Film Review – The Man from Toronto

Australian director Patrick Hughes has recently made a career out of movies where action is wildly exaggerated and the cast often screams their way through their performances. He’s the helmer behind “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” and “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” two exceedingly ear-splitting endeavors, and he’s trying to recreate the same atmosphere with “The Man from Toronto,” which stars Kevin Hart, and he’s no stranger to the ways of sustained on-screen panic attacks. “The Man from Toronto” hopes to use Hart for comedic purposes while Hughes gets to manage many set pieces involving chases and violent stand-offs. Bullets fly, cars explode, and near-misses are plentiful, but laughs are non-existent in the picture, which doesn’t ask Hart to do anything different than what he normally brings to the screen, while co-star Woody Harrelson is tasked with playing a dark figure of doom, allowing him few opportunities to be funny in a feature that needs a significant boost in the banter department. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com