Last night, I watched the 2022’s action film, Double Threat!
Why Was I Watching It?
I attended two watch parties on Monday and Double Threat was the second feature. Jeff, Leonard, and I watched Double Threat with out friends Brad and Sierra and a few others. Sierra was the one who recommended the film, having seen it while at work the previous week. It was a fun night! We enjoy watching movies together.
What Was It About?
Natalie (Danielle C. Ryan) has a job at a huge convenience store that is sitting in the middle of nowhere. She does a good job working at the place, though her only regular customer is just an old man who enjoys asking Natalie to climb a ladder for him.
When an army of gunmen show up looking to kill Natalie, Natalie slips into her second personality of Natasha and goes on the run with a mild-mannered guy named Jimmy (Matthew Lawrence) who just happened to be in the store at the wrong time. As Nat explains it to Jimmy, the convenience store was actually a front of the mob and Natasha (but not Natalie) was skimming money. So now, the entire mob is looking to kill her. Meanwhile, Jimmy just wants to make it to the coast so that he can spread the ashes of his dead brother. (Awwwwwww!)
Heading up the search for Nat is Ask (Dawn Oliveri) and Ellis (Kevin Joy). Ellis is the son of a mob boss and he’s eager to prove that he’s more than just the boss’s son. However, he’s also Natasha’s former boyfriend and, whenever he has a chance to shoot her, he tends to instead start demanding to know why they broke up. No wonder Ask keeps getting frustrated!
What Worked?
Danielle C. Ryan did a good job playing both Natalie and Natasha and she had very likable chemistry with Matthew Laurence. They made for a natural couple and I did find myself really hoping that things would work out for the two of them.
Most of the action took place in the country. I’m a city girl at heart but I do still have a soft spot for the natural, undeveloped corners of America and this film provided a lot of nice scenery.
What Did Not Work?
The plot was a bit too overly complicated. To be honest, I think the film would have worked just as fine (and would probably have flowed a bit better) if it had abandoned the whole idea of Nat having multiple personalities and had instead just had her be a badass who happened to work at a convenience store.
While I did occasionally laugh at Ellis’s inability to corner Natasha without demanding to know why she had dumped him, the scenes with Ellis and Ask got a bit repetitive.
“Oh my God! Just Like Me!” Moments
Nat and I definitely have the same philosophy when it comes to driving. Of course, Nat had the excuse that she had a bunch of mob assassins after her. I just like to drive fast.
Lessons Learned
Never accept a job working at a mob front. Not only do you have like absolutely no job security but apparently, you’ll end up having to run the entire store by yourself.
Through the Shattered Lens 