The Bouncer / Lukas is the story of the titular character who is a 50-something bouncer at a club. He lives with his young daughter. One night at the club some arrogant patron dies accidentally after being interrogated in a private room by JVCD with no one to see. The patron falls on the floor after tripping and may have hit a stair and then - in less than 2 seconds - there is a pool of blood forming around the man, shot to the face of JVCD wincing... and the rest of the audience since it is so poorly executed.
In order to rush the story along, there is confusion about him being fired from the club, supposedly police looking into it and him, etc. He is then confronted by some guy who supposedly takes care of important problems in Europe (but you aren't told exactly what that means.) He wants JVCD to work for him to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring. That's where being a bouncer ends and now he is a bodyguard.
The film itself has decent production values. But the script isn't credible at all, leaps logic in a number of places and just doesn't feel right at all. Without giving away the film, you have to wonder why Lukas, a guy who trusts no one, suddenly places a ridiculous amount of trust at certain times when it makes absolutely no sense other than for the absurdly obvious to happen to push the film along to the next plot line.
My guess is that the idea is to get the audience to play into the big reveal. The problem is that it's so poorly set up that it's more of a bad cheat than a reveal.
JVCD isn't doing as much fighting in this film as prior, just a couple of scenes to get you to think he's still tough. The other characters are pure cardboard cutout and you don't know much about them and just there to serve up another drama. JVCD is fine but the film is unfortunately a total waste of time.
In order to rush the story along, there is confusion about him being fired from the club, supposedly police looking into it and him, etc. He is then confronted by some guy who supposedly takes care of important problems in Europe (but you aren't told exactly what that means.) He wants JVCD to work for him to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring. That's where being a bouncer ends and now he is a bodyguard.
The film itself has decent production values. But the script isn't credible at all, leaps logic in a number of places and just doesn't feel right at all. Without giving away the film, you have to wonder why Lukas, a guy who trusts no one, suddenly places a ridiculous amount of trust at certain times when it makes absolutely no sense other than for the absurdly obvious to happen to push the film along to the next plot line.
My guess is that the idea is to get the audience to play into the big reveal. The problem is that it's so poorly set up that it's more of a bad cheat than a reveal.
JVCD isn't doing as much fighting in this film as prior, just a couple of scenes to get you to think he's still tough. The other characters are pure cardboard cutout and you don't know much about them and just there to serve up another drama. JVCD is fine but the film is unfortunately a total waste of time.