Saturday, August 27, 2022
Samaritan
In Granite City 25 years ago, two superhuman twins, Samaritan & Nemesis, representing good & evil, supposedly fought to a fiery death. Jumping to the present, an innocent 13-year-old boy Sam idolizes the Samaritan character & a slimy criminal Cyrus wants to emulate the evil Nemesis. Sam & his single mom live in a poor part of town struggling to make ends meet. When Cyrus finds Nemesis’s weapon, a specially forced hammer, he takes it as a sign to lead a revolution of the city’s oppressed poor in a disruptive take over. Joe Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is a quiet solitary figure, a neighbor to Sam, & a garage man who collects broken junk to repair them. One day, Joe reveals some superhero skills when he rescues Sam from being bullied by a local gang of thieves. Sam suspects he has uncovered the real Samaritan. But why is Joe in hiding & not using is special powers to help people? Of course, everything leads to the big climax. This is an entertaining action thriller about a aging older man with a secret past who meets a poor boy looking for a father figure.
Alien gives it 3 “broken watch” stars out of 4.
