Movie of the Week: Skiptrace
Alexa: “Skiptrace” somehow manages to be too much and not enough at the same time. Everything about this movie is over-the-top, from the stylized character intros to the cheesy dialogue to the slow motion close-ups of meaningful moments (seriously, how many times are we going to pan down to that watch?). I am all for big, dumb movies that are self aware enough to lean into the silliness and have fun with it, but unfortunately “Skiptrace” is not one of those movies. What we’re left with instead is jokes that don’t land, a story that makes little sense and characters that just don’t click. It’s hard to fault Jackie Chan too much because he’s such a delightful person, and the scenes that allow him to do his action hero thing are the most interesting to watch. Between those sequences, the movie drags to a painfully slow degree. But there are adorable alpacas wearing red scarves, so I guess that’s something? Joel: The reasoning behind picking this movie was that I had recently...