Samaritan
Samaritan is a 2022 American superhero film directed by Julius Avery and written by Bragi F. Schut. Described as a gritty and dark take on superhero movies, the story was previously adapted into the Mythos Comics graphic novels by Schut, Marc Olivent, and Renzo Podesta. It is a co-production of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Balboa Productions. The film stars Sylvester Stallone in the main role, Javon "Wanna" Walton, Pilou Asbæk, Dascha Polanco, and Moisés Arias. The story follows a kid who suspects that his neighbor is secretly a superhero who was believed to have died many years prior.
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Joe: Not as strong as I once was, things start to fall apart when you stop caring, and I stopped caring a long time ago.
- This is the second Sylvester Stallone film in which one of the bad guys is called Cyrus. The first was Get Carter (2000).
- In Cyrus's warehouse the arcade game Robocop can be seen. A parallel movie where the city is in chaos and anarchy looking for a beacon of hope.
- When Sam is injured in the hospital, the PA says, 'Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis, telephone please." This is an old hospital sound effect found on a unidentified sound effect album, that is very common in use for background effects. It's also famously found at the beginning of the 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime by Queensrÿche, in the opening of 'T.nT.' by Motley Crue (1989), and 'Catapult' by Phish (1992), as well as being recognized in many other TV shows and movies.
- There are a few hints that Joe Smith is in fact Nemesis, not Samaritan. The opening credits sequence focuses on the creation of the hammer used by Nemesis. Even after Sam learns the truth about Joe's power and Joe comes clean with him, Joe continues to state, truthfully, that he is NOT Samaritan. Sam never thought to ask if Joe was Nemesis - Joe simply wouldn't volunteer that information. At several points during his fights with gang members, Joe shows extreme rage before hesitating and then performing a non-lethal attack. This is Joe fighting his villainous urge to kill and instead show restraint as his brother would have.
- This is the second time Pilou Asbæk got killed as a villain, Cyrus in both Julius Avery's movies. This and Overlord (2018).
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