John Cena's new movie gets 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
John Cena's new movie Freelance has been slated in first reviews, with the movie earning a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The action comedy follows Cena's ex-special forces operative Mason Pettits, who takes on a job providing security for a journalist called Claire Wellington (Alison Brie) as she interviews the dictator (Juan Pablo Raba) of a fictional country called Paldonia.
However, a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, forcing the trio into a jungle escape together as they try to survive.
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However, the movie from director Pierre Morel (Taken) and writer Jacob Lentz has been attracting pretty negative reviews across the board, with many critics suggesting that the film's many elements don't come together.
Here's what reviewers have been saying:
The Hollywood Reporter
"As a wish-fulfillment vehicle, Freelance is naked in its aims. It does not attempt to gussy up its vision in high style, or bury it in layers of comic book metaphor, or shade it with elaborate hand-wringing. But it’s missing the most crucial element of fun."
Slant Magazine
"By its conclusion, what we’re left with is a cinematic Frankenstein, whose disparate genre elements have been cobbled together without much consideration or fuss. As such, the film ultimately feels as aimless as it does airless – too blasé for its more serious messaging to land and not nearly funny enough to make you forget it."
Collider
"Freelance looks cheaply made, and while this film puts Cena, Brie, and Raba in a chase for their lives across Paldonia, this always looks as though it was filmed on backlots and green screens. The action is never exciting, the jokes never land, and the pacing is all over the place."
IGN
"You’ve seen everyone involved in Freelance present their talents infinitely better in other projects. There is no peace to be made with John Cena’s lead performance; Alison Brie doesn’t endear herself to the filmgoing community.
"Pierre Morel's uninspired work behind the camera goes hand in hand with the film’s nondescript title, dragging viewers through a moodless, toothless action hybrid that, at its best, plays as forgettably inept even with ammunition flying in all directions."
Freelance is out now in US cinemas.
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