based on a true story. Yeah, it is. Except the murder at the end, no spoilers. This is based on a true story. So here I am like,

what police department would hire some professor to be an undercover cop? Apparently, that's a real thing. Apparently that definitely is a real thing. And this one caught me off guard. So going into this movie, I thought it was going to be one of those. He is really an undercarver.

cover hitman. That's what I thought. And he wasn't. No. And also I thought the entire time that he was then subconsciously a hitman in a different life and somebody had brainwashed him and somewhere along the way it's going to trigger his memories and then he's going to go back to being. Oh, dude, I was fucking holding on to that for at least 45 to 50 minutes.

You thought it was a deep state movie? I thought it was a deep state movie. That's like a Jason born out of nowhere. Yeah, it was Jason born out of nowhere. I didn't go as far to say that he was some Russian hitman. He was a sleeper cell or anything like that. But I did think that at some point in time because he was talking about his past and he's like, you know, I just feel like it's very monotonous. And I do this.

And, you know, my ex-girlfriends have told me that I don't branch out. I don't have anything else going on for me, which is kind of a lie to begin with because you're a professor, but you're also helping at the police department. I feel like that's branching out. It's pretty interesting. Pretty fucking interesting. So you are pretty interesting. You help sell yourself short there, Glenn, Gary. Gary.

And they picked the whitest name. ever. Gary Johnson. That is, I think that's going to be part of the bingo card is the easiest names ever,

and we'll see this later with How to Lose a guy in 10 days. Andy Anderson and Benjamin Barry. Yeah, ABB. Yeah, it's sick. Like, you guys,

nobody's strained a muscle there. Don't have to. Gary Johnson, that wasn't his real name. I don't think it was, right? I think it was. I imagine that.

There's no way. Gary Johnson's a fake name. Yeah. If somebody introduced himself to me, starting to think this guy really was a hitman. Maybe he was.

and they're just hiding that part of it. And they confused us with a murder at the end that didn't actually happen because then we won't go digging, thinking, oh, yeah, maybe that didn't happen. Yeah, we're on to you. Yeah, Gary. What's going on? Gary. Gary Johnson.

All right, let's get into it. Well, we kind of already have because, as I said, we jump off in the beginning, and he's this unassuming teacher that lives in this unassuming home. He even says that, and he's eating dinner alone. He's got cats. Again, just because you throw this guy in some very, very, very, unattractive jorts. If you're going to put on jorts, everybody, make sure they're like five to seven inches. You can't have the baggy jorts down past the knees. He's rocking a pair

of jorts. You're trying to sell us on the fact that this guy's a total dweeb. No, he's not. This is Glenn Powell. We know it's Glenn Powell, but regardless, we get to meet the whole team. And he goes to meet all the guys in the van and get ready to set up a sting operation. But Jasper, who is normally the hitman, Jasper's on the outs because Jasper beat up a bunch of teenagers. Which is incredible. And Jasper does look like the type of guy that would beat up teenagers. Jasper does.

The funniest thing to me about this whole movie, whether you liked it or not, the performances in the movie, I was a fan of. I thought Glenn Powell did a solid job. Jasper I thought was actually really good. Like, I liked Jasper. I thought Jasper was the best out of everybody. Yeah, he was solid. He really sold me on his character.

It's a dirty cop. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, you would be that guy. None of that's surprising to me. Ride in your 1980s Bronco. Oh, everywhere. 100%. Don't knock the Bronco.

No, no, not at all. But, like, that's what a dirty cop would probably be driving. Definitely. That he repoed from a drug dealer. Yeah, 100%. But the first meeting, this is where we get to see Glenn at work, or Gary. We get to see Gary at work. Gary, G.

Gary, G. And he's meeting with Craig. And I just thought this whole scene is, it's so funny, especially in a rom-com setting, because he's never done this before. He goes into this and puts on an Oscar-worthy performance. Yep. To the point where you are questioning, maybe this guy does kill people.

And I even wrote in the beginning at his house, I'm like, kind of give serial killer vibes. I wouldn't have been surprised. I would have actually liked that a little bit of a question. That would have been a good movie. If you had a guy that was like, that's a drama. Yeah. Where the guy he works for the police.

Well, he gets close to the police so that they don't suspect him for things and he has this unsuspecting life. Maybe we should stop talking about it if we want to write a movie about this. Now people take our idea. True. If this movie pops up, we know it was one of you guys out there. But the funniest thing to me is the amount of money exchanged for a murder is not what I expected. Well, if you're to take Gary seriously that hitmen don't actually exist.

I don't believe that. Hitman definitely exists. Did you see the article that came out? There was that woman that worked at, um, it was a sports. company that shit who did she work for it's like the bucks maybe in like the front office or something and it came out this is true it came out like a week ago that she was a fucking hitman on the side sick yeah so they do exist so get out of here yeah you're not throwing us off the scent g johnson we're on to you but $2,500 for half so it's a five five geez well i guess

it's honestly that's part of the sting operation is they don't need anything there's probably not a threshold. It's probably just, hey, if you do this for me, I'll give you five bucks. And they're like, all right, you gave me money. Later, like the amount doesn't matter. You're just trying to pin something on them. But for validity's sake, I would think that you'd be like, I don't know. Yeah, you do want to at least put it somewhere that makes sense. 10? Yeah. Like, what's your life worth? If I was going to get you whacked, what do you think? I think it would be, what's it worth to you to have me whacked? A hundred bucks. Yeah. That'll be it.

all right but everything goes fantastic you get Gary pulls it off he gets the guy he pinches him all that good stuff but

the whole beginning of the movie and this is my one big issue with this movie and with rom-coms in general even how to lose

a guy in 10 days which is borderline flawless don't let me fill you off there rom-coms don't need to be more than 90 minutes no

and a half yeah this movie was two hours long yeah and this first segment of the movie we're going to lump it all in together it's just him learning the ropes of this whole thing it takes 30 minutes of the movie yeah no i agree with that you can you can definitely

accelerate when it comes to rom-coms definitely we don't need the continuity no it's okay if things don't come back now i did think that obviously i think the important parts of this first session if you will was the funny scenes just watching him play around with it and be a different characters a different characters that's great But between that and I guess the court scenes as well, where you have the drama between was this entrapment? Like, are they actually tricking these guys into doing it? Like, okay, yeah, I get all of that. And it kind of how it weighs on everything.

I don't think that we need that much content. Like, 10 different perps. Yeah. We need two. Or just faster? Faster. Yeah. If you just keep showing, like, him and the sting operation and bam, the mug shot.

Sting mug, but instead it was like drawn out. That was an issue for me Because I'm ready to get to the next thing After like the fourth one But I did think it was funny When he gets to the hotel He was 100% Patrick Baitman Yeah, that was Patrick Bainman

That was him too I was trying to figure them all out Like I couldn't figure out the Russian In all black I guess that was Leon the professional maybe He was thrown in there somewhere That wasn't Leon because Leon doesn't He's not Russian

No I know He's also got the shaved head I thought that that could have been a nut That honestly gave me Val Kilmer vibes for some reason he was in a movie called the he was a hitman in a movie yeah I don't because that's what I got from that but it could also have been there was a bunch of them in there that

obviously they were all paying homage to some I guess entertainment movie hitman thing entertainment movie entertainment movie yeah entertainment well I didn't want to just say movies because I feel like there's probably also like TV characters and like comic book characters entertainment in general just entertainment in general did say entertainment movies I think it was entertainment comma movies.

Oh, okay. How about that? How about that? We get back to him teaching, and it's funny to me in movies like this, because I do think this movie at times took itself a little too seriously. Yeah. And they were trying to hammer home some themes and motifs. I don't think that's overly necessary in a good rom-com.

I think you can just fire through all the tropes, and we know what we're getting into with these. Yeah. I want cheese. You feel like, well, hold on, let me get a little... crazy here. Okay. So you would say, Gary, throughout this entire movie, he's having a bit of an identity crisis.

Yes, and also... I think the movie was having an identity crisis, too? You could argue that there was multiple movies in one. Yeah. There was a serious movie, there was a comedy, and then there was a romantic film. Yeah. All in one.

And they had mismash throughout the whole thing. I think that by trying to be too deep with it, you're hammering home, because in his class, that's what he's talking about, is who are you? He's talking about id, ego, super ego. go, like, they're literally talking about what he's going through in real time. I get, yeah. Sure.

Yep. But we know that. Get that. We don't have to have these scenes. And then you get another really great trope that I love. As he's teaching his students in this scene, his ex-wife comes up. The ex-wife is always, like, hyper-intelligent, hyper-successful. It's like they still have this weird relationship.

You're not really sure why. He's talking to her. She's pregnant with another man's child. Still meeting, talking about, about it. That doesn't make sense. Yeah. It's like, well, the funniest line of this whole thing. He's like, you never wanted to murder me, though.

He was like, no. She's like, yeah, that takes serious passion. Are you upset that he didn't want to murder you at some point? This is a problem for you. Yeah. Isn't the problem about Gary and his lack of passion? Isn't that why you guys broke up? Right.

Did you want to be murdered? I think she a little part of her wanted to, not murder. But maybe a couple of just, like, fantasies in his head where he was like, maybe I'll murder her. Yeah. But he's not capable of that kind of passion, which is why we got divorced you, passionless sack of shit. Yep. Why didn't you want to kill me? I thought that was a really funny line.

But we get the return of Jasper, but we don't need you anymore, Jazz, because Gary's killing it. Gary Johnson took your job. He's doing better. It makes more sense. He can play more characters. That's really what it is. He has more costume. Yeah, you got typecasted, Jasper.

You did. You're the guy in the Bronco. Which, you know what, for a hitman on Craigslist or whatever it might be, at least the perps that we saw, the one guy asked a stripper. That was so funny. Which is so funny. And look, that's a knock on strippers. I know.

It's like, you're so low society that we're going to ask you for a hitman because that's what we think of you. Where do we go for a hitman? Strip. Yeah, I'm looking to take care of a problem. And this lady's like, oh. Okay. Let me call the cops immediately.

Yeah, good call, buddy, but he's still on, you know, the line for beating up teens, which I'm bummed out. We didn't get to see the video. If you're going to do that, you have to show, like, a fake TikTok of him beating up teenagers. And they can do a much better job. The thing that I think of right away again is the video with, no, it's not Tony Shalub, damn it. Who does, and I think you should leave when he makes the fake video to show his kids that I beat the shit out of the these teenagers, you better respect me. Like, they could have done something like that.

Yeah. Or what's to see? It's, um, Farva and Super Troopers at the end credits. Yeah. When he's in the bus beating up kids. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been funny. There's a lot of options here, but you can't tease it and not show it. We want to see it.

We got to see Jasper beating up teenagers. Instead of, you know, the seventh or eighth perp that we have to go through with the brilliant backstory. Yeah. Maybe give us a little video of Jasper beating up some kids. That's, that's funnier to me, but the next perp up. is Madison Figueroa. Maddie, as I went down, to make it a little easier for me.

And he's researching her, and there's sparks already. Look, he's looked at a lot of perps. He's creeping on her Instagram. There's sparks. She's hot. There's sparks. The other thing about his unassuming home, it is that of a hitman or a serial killer. Yeah.

Like, even they try to show him mixing bird seed as though he's mixing explosives, and he's got everything neat and tidy. He has all the makings of it. He's just not officially won. Yeah. Maybe they just went overboard with trying to make him that nerdy and neat and clean and, I guess, safe that they wanted to do it. And they ended up making him look serial killerish. Well, my big thing with Glenn Powell's character, like Gary Johnson, if at some point you have this massive realization where you look in the mirror as who were about to meet Ron and go, wow, I can look like this, why would you go back to being Gary Johnson?

Which again, I guess that's part of it. That's why he ended up being, especially the big reveal at the end. Did he continue to be Ron because he liked the feelings of Ron? Or did he become Ron because he liked Maddie? Yes. Okay. Both. Yeah.

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He gets to the Madison meeting and they're sitting down immediately. And I still have a question about this because what we find out about Ray later, her soon-to-be ex-husband, we don't really know what Ray did. I had so many more questions about Madison by the end than I did about Ray. We don't, and I'll save, I got to save some of them. Kind of the point, too. I guess, but like, these are protagonists. We're supposed to root for them to be solid people, especially knowing that Gary is a real human being.

Right. Right. So they're supposed to be good guys and women, right? I have questions. Yeah. Yeah, definitely have some questions. I mean, obviously, in this scene, you're led to believe that Ray is abusive. abusive and

refusing to divorce her and it puts her in a tough spot and you're supposed to feel some sympathy which in this scene you definitely do even though she's not giving a lot of details but I think that's also that's definitely dramatized like from the real life story

oh you think well duh but I think the fact that because if she had said something obviously she's on camera there's audio if she said anything that was incriminating then it's like okay we have her but for the sake of the movie it's let's make her very vague and then have to run well i get that part and i know like this

is the meat cute where they're supposed to have sparks so for the movie's sake sure but if you are meeting with a hitman to pay to have your husband murdered and you sit down and you share a piece of pie with him yeah you don't know this guy and then you're making cat puns all pie is good pie all pie is good pie is forever going to live in my brain that why that like it wasn't That could have a line to come back up later. It comes up so many times. But that, I guess, is like the initiation, the code word.

That's the pie. All pie is good pie. What? Actually, it was funny when the one dude that, I think his name was Walt, he's like the redneck early on, where he says that. And he's like, all pie is good pie. He realizes this is like a legit transaction. He's like, no, hell yeah, brother.

I'm so excited to buy a hitman. But back to this scene, these two are going back and forth. Like, this is not a murder for a higher situation. How can you be so calm, cool, and collected? And then, again, she's painting Ray as, like, in my head, I'm thinking of the bad guy from, like, bad boys, too, that Eva Mendez is with. Yeah. That's the situation in my head.

Right. When we find things out later, I'm not sure what, like, how, I'm not saying it was a good situation. I'm saying he was a good guy. But murder worthy? Murder worthy? Yeah. I look, what? Here's the thing.

is that Gary's falling for the girl in front of him who wants to murder her husband. Correct. That's the problem. It's both, isn't it? She's falling for a hitman. Yeah, exactly. She's falling for,

but she also wants to murder her husband. So that makes sense to me that she's falling for the hitman. Okay. Gary falling for her when she's trying to murder her husband. That's a problem. That makes more sense. Okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah.

Maybe I'll get her to fall for me and then she won't. want to kill me oh wait that part okay i get it like yeah this could be you yeah seriously this could be you down the line i didn't think of that meeting with jasper in five years okay well the funny part to me at the end of this transaction he you know obviously wants to save her get her out of this situation he says take whatever's in here and start over this from history history's sake histories from what we've seen thus far this is probably $2,500 yeah You want her to go start her life over with $2,500 in a Manila envelope. Well, he caters the amount to whoever he's seeing, apparently.

I'm talking just based on size of envelope. Because it was very comparable to the first envelope that we saw. Now, let's say it's hundreds. Let's say it's $5,000 for a total of $10. Yep. Because it's half up front and half later. Maybe it's not. Regardless, that stack of Manila envelope money is certainly not enough to start a new life.

Nope. But she does. She goes, she goes, oh, like leaves, saved by a phone call. She bounces. And then you get the trolley car after and, like, the cops were listening in and Jasper steps in. He's like, oh, she was super cute. And he leaves his phone on. And this part was really funny because you get Claude and I'm not sure what the female partner's name was.

Well, it was Reda. Reda? I don't remember. Redda is the actress, yeah. So it was Redda and Claude was the- Let's call her Donna because she, it's parks and wrecks. So we're going with Donna. Fine.

Donna and Claude are sitting there talking about this Ron character. And look, I think that they're speaking for everybody. We all want to bang Ron, right? He's very bangable. You look at this guy, like, this guy's cool, which begs my question earlier, if you're capable of being this man, do it. Why would you ever go back to Gary? Or at least wear Ron's clothes when you're Gary.

That's my whole thing. But the point. The conversation between the two of them was hysterical, and I just wrote down like, yo, Ron fucks, because Gary's hung like a straw. Ron? Rana's like, or Donna says to Claude, she's like, it sounds like you want to bang Ron. He's like, I'll take your sloppy seconds.

Like, this was a very funny scene. I liked the two of them together, yeah. I did as well. And then that's when we get the trial for Craig scene. And it's funny that they're going after, you just caught a murderer. And the only defense here is let's go after the guy that tricked him into admitting that he wanted to kill him.

Now, at this moment, I thought that Craig was going to completely get off. And then Craig was going to be the one to point at Ron. Okay. And say, I know that guy. He's fake. All right. Instead, they did that with Jasper. We knew it was going to be somebody.

Yeah, but I thought it was going to be Craig. And I thought it was going to be a much bigger thing. I think that would have played a little bit. Obviously, you throw Jasper in there. It still works out, fine. But I liked it better if it was Craig because Craig could come out and say, oh, you know this guy. And then the whole thing unravels.

And then you have conflict where. He's working for the police, but he doesn't want the police to find out. And then you've got Maddie, who clearly wanted to kill her husband, but now she feels betrayed by him. Is she going to turn her in? Then you have a mutual conflict going back and forth, which is big for rom-coms. We are looking for the conflict. Yes.

Yes, we were looking for it. It has to be some sort of downfall. Absolutely. So you're always looking for that moment. It usually comes after a very happy moment. And then you get the downfall of everything. So, yes, I was trying to figure out who that person was going to be. They set it up as though it's going to be Craig.

Yes. I will give you that because. It would have worked, too, because Craig would have had to restart his life, and then he's working at this, let's call it Sonic, because it looked like a Sonic thing. I love Sonic. Yeah, and it looked kind of like a Sonic. Maybe he comes out in some rollerblades, make it a little funny. That would be, and there's those two sitting on a Sonic.

I like that. That's, oh, the frost up. The fraud, I wrote it down later. I'll get it. It's frosted, frosted something, frosted cup? Sure. I don't know. There's the custard place.

They're getting custard. Getting custard. After they banged for the umpteenth time. Yeah. Anywho. Sign that contract. He's, oh, God. Lips, nips, and that's how he started a contract.

But you get back at the, back at the unassuming home of Gary, and he's sitting with his cat. And who texts him? Madison, because why wouldn't you text the hitman that she had a little something with? He has a soft spot for animals? He's got a soft spot for animals. She's throwing an animal fundraiser. I'm confused what her affiliation was.

I believe she was working for, no, I think she was volunteering for a shelter. Okay. And they were trying to get those dogs and cats adopted. Okay, I got it. So he willingly obviously goes to this dog outing. Dressed as Ron. Dressed as Ron. And that's my thing.

If you can walk up, the best part, honestly, take the clothes out of it, take the attitude out of it, the hair. Why would you do a mat-down comb over when you can just push it up like you do when you're wrong? Because he shows up there. I'm like, that hair's fantastic. The same exact length of hair pushed down to the side makes you look like Jeffrey Dahmer. Sure does. Just because you're doing it.

I have opinions on that, and I don't want to spoil it right now. Okay. Because it kind of answers everything at the end for me. Oh, interesting. Interesting. I would imagine it has something to do with the identity crisis. You would think. So, okay, I get that part.

Did you take Ron's class? I mean, sorry, Gary's class? I know all about it? I feel like I've taken Gary's class after watching this movie. You know what's weird? I liked the idea. I don't know why I thought about this. But I liked that the classroom was an actual classroom and it was college and it wasn't

some great big lecture hall to really hammer home. Hey, we're in college here. You know that? Like, it happens to movies all the time where it's like, oh, we're definitely at college because this is a huge lecture hall. This is a Harvard lecture hall. You know how many classes I went to that were in a classroom, not a lecture hall? Most of them.

Big, big, huge colleges, but this is not a big huge college. Right. No, this is a lot of those, like, it's not like every movie at a college. takes place at the Ohio State University. No, I understand that. I agree with you 100%. You're correct. And it's usually some, like, very, very elegant, hand-carved wood.

There's, like, pews instead of chairs. And it's some massive lecture. So, yeah. I just appreciate it. I did, too. I'll give them that. I'll give him that. But he goes to the dog outing, and he's holding the puppy.

And she's like, oh, my God, the dog loves you so much. She's like, I gargle barbecue. sauce before these things. It keeps the bitch's bitching. Easy, Ron. Yeah, Ron's going a little overboard here. We know you're excited to be Ron. We get it.

I'd be excited to be Ron. That's gross. I mean, honestly, it's the best alibi for him, too, because he can, he's a hitman. So she's never going to come to your house. That he gargles barbecue sauce? No, I'm just talking about how he just keeps leaning into the Ron thing. Oh, totally. No, no, I get that part.

Like, you lean into a hitman probably gargles his fair share of barbecue sauce. Keeps the bitch is bitching. It does keep the bitch's bitching. So maybe he was right in saying that. Maybe he did that. He probably did that. Do you think Glenn Powell gargled barbecue sauce before this scene? Yes.

I would love to know that he's that committed. That would actually be really funny if that is what happened. Yes, it would. Because then that would be completely off script and it's just improvised on the moment. But that is how they got the dogs to get close to him like that. Oh, maybe that's a thing they do in all movies. Like you have to gobble some kind of food product. Yeah, everybody else is like, oh, no, that's funny.

Like, what a weird line, but I guess it's supposed to be funny. No, that's actually what happens. Everybody in the entertainment business is like, we know that move. Oh, the barbecue sauce, yeah. You got an animal scene? Here's the barbecue sauce. In there, brother. You get a showrunner running up here.

Hold on. Gotta make sure you don't get the vinegar barbecue sauce. That hurts. Yeah, no, the dogs don't like that one. Everybody knows that. But she is talking about her ex because Ron is like, love your hair. She's like, oh, you do? my ex hated it.

It's just hair. It looked like hair to me. That's just hair. Not only does he hate hair. He hates dogs and mini skirts. This guy's a monster. But there's a code brown in the husky cage. So we got to go deal with that.

And this is great. And this is another rom-com trope. Don't worry. I'm good. Go deep, kid. Perfect spiral. Yeah. You're supposed to be a nerd.

And he's throwing up. That's what I thought. I thought he was going to blow his cover by throwing a duck. No. He throws a perfect spiral to the kid. Hits the kid on the numbers. No issue whatsoever. Do you think Gary could have thrown the ball like that?

No, maybe he's, maybe that's how deep he is into his character. Are we uncovering, like, a much deeper film as we got through this? To the point where I just called it a film. Yeah, this is getting bad. This is a rom-com. The bromance episodes are going to turn into this. It's so funny, but they go to the bar after, and, The vibes are vibing, the bitches are bitching, all right?

And he has his whole backstory, so he's telling her, this is how I do it, this is how I live my life. I'm very, very secret about everything. But what he really does in that moment was be actually honest and say, I don't have deep conversations. I don't really do this, do that. He just explained his actual life because his life is boring as shit. And this is like that nod to, here's your chance to be somebody else. and I have never in my life seen fuck me eyes like I saw from the two of these people in this moment.

They are staring holes through each other's head. I'm still thinking about the barbecue sauce. Do you think that she liked it? Maybe she could smell it on his breath? Oh my God. You know what would have been hysterical if they were eating barbecue? Yeah.

And then she was like right up on his face like the dog was. Yeah. Because it keeps the bitch's bitching. That would have been confirmation. Fantastic. Barbecue sauce works. Nist opportunity. AdphrodisiX are oysters.

I'm thinking about them signing the contract with barbecue sauce. Yeah, no. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't like that at all.

But they get home to her house, which, by the way, when she purchased this place for an undisclosed amount of money within the vanilla envelope. Vanilla. The vanilla envelope. This is a great little house. She said it was a mess. Yep. She said, I got my own place. I'm divorced my husband.

It's a mess, but no, it's not. It's a nice, quaint little home. A little house. I like it a lot. Didn't need to go down and around the counter. Nope. But I guess that's just how... Ron does?

Ron doesn't think, as he tells us, Gary thinks. Okay? Yep. Gary thinks Ron fucks. That's true. But this is the only time really in the movie. I mean, obviously you can tell that he's got a rock and bod. Yeah.

But he gets out of the shower and you're like, Like, okay, there needs to be an explanation for why he has a 12-pack. Yeah. You can't have a man look like that. He has some sort of rare disease that makes his hair look like shit, but the rest of his body looks great. Yeah, you can't. Like, this is one thing where I'm like, there needs to be, is he, say he likes to climb cliffs. Like, he's a rock climber in his free time.

That would make more sense. He cannot be fiddling with electronics. Just go with what I was going to say and say he's a sleeper cell. Like, a good hit man like that probably does have. I know, but, like, there's got to be an explanation there. There should have been. And I don't know why. For a movie that starts off and tries to cover every little step in his progress to becoming Ron,

there's a lot of continuity issues with the fact that he is a bod like that. I agree. Yeah. I just need answers to Ron's bod. And does Gary have the same bod? Is he shifting shapes? Maybe. This is deep.

Deep. Wow, guys, we're peeling back the layers here. But this is where we figure out how to sign. contracts, the official way. They walk us through the process. Again, it's lips, nips. That's how you sign a contract officially. But he's back to teaching again, and this is where you get too deep.

Because now he's talking literally about id ego and super ego, and it's flashing back and forth between him in the classroom and gratuitous sex scenes. This is literally the first scene, because I watched up until this point at home. This is where I was in the movie when I got to the park. Good. No. Oh, bad. Bad.

Bad. No, not good. I turned my brightness all the way down. We got through it. It's no big deal. But they're doing all these crazy things like pouring wine on each other and drinking it off of each other, which doesn't seem practical to me. Maybe I'm boring. I don't know.

But that just seems like sticky and unnecessary. But anywho, we get to a bath scene at the end of all the gratuitous sex. And they're talking more about the hitman life. And you can tell that he's almost tricked himself into believing that he is, in fact, a hitman. because he's talking with such confidence and what's the word? Ravato? Sure. That's a good way to put it.

Yeah. And she's asking, how do you do it? And he's like, man, well, everyone thinks you're shooting ahead of the neck. There's nowhere for the blood to go. You've got this beautiful thoracic cavity. Like, he's talking dirty via murder. Murder. And she loves it.

Yeah. She's into it. Yep. Which, once again, talking to Gary here. What are you doing? Not a little, oh, aren't he doing? Like, you're not a little, like, oh, man, this is your. Making murder sexy to her.

And she's into it. Yeah. Which then, you know, leads her down a different path. But yeah. I got questions if I'm Gary. Yeah. But maybe that's what we're supposed to start to realize is he's literally playing two different people. Yeah, he's living in a fantasy world.

And I don't think that the ramifications of the things that he's doing, anything like that is registering for him. So he's just like, yeah, this is great. Now, you know what? That's exactly what this next scene's about. Yeah. I'm putting it together. This was a movie trying. to be deeper than it needed to be, because you get the British murderer who I loved.

I loved the British murderer that he plays. That guy was sick, and I was trying to figure out, I don't know if that was clockwork orangey a little bit. Yeah. But I loved that scene, and then you get to the court, and as he's getting questioned, the lawyer's grilling him, Ron steps in, and Ron handles his business. I don't know in a real world scenario that it would have gone that smoothly. No, definitely not.

He backed the lawyer down instantaneously. Yeah. He puts Ron's foot down. But that's exactly what they're doing. They're saying it's actually he's starting to become this guy. And it's not that he's literally being Ron. This is the man that he's always wanted to be. This is who he wants to embody.

Gary Johnson's a loser. Yeah. And I guess it kind of makes sense that he would pull out his best alter ego for the girl that he stalked on Instagram and wanted to be with. Sure. That's my other issue with this whole thing. They're having sex under false pretenses. Yeah.

That's illegal. extremely so as posing as a hit man but yeah I mean there's a lot of issues don't get me wrong there's a lot of problems but like that was a big one for me

where it's like you yeah that's kind of wrong yeah definitely maybe say something I don't know I don't know

that was my other part with this whole thing is at a certain point once you are no longer going through with the murder she doesn't know that Gary and Ron act differently

he could have simply said out of the gate, hey, I think we got something here, just to let you know, I'm an undercover cop or was being an undercover school teacher that moonlight's as a cop. I'm not sure what his title is within the police department. However, at any point, you could have come clean and continue to act like Ron while being Gary. That was my big issue with the movie, is you didn't have to let this whole thing go on as long. You could have let her know early, and you probably have to say, by the way, I'm a

boring school teacher and this is who I actually haven't put your glasses back on or anything like that. That's what I mean. You can still be wrong. You are wrong. But you can be go by Gary. Just tell her. You avoid all of these shenanigans. But I think that maybe that was part of the fun for both of them. Yeah. He wants to. Yeah, definitely

was. Yeah. But anyway, she gets something they can play with and she pulls out a gun and you can see Ron start to slip. Gary comes out a little bit in that moment. He saves himself because he goes to the gun range and as we saw earlier they made sure they showed the scene of him at the gun range and he's a good shot so he could show her like check this out this is a tourist range this is where I shoot from and no looks right through the heart

boom Ron Ron does it but Gary is Gary did that but Ron you feel me do you guys get it out there you picking up what we're putting down are you buying into this whole thing because I have a deeper question for you If the moon controls the tide and we are made of water, how does the full moon not affect us? I don't know what to say to that. The only honest thing that I can come up with is from the Nickelodeon Avatar series where Katara becomes a bloodbender.

Wow. Yeah. Okay. So it does. So you find a way to tie anime into it. That's impressive. Yep. I loved Gary's response because it,

He's like, it doesn't physically change. It's just a shadow, which that is really all it is. It's the Earth's shadow on the moon. Well, it depends on who you tell. Well, you know. Imagine that's what astrology is. Yeah, flat earthers now. Whoa.

You'd see a square on the moon. No one talks about that. Nope. What? Square? Just because it's flat doesn't mean it's square. It can be a spherical. Oh, I suppose.

It should be a circle. But then you would never see one if it's going to cast a perfect spherical. shadow on the moon, then one side of the earth would never face the other. That's why it crescents because we're a circle. Flat earth. We are not flat earthers. Let me just reiterate that. But anyway, they're at the club and things are getting hot and heavy at the club.

They leave the club and we get introduced to Ray. There's Ray. There's Ray. And is Ray great? No, Ray sucks. We don't like Ray at all. Does he deserve to die? That's my point.

Right on. And that begged the question later for me. And I guess he does only because he decided to then go to a hitman. As we find out shortly after the scene, he tries to hire Ron, Gary, Gary, Ron to do the same thing. So I guess you could argue that, yeah, he deserves to be off because he's going to off her. But this is when I started to question things. Like the interaction obviously sucked. He's aggressive.

Like he comes on too strong. But then I started to question the whole marriage. And be like, well, was it a bad marriage? Or was Ray shitty? Was it just two shitty people that got married? Or it was Ray a good dude. And then because of Madison's shit. I think he was just always, he was always an asshole.

But this is where my head was going. I'm just explaining my thought process of like where everything lined up. Because I, we don't really know anything. We didn't. This is why rom-coms aren't supposed to make you think that deep. Agreed. But here we are. And that was my whole point.

Like, I need to know more. about the background as to, and do we Ron should? If you want it to be like a deep movie, yeah. But I think that's what I'm saying. It's an identity crisis. We don't need to know that deep

for a rom-com. Okay. But if you... But we do need to know a little bit of backstory for a film. Correct. But I'm saying the way they set it up, like Gary, don't you want to know more?

I don't think so. No. Ron doesn't. Ron's cool. Yeah, Ron's fine. That sounds cool. Gary's in the shadow of the flat earth. Gary, this is like a Jekyll and Hyde scenario. Yeah,

it is. Honestly. But the final reveal I'm going to give you, I'm saving it for the end of what this whole movie actually was. I think you'll enjoy it. I wrote it down at the, like, that's the last thing I wrote down. But anyway,

they're grabbing some ice cream after the shenanigans with Ray. I thought it was crazy that as he pulls the gun on, she's like, he's a professional. I'm like, you kind of blew his cover. Yep. First chance you had to blow. his cover. You blew his cover. Not surprised. This is the first night you guys have gone out together. You're supposed to be cool

man. Yeah. That wasn't cool. He's a professional Ray. Ray finds out later, but hey, man. Be cool. They get ice cream, and Gary asks about the relationship with Ray. This is more Gary. Now Gary's starting to ask questions. Ron doesn't ask question. Gary wants to know a little bit more. He's like, you guys are divorced, right? And like, how did we end up at this club where Ray was? And she's like, all right, I broke the contract, blah, blah, blah. It's like,

whoa not cool man because you're putting him in a weird spot this was the whole you signed a contract let me remind you that was binding happy to re-sign oh she reiterates 15 times and they use the same thing 15 more times throughout the movie i it got irritating honestly like we get it like no the contract i'd sign it again we get it you guys want to bone well i was going to say bonk Bunk. Bunk. Bunk. Plus bone. Okay. Bunk. I don't like that work. Tim's new scrambled egg loaded croissant. Or is it croissant? No matter how you say it. Start your day with freshly cracked scrambled eggs loaded on a buttery, flaky croissant.

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And when he leaves the table, she goes, Hmm, ex-husband, co-worker, were even, right? No, because he had to pull a gun out on your guy. This guy left willingly. It was not even. That's not the same scenario by any means. Lo and behold, the next day, Ray is the next perp up, and obviously we can't have Ray recognizing him.

So they sit back to back at the diner, and at the end, to avoid any shenanigans, smart move, he gets up and gets in his face and goes, well, where are you going, man? Where are you going, man? and the guy, Ray leaves. But that's when Jasper finds out. Jasper's now on his tail. He's a little fishy about this whole thing.

But I knew, and this is where the conflict was really beginning to arise, and I knew that this was how he's going to play it, like, as the dirty cop. Because he wasn't been out of shape. He's like, it's cool, man. I bang a lot of suspects. Not surprising. Not at all. What do you think the Broncos is for?

He's got Shag carpet. The buck and Bronco? The buck. That's what he calls it. Yeah, 100%, but... But I feel like this is when Gary comes back into play, because Gary is immediately concerned for Maddie. Yes.

I just found out that your husband wants to kill you. This is not Ron coming in, because if it was Ron, Ron would try to figure it out on his own, maybe take care of it, take care of his baby girl, take care of his little contract holder over there. Yeah. Yeah? I don't like that.

His executor of his will? The executor of will. He wants to make sure she's taking care of. He would handle it on his own. He'd try to... I thought that maybe Ron would... would continue and he would try to frame Ray for doing this or doing that or whatever. And it ends up with, no, I've got major concern for her and I can't do anything about it.

So here comes Gary. Gary wants you to go pack a bag and get the hell out of here. We got to get out of Dodge. You still got any more of that $2,500 left? Because you've got to go somewhere. And I think maybe Paris, because I don't understand how money works. Yeah, where's the vanilla envelope? We've got to get the hell out of here.

And the next day, Ray's dead. Yep. Ray has. Now, did you have the same thought that I did? that full-on split personality happened and Ron killed him. I thought that, honestly, after, when was it? When it says 38 is when I stopped thinking that. Initially, I was like, oh, shit, I was like, did he do it?

Yeah. When they said the 38 to the heart or the aorta, which again, like, you got a hammer at home, yeah. You got a, he could have just said it 38 to the heart. Yeah. Aorta because they're cops like that. I think it was honestly, and this is just us watching these types of things. I always try to, especially with rom-coms,

and it's very easy to usually figure out. I thought that's what it was going to be. And I think that it was very plain to see that it was Maddie. Oh, yeah. But I'm like, oh, maybe Ron is full on, and he doesn't even realize, Gary doesn't even realize what Ron's doing anymore. That's a great movie.

There's a phenomenal movie in here. I didn't, we'll get to the ratings later, but that's a fantastic movie. If he all of a sudden goes full schizo and ends up becoming two actual pieces, He's Jekyll and Hyde, but he's running Gary. It would have been great, yeah. But Jasper knows what's up, and he starts questioning about Ray.

Gary plays it cool. Ron steps in. You can tell that's Ron in that room. Ron's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I saw you there, too. Remember you walked up to us and you were getting some ice cream, too? Throws it right back in his face. I'm like, ooh, good play, Ron. Ron heads over to Madison's.

Ron's asking Madison some questions. Hey, you know, Ray's dead. He's like, yeah, she puts on this fake show of tears. He's like, I'm just trying to process everything, and there was a... Like using his phone to coerce her into saying what she needs to be saying. Oh, no, that's later. What? This is the initial response.

This is when Ron goes over there before Jasper gets involved. Jasper has just now told Gary that he's got questions about him. The phone... Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is when he's asking about Madison, like, did you hear about Ray? And the minute that she says, yeah, a drug deal gone wrong, I'm like,

how would she know that? Yeah. Like, is that news to her? Do they call her? I don't really know. And that's when Gary finally comes clean and he's like, I'm not this guy. Her reaction was fairly tame for finding out that this person, but at the same time, she gets really up in arms at Gary.

You just murdered somebody. Yeah. You killed somebody. You're pretty even killed for that. extraordinarily, which begs the question once again, Gary, you sure? Well, I think that the biggest issue for Gary in this moment was more so figuring out that they were still married because the cops did call her to say, hey, your husband's dead. Oh, that's a good point.

And Gary's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, these guys were still married? What the hell? He doesn't care about them. Part of an affair? I think that's honestly, like what you're seeing as the movie progresses is this character, Ron, and because it starts to take over so much for Gary, I don't think he cares about murder anymore.

He's, like, tricked his own self into being like, ah, maybe, yeah. I'm cool with murder. Like, murder's part of my M.O. And they really hammer that home in about five minutes. But Madison's the number one suspect when they get back to the station because we find out about a million dollar life insurance policy. Gotta be one of those in there.

Dude, this is, again, questions, man. Questions. You get to this sting with Madison. This is where he uses the phone, which I actually like this scene where, like, they're going back and forth and he's showing her like, they know what's going on. Yeah, it was fun.

They both enter this role of what that house, I guess, represented when they're in there, as they play like this, oh, we don't ask questions, this sexy relationship we have, or we don't really know each other, but we're falling in love with each other. I think we're falling in love with each other.

It was really odd because the last time that the two of them were together, she said, I never want to see you again, throw him out of the house. He was now Gary. And then the next time that they see each other, they're having a great time. Well, she saw Ron again.

Yeah, Ron's back and they're winking at each other in the middle of all this and smiling and carrying on. You're talking about murder. Talking about murder. And also you just found out that this guy isn't real. And he works with the cops. I don't care which one of these people you are. But also, he was trying to get,

he was invoking some sort of not confession, but like he was there under the guise of, I only met her the one time. And then she called me again, or I saw her again at the Custard Hut and we went through and talked about her new life. Yeah.

So who is he to be having this conversation with her again so emotionally that everybody else is like, well, didn't get anything from that. I wrote down here in the van afterward where it's like, that's it? These are shitty cops. I literally wrote down shitty fucking cops. She's still the number one suspect

just because she is now on audio saying that she didn't do it and she was crying. To a man that does not have badge. This is not a police officer. What about some phone records that would tie Gary to her immediately? What about literally anything else? Do some actual detective work, not send in Gary Johnson and take him at his word.

Yeah. It's just bad police work, bad shoddy police work all around. Who was the one who recommended doing all of this? The guy who beat up teenagers? And the captain was like, hell yeah, that's a great call. Great idea, man. You're really working your way back. Yeah, look, I know we've been trying to.

put you that's another trope by the way when there's cops involved in movies like this when you have a cop that messes up we're putting you on traffic control duty we got to keep you out of the headlines okay it's always it's always traffic control but the big finale is jasper gary and madison in madison's house because jasper because of course gary comes back to debrief about the whole thing or maybe get back together who knows doesn't matter you don't find out because Jasper's there and Jasper knew he was in on this whole thing and he had two outs

and I knew that he was going to use the life insurance policy like look if you guys get pinched I get my job back if not big payday the whole thing shakes out and she poisons his beer with drugs I guess I wrote down is he poisoned and I was like oh he's drug okay he's drug

here's the thing if I'm in this scenario because she earlier made it seem like she did not know or remember the life insurance policy because when he shows her the note where it says they know about the life insurance and she's like oh shit it did actually seem like she was like oh i forgot about that if you're not i didn't get that vibe regardless but that was my other big question i don't think she's innocent here and that's where i'm like with the life insurance policy and we find out about that why are we not asking questions about the life insurance policy like

clearly gary yeah she was killing her husband for the money right why are you not worried about that. Why is this all cool? Because up until right now, you were not a murder. You are a school teacher that moonlights as a police officer for some bizarre reason. You're not a bad guy. But Ron. Ron treads the line. Ron, he's back and forth. And after he's drugged, Ron grabs like a windixie bag. Just ties a little shop bag around his head. You don't have to do this. Just pay him. Yeah. That was my whole thing. I mean, get the life insurance. Give him like, 200K. Well, if you give him the money, he's just going to keep coming back for more. Oh, he's not?

No, he's not. He might. But that's if I'm in that scenario, what are my options here? Big sum of money that I'm getting, because I murdered my husband. Yeah. Kill a cop. Like, seriously.

Money? It's like... Murder. It could have easily been a Bonnie and Clyde, like, you kill for me, I kill for you. I think that was part of it. But Ron killed Jasper and

Maddie killed her husband who was not going to do anything to Ron. It's not like Ron was really ever threatened except for when Jasper was there. They each killed somebody that well actually no. Because Ray wasn't really threatening her. Like yeah, he went out for a hitman. He was going to kill her.

I mean, yeah. He did try to hire a hitman. I guess. Yeah, but they, it's still self-serving. It's not a kill for me, a kill for you. I agreed. Well, no, because he was going to kill. He Wanted Ron to kill both of them. I think it was just a swing and a miss on this. Probably.

Probably. But what this was to me once again, because this movie got a little too deep, this is Gary disappearing. Yeah. This is him stepping into being Ron full time. He's like, what are you doing? He's like committing. He is now Ron. Yeah.

Gary's gone. This is him taking Ron in full shape. He ties the bag around his head. We get a very strange bonding moment. moment where it's like, we're in this together till death do us part. I wrote down, are they married? Are they married now? They got married.

That's how you get married. Well, we got to sign the contract. So lips, nips, and... Yep. There's a man dying. He's... He's going down on her. There's a man literally taking his last breath.

He has his death rattle as Glenn Powell's head goes beneath the counter. And I know they're going for like the dark comedy thing. That was just weird. Yeah. They have way too many fetishes. that they need to look further into. This is a death fetish. That's fucked up.

Yeah. Okay, cool. But this says, look. But they live happily ever after. Contract is signed. We get no answers. Zero answers as to what happened to Jasper's body. Were there any questions about Jasper's body?

No, we get a full grown child. Well, they said that they were going to put his body in his car, roll down the window, and essentially make it look like he is fixing. No, I understand, like, the plan. But there's no investigation there. They're just going to be like, nobody's going to miss this guy. We don't. The captain's been looking to get them off the force for years.

They're going to thank us for this. You get, this flash forward has to be seven years later. At least, yeah. Because they're both at this event, and I'm like, what the hell is this? And why does she have this weird mom haircut now? She's a mom. Once again, they're trying to, like, she's a beautiful woman. And they're like, let's dumb it down.

Give her bangs. Now she looks like, put her in overalls. Perfect. Yeah. Let's simmer it down a little bit. John gets to keep being robbed. Let's simmer her down a little bit. He's got a full-grown kid.

I'm like, who the hell is that? Then they get back to their house. And this whole entire movie, sir, was a fucked-up episode of how I met your mother. Yeah, pretty much. That's a good way to look at it, yeah. That's what this was. Because it literally, the end of it goes,

how'd you guys meet? Well, let me tell you. Let me tell you that pie. All pie is good pie. And that was it. Credits. Yep. And I scrolled through to see if there was some after-credit scenes.

Maybe some bloopers. I thought maybe there'd be like a Jasper in the car waking up with a bag and like, this is where my brain went genuinely, waking up with a bag on his head and like a duffel bag with cash next to him. And like he didn't actually kill him, but he paid him. And so he like sails off into the sunset. Like he's not actually a murderer. Because once again, when we get to the end of this film,

these are bad people. I know Jasper's a bad guy. They're both murderers now And he killed a cop Jasper didn't murder anybody Yeah Ray didn't murder anybody They did

But these are our protagonists Yep Weird Weird real weird Much weird When it goes Picture of this man And then

This is a true story Yeah Are you shitting me At least the real Gary Johnson Served in like Vietnam And didn't murder anybody Didn't murder anybody Yeah they said

Shut the murder We made that up Huh you liked it sick really taught it all together didn't it now it's time

for what you've all been waiting for let's pull out the bromadometer zero through 10 bromados I'm giving this one a 5.3

5.3 bromados I'm going to go higher than that because I did enjoy it I thought there was a lot of holes in it the biggest one being we don't have to get that deep

I'm going a 6.2 on the romatometer meter. Yeah, it's definitely one of those. I think when I came into this, I was thinking somewhere in the six-ish range, low sixes. Do we pick it apart too much? And then as we kept going, I'm like, no, you know,

and it really, I didn't really enjoy it as much as I, not that I really enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was that good. Which is unbelievable, by the way, because it has a staggering 95% on Ros tomatoes. Yeah, it's got a 91% audience. 95 to 91. I wrote that down. I don't know for what.

For who? I think I enjoyed it. And like that's the thing about rom-coms, even bad ones. I tend to enjoy them regardless. So I liked it. I thought that what the saving grace was, honestly, Glenn Powell was great in it. Adria, I don't want to get this, I might be pronouncing it wrong, but Adriya Arjana, I believe, was the actress's name. She was fantastic.

I thought that, what, he's got Emilio. Austin Emilio. Austin Emilio, who was Jasper, he was phenomenal. Like, the cast was great. Reda? Reda. She was awesome. Claude was awesome.

So, like, the cast carried the movie. The story gets convoluted and wacky, but it was solid performances all around. So I think that's the saving race, especially Glenn Pallets' first. He's been in, obviously, he was Top Gun. He's been in some big movies. This is his first, like, stand-alone leading man role in a blockbuster film. And he did really well. Blockbuster.

Yeah, in today's standards, yeah. It's on Netflix. It wasn't on in theaters. I understand that, but I think with the bar of movies today being set unreasonably low because there's so many shit movies now, you would, yeah, this is, it's summer, Blockbuster. I understand that Blockbuster means you go to the box office and purchase tickets, but I think you would categorize it under that scope, just in general.

Sure. But, hey, you know, so 5.3, 6.3, that's about a what, 5.75, 5.8. 5.8 on the bromatometer meter. That's an original 5.8 for Hitman. I will tell you to watch it. Shooter. I think you can skip this one. Skip this. So it's a watch for me to skip from shoots, but it's definitely, if you need a background movie, throw it on. I will say once again, it's two hours. Yeah. Doesn't need to be. too long. But if you enjoyed this and you want some more bromance episodes and more rom-com

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