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djKento’s review published on Letterboxd:
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What the fuck is this movie?! Denzel Washington plays a D.A. who, as a young cop, sends a professional hit man to prison... that hit man? John Lithgow. So now a super weird, milky eyed John Lithgow is out to kill Denzel.
This movie is ridiculous. I don't even know where to begin. There's nothing about it that's even close to realistic and it's pacing is ludicrous.
In the first few minutes nearly an entire decade of time seems to fly by as we go from Denzel's character as a rookie cop, to a detective and by the ten minute mark he's a district attorney with a kid. It opens with Denzel getting a girl's number. Exactly 30 minutes in their second daughter is being baptized and their other daughter is about seven.
Also there's some insanity going on in the prison that Lithgow's character is in. He's given Jesse Ventura as a room mate, who's ass he IMMEDIATELY kicks and then for NO REASON they're in a fight to see who the best aryan is. The fight is a battle to the death with phone book and duck tape armor and GIANT prison made metal swords. No guards, no rules... It's so insane. But I guess when the director of Highlander makes a movie it better have a sparking sword fight. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MOVIE EVEN!?
John Lithgow has been a villain in a bunch of movies, but never before was he just hamming it up to the absolute max like he does in Ricochet.
This movie features some of the dumbest people ever... from a woman who walks out of a portapotty straight into a killer's arms, to a woman who walks by a body hanging from the ceiling twice and misses it. It's seriously just the worst.
How anyone recovered from what a horse shit horrible movie this is... well it's beyond me.