The supporting cast ranges from over-qualified (Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh) to head-scratching (Mel Gibson, Rob Gronkowski), but this is the Grillo show all the way, an often silly yet convincing argument for his skills.
Despite the quasi-futuristic setting, the music, the cartoonish villains, and the video game references all recall an earlier era where an actor like Grillo might have shined. Boss Level, a brisk adventure that puts the buff actor in a Groundhog Day-like time loop trap where he fights off attackers and dies trying every day, is aware of Grillo's throwback star power, a strand of grizzled tough-guy charisma, and filmmaker Joe Carnahan, working from a script he co-wrote with Chris and Eddie Borey, wraps his lead in self-aware '80s and '90s nostalgia. Where to watch: Netflix ( Watch the trailer) HuluĬast: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeohįrank Grillo, a menacing scene-stealer in the MCU and a charming lead in scrappy thrillers like The Purge: Anarchy and Wheelman, has been underserved by the damaged modern action movie ecosystem. From the first scene, the Spanish film's bleak and foreboding tone carries the action-centering on a police officer tasked with working alongside a new partner to oversee a "high-risk transfer" involving the deadly head of a Romanian gang across icy, barren terrain-even as the plot melts away to reveal a more conventional revenge movie slicked with brutal violence. Below Zero is a particularly gruesome example of what the "transfer-gone-wrong" genre has to offer, a close-quarters thriller that works best when it keeps its characters confined to the tightest possible space. Any time a group of incarcerated individuals get placed in a large vehicle (the more box-like and state-of-the-art the better), you can guarantee something unbearably tense is about to go down. Prisoner transportation might be the task with the worst success-to-failure ratio in all of action movie-dom. ( Will Smith is signed on to play the Genie, and sources say the studio is after a known quantity for the role of the villain Jafar.Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde, Isak Férriz, Luis Callejo Sources say the studio is eyeing Power Rangers actress Naomi Scott, 24, or Indian actress Tara Sutaria, 21, to play Jasmine, but can’t lock the deal until the male lead has been selected since chemistry is so important to the story. While the studio had interest in Dev Patel, 27, and Riz Ahmed, 34, the male lead will likely be a newcomer. “The test process was a mess,” says one agent with a client who tested. Sources say there have been several rounds of tests in London, with the actors coming in for up to two weeks at a time. The original casting call specified that production was slated to begin by July, but the search has dragged on, with Disney and Ritchie having to go back to the drawing board multiple times. But finding a male lead in his 20s who can act and sing has proven difficult - especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent (the animated film is set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah).
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