![]() ![]() When Liam Neeson’s Honest Thief is earning maybe 1/3 of what it otherwise would have grossed, then I get the studios not wanting to throw otherwise surefire biggies like Black Widow and No Time to Die to the wolves. Yes, it was a mostly empty theater (as was usually the case for a movie like this on a Friday morning) and yes, I wore a mask, but it was nice to be back, and it’s sadly ironic (if understandable) that California theaters started to reopen just as Hollywood essentially took their ball and moved to 2021. I don’t want to oversell it, but The Empty Man was also my first casual theatrical moviegoing experience since Emma back in late February. ![]() ![]() Yes, it very much peaks in the first 75 minutes, but it’s well-acted (Stephen Root gets a terrific extended cameo), surprisingly colorful and impressively “big” in terms of scale (it’s like a Scream Gems flick with actual production values) and occasionally unnerving. There’s a minor running joke in the movie that Myers often has his small white-and-brown dog named Tazzie with him. The 137-minute (including an ambitious, snow-bound 23-minute prologue, natch), R-rated horror flick is exactly the kind of thing that gets a D+ from Cinemascore, but I somewhat enjoyed it. Written and directed by David Prior, the James Badge Dale-starring supernatural thriller earned $1.265 million from a $450,000 Friday (an okay 2.81x multiplier) is based on Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. In the meantime, the dynamic between Tom and Agent Nive ns hints at a more daring movie altogether, as N ive ns leaves a trail of bodies in his wake like the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (ironic, given. Disney released 20th Century Studios’ The Empty Man into 2,027 mostly empty theaters. ![]()
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