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- 2021
- Joe Russo (1)
- 142 mins
- 18
Summary
Cherry (Tom Holland) drops out of college to enrol at the local Armed Forces Career Centre. Serving as an army medic in Iraq, Cherry witnesses the unvarnished horrors of conflict and returns home with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prescription drugs and heroin temporarily keep him on an even keel but when his finances become dangerously depleted, the haggard veteran turns to bank robbery to fund his addiction.
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A star rating of 2 out of 5.
Kevin Harley
After the interplanetary thrills of their Marvel Studios movies, the Russo brothers fall awkwardly to earth with this heavy-handed issues drama. A forced bid to earn prestige respect, the film's main hook is Spider-Man swinger Tom Holland's committed lead performance as Cherry, a nervy Ohio everyman who joins the army and returns home with PTSD. Along with his lover (Ciara Bravo), Cherry soon lapses into drug addiction, then turns to bank robbery to pay for the highs. Drawn from real-life veteran Nico Walker's semi-autobiographical novel, Cherry mixes faux-literary chapter headings and wincingly on-the-nose dialogue to chart the couple's strenuously grim descent into hell - and its stabs at social commentary are equally blunt. The Russos try to charge up the predictable plot with flashy stylisations - freeze frames, slow-motion - but these cod-Scorsese distractions grow wearisome long before the operatic, self-important finale.
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rolenameCherryTom Holland (2)EmilyCiara BravoPills & CokeJack ReynorTommyMichael RispoliJimenezJeffrey WahlbergJames LightfootForrest GoodluckCousin JoeMichael Gandolfini
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rolenameDirectorJoe Russo (1)DirectorAnthony Russo
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2021-03-12
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