As the poster states, they’re gonna need more men.
Writing movie - poster taglines is an underappreciated prowess . You want to entice your interview without giving away too much of the plot , you desire to make your film sound interesting and exciting in as few words as possible , and — best - pillowcase scenario — you want the text on the poster to squirm its way into people ’s brain so they ’re unable to cerebrate about anything else besides seeing it . Alien ’s " In outer space no one can try you scream " is a classic . " We are not alone , " states theClose Encounters of the Third Kindposter . " Be afraid . Be very afraid " is so famous no one remembers it ’s actually from the poster for David Cronenberg’sThe Fly . And it does n’t get much better thanAlien vs. Predator ’s minacious " Whoever wins … we lose . "
Blacklight , Liam Neeson ’s latest old - guy cable - with - a - gun natural process flick ( he genuinely playact a gramps in this one),would have remain well below my radar were it not for its post horse , which was give up to the populace about a month ago . The graphics is nothing to indite home about — a yawp Neeson wears a colored crown and get hold of a deadly weapon ; must be a Tuesday — but the tagline at the bottom has been pinballing through my brain every twenty-four hour period since I see it . " They ’re gon na need more men , " the poster growls . Who isthey ? Who are thesemen ? Why would they needmoreof them ? I had to know . The tagline worked !
So , how many men are really in it?Blacklight , directed by Mark Williams ( Honest Thief ) , start with the pachydermatous execution of a female pol . ( If anything , this movie ask more women ! ! Hold for hand clapping . ) The moody title was done by a killer Uber driver and his every bit killer partner , under the hover regard of the Washington Monument ( and we all knowwhat that represents ) . It ’s not until the next scene that we meet Neeson ’s character , Travis Block , a name that number straight fromMystery Science Theater 3000’ssend - up ofSpace Mutiny . He ride a Dodge Challenger , and while most cars are girls , Dodge Challengers are boy . Block work for the FBI , avail out his fellow agents when they get into a fix and bringing them back to the fold when they campaign astray . An broker he saves from a bunch of shotgun - waving , Confederate - flag - fly swell is a fair sex ; their boss , FBI conductor Gabriel Robinson ( Aidan Quinn ) , is a man .
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The plot set out to thicken when one of the politician murderers , a blue - eyed agent mention Dusty Crane , which is less a human ’s name than a verbal description of construction machinery , spring up a conscience . Crane ( Sharp Objects’sTaylor John Smith ) turns out to be one of the FBI ’s human race , and he ’s all in put on exposing the administration ’s crashing arcanum to the press , namely sharp distaff journalist Mira Jones ( Emmy Raver - Lampman ) , who , in the parlance of these sort of movies , is localise to mess up this whole thing wide open , and who have a small dog named Little Man . She answers to her curmudgeonly male Bos ( Tim Draxl ) , possessor of a snazzy red Porsche ( Porsches are girl ) .
Block is desperate to spend more time with his daughter and granddaughter , who proceed drawing a adult male with her crayon , but his FBI - factor paranoia is concerning to the piffling girl ’s female parent ( Claire van der Boom ) , who wants her daughter to have the normal puerility she did n’t get . When Block , Crane , and Mira finally go on the run , they ’re dogged at every spell by a yoke of unscrupulous killers ( one of which was the Uber number one wood in the porta scene ) . Near the end , the bad guy add together a third to their rank , but he does n’t last very long .
So , where does that leave us ? Out ofBlacklight ’s last reckoning of 11 man , including one car and one dagger and excluding the unknown figure of trigger - happy white supremacists in Block ’s introductory scene , only four of these belong to to the antagonistic " they " of the film ’s poster , work against our paladin ' following of truth , judge , and the American way . consider what happens to all of them by the destruction , I ’d say they definitely involve more than that .
