2020 Directed by David Ayer
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
Bobby Soto Cinthya Carmona George Lopez Elpidia Carrillo Shia LaBeouf Lana Parrilla Chelsea Rendon Cheyenne Rae Hernandez Noemi Gonzalez Gabriela Flores Rene Moran Cle Shaheed Sloan Lee Coc Randy Gonzalez Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez Quinn Early Jay Reeves Ricardo Gonzalez Brendan Schaub Zailee Madrigal Karrie Martin Juan Carlos Cantu Steve Louis Villegas Valentina Latyna Plascencia Paola Paulin Cuete Yeska
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Even by Ayer's standards this is woefully generic. Formally and narratively indistinguishable from like an FX series circa 2005. Shia's fun and not in it enough.
what was supposed to be a return to form of sorts for David Ayer—returning to the LA crime films he was originally known for—is actually just a muddled & misogynistic atrocity that leans way too far into stereotypes. it’s Ayer, once again, mistaking vulgarity and graphic violence as substance, focusing on the the violent outbursts and empty threats of LaBeouf’s Creeper (who’s essentially in brown face here) rather than capturing the true essence of the culture he so often dehumanizes in his “LA gang films.” and on top of that, Ayer thought it’d be a grand idea to portray every woman as seemingly powerless objects of men’s fantasies. it’s utterly abhorrent trash that fails on every single level. Ayer should be ashamed.
I love Shia and that he got chest piece tattoos for the movie lol. Wanted to dig this but this but Ayer makes it really hard sometimes... sadly this falls into the total jabroni pissfest catagory—Not my thing at all.
Bummer.
👎🏻48%
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I was genuinely excited for this film, and a lot of it has to do with rooting for Ayer. He seems like a passionate filmmaker, and he’s had some success in the past. Recently watching End of Watch gave me the motivation I needed to believe in this idea. A "tax collector" for a crime lord finds his family's safety compromised when his boss' old rival shows up in LA and upends his business. We have a premise for an intense Crime-centric Thriller. We have a Director who pairs nicely with this story. We have an awesome duo at the forefront. Shia got a freaking tattoo for this role. So why does…
"Are we killing anybody today? I’ve got fucking nice shoes on."
There's very little to discuss when tackling The Tax Collector, let alone admire. Most tonally and stylistically comparable to the writer-director's efforts Sabotage and Harsh Times—with the predictably ill-conceived, borderline racist depictions that spoil End of Watch—David Ayer's latest stretches itself surprisingly thin while consistently abandoning character, clarity, and any shred of creativity in the name of a desperate attitude and grueling presentation. Even before we've had any real time to sink into this convoluted 95-minute L.A. yarn, the unironic machismo and family man schtick run completely dry while the overripe violence never ceases to bore. The film tries so, so, so hard to convince you that it's dangerous…
This just goes to show that David Ayer is definitely the kind of guy who would unironically still wear those types of airbrushed graffiti t-shirts which has a Looney Tunes character dressed as a gangster on it.
The worst movie of 2020 so far. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-tax-collector-movie-review-2020
THE TAX COLLECTOR claims it’s about love, honor, loyalty & family but all I see is lifeless, horrific & bloody misogyny. Shia LaBeouf (Best part of the movie) has been mis-marketed as the film’s lead while Ayer fails to inject the film with any sense of style or originality. Ends with a fourth wall breaking shot which sets up a sequel that I hope we never get.
The Tax Collector is one of those films that seems like a *shrug* "it is what it is" kind of movie, then suddenly BAM! you realise it's really shit. The signs are there from the start though, because the substandard crime dramatics, dripping in edgelord machismo, really should be obvious from the opening credits. Especially when it unironically has these words appear onscreen:
"Love
Honor
Loyalty
Family"
Imagine *literally* spelling out your themes in the opening titles and not even bothering to make them sound original. Could there be anything more generic than a crime film about loyalty and family?
So The Tax Collector is self-serious nonsense. It is also a completely asinine male fantasy. Our opening scenes show us…
"They say you're the devil" - David
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Shia surprise!
The Tax Collector is a little boring, a little predictable... it's derivative... it's just all around not great but if you can shut your brain off there are a few fun action scenes and the story is pretty watchable. Oh also there's Shia acting his weird ass off. Watching Shia in this movie is what I imagine it would be like to watch Lebron play against a group of decent high school basketball players. He stands out as being so much better than everyone else that it kind of brings the whole movie down. I don't know... this just should have been better.
LaBeouf thirst only.
So Shia LaBeouf got a full chest tattoo and it's on screen for like 5 seconds!...
I should probably rate it lower as I found the film disgusting, but I'll get David Ayer the benefit of the doubt.
What starts out as a mildly entertaining, albeit cliche-ridden crime drama, ends up as straight-to-DVD-quality in my eyes. This is another one of those movies that I gradually dislike the more I think about it. If you're familiar with David Ayer's work, you know the guy loves making crime movies set in L.A. This one is no different; it's rife with tropes from his other movies, both character and plot wise. I can't buy Shia Labeouf in this role. Not once was I convinced that I should be terrified of him, especially with how undignified his character's fate is. Am I supposed to fear 'Louis Stevens'? His Chicano accent is awful too. Speaking of people that are miscast: George freaking…
⚠️52%
Not gonna lie I was super disappointed by this movie. I have some spoiler stuff I will say in a minute, but for now Shia Labeouf was So underutilized in this movie, theres some really dumb character decisions, and the movie kinda falls apart in the third act a bit. But its definitely an entertaining movie its just really frustrating how the third act falls apart.
Spoiler Alert
Shia Labeouf doesn't even shoot a gun in the entire movie after acting like he's the biggest baddest guy out there and then he dies. And it was just too much people dies. Its a everybody dies situation without feeling earned. Its just out of no where and is unnecessary and…
A ridiculously grotesque and pathetic glorification of steretotypical machismo culture. A movie so bad it's offensive.
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