What you may need to know
1. He’s back. (sorry)
2. Aftermath is an upcoming drama based on the events and, er, aftermath of the Überlingen mid-air collision in 2002. Probably don’t read up on it if you don’t want to know how the film ends.
3. As you can see, Arnie plays a doting grandfather, and is acting his bristly beard off. Is this against type? It’s hard to tell. His post-political output has been patchy; his action chops aren’t what they used to be, while his indie/drama output has tried its best to utilise his singular presence to confound audience expectations with limited success. 2015’s Maggie was a bit of a revelation, while Terminator Gene-whatever was simply appalling. He looked like he didn’t even know where he was in The Expendables 3 (2014).
4. Also on Arnie’s slate, you’ve got action comedy Why We’re Killing Gunther (he plays Gunther) and Russo-Chinese fantasy adventure Viy 2: Journey to China (no, really) in which he stars alongside Jackie Chan, Rutger Hauer and Charles Dance. Sold. Oh, and The Expendables 4.
5. Aftermath is written by Javier Gullón (2013’s Enemy), and produced by Darren Aronofsky, whose The Wrestler (2008) was of course a brilliant paean for Mickey Rourke’s own career as well as his character’s. That’s the kind of thing Arnie should be angling for at this stage.
6. He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pain, or remorse, or fear. And he absolutely will not stop, EVER…until you apologise.
Verdict: They should have taken the chopper
Release Date: April 7, 2017.
Maggie was his best film, acting wise. And all his newer action films are very good,because he seems to understand he is too old to do a serious action film. If he can take the piss out if his old persona he’ll still have a few great films in him.
NEVER EVER make a cup of coffee while your in the middle of a game of Asteriods.
GET TO DAH OSCAHH
Überlingen was a horrible situation. Nielsen should have refused to work alone under those conditions, but I think the managers/ directors deserved harsher punishment than him. Leaving one controller to monitor two stations, with some of the warning equipment offline is disgraceful, as is the fact that the prison sentences handed down to Skyguide managers were suspended.
Vitaly Kaloyev, the guy who shot Nielsen is now deputy minister of construction in North Ossetia (bit of Russia just north of Georgia).
Having the controller in this movie be away from his station just to drink coffee skips over the issue of corporate culpability.
I thought he was stabbed?
He was stabbed. and he wasn’t working alone . he and his work collogue were taking turns getting the head down for a few hours as you do in those jobs with unsociable hours and no managers breathing down your neck.
Get your ass to Mars
Arnie is the second worst actor on the planet marginally behind Clint Eastwood.
Leo from Fair City by a mile.