Sam Worthington stars as an Australian sniper involved in a violently incomplete business deal in "Transfusion," a thriller about a father, son, comrade-in-arms, and late wife who continues to lecture her husband, postmortem, about how he's "failing." ". ”The boy of him. Rugby star-turned-actor Matt Nable wrote, directed and co-stars in this meandering, wobbly thriller that reaches pathos between fights and gunfights, and never seems to go out of its own way.
We meet Corporal Ryan Logan (Worthington) and his Sergeant Johnny (Nable) as they are on a small-scale "recovery" mission in Iraq. Logan is a sniper who ends up taking a bullet meant for his partner when they finally close in on his prey. Back home, Ryan has a little boy (Gilbert Bradman) whom he's trying to teach manly hunting skills, a beautiful wife (Phoebe Tonkin) and another baby on the way. A car accident while on duty ruins his perfect life. "Eight Years Later," he can't hold down a job, his teenage son (Edward Carmody) is in trouble, and his old pal Johnny needs his help on the only kind of "job" they could both have. . good at doing “One night, in and out, zero rounds”.
Director: Matt Nable
Writer: Matt Nable
Stars: Sam Worthington, Phoebe Tonkin, Matt Nable
Nable, who played rugby league for Manly-Warringah and South Sydney in the 1990s, gives us a story rich in nuance and irony. Nable's father was a soldier. Tom Keneally is said to have mentored the young player at Manly. Transfusion is, in a sense, a film about two ronin, the stateless samurai of Japanese legend. What do men trained in violence do once they are no longer allowed to use their training?
A pre-credits night sequence shows a raid on an Iraqi outpost. Sam Worthington, as SAS sniper Ryan Logan, shoots down several men before being wounded himself. Nable, as his commanding officer Johnny, assures him that he will survive. A year or two later, back in Sydney, Logan and his wife (Phoebe Tonkin) are expecting a daughter. His son Billy (played well at eight by Gilbert Bradman) wonders about masculinity. On a hunting trip with his father, the boy refuses to kill a deer. His father tells him that refusing the rifle took courage.
For reasons that must remain obscure, Logan accepts an offer some years later to help Johnny with something illegal. “In and out, zero rounds,” Johnny assures him. Of course, it doesn't play out that way.
Nable also wrote the script. Worthington has the leading role, but the relationship between the men is the attractive part, because Nable offers us two characters at different points on the PTSD spectrum. One is trying to forget, to erase and forgive oneself; the other is far beyond that, with no way back. “I don't have a moral compass,” Johnny says, smiling as if he has a death wish. Between these two is the boy Billy, now about 16 (and played by Edward Carmody), who is out of control, looking for guidance.
If the script has more depth than a run-of-the-mill action movie, it's partly due to Worthington's intense performance and partly to Nable's confident, careful direction. He knows exactly what to leave out, what keeps things moving, and he's careful to maintain credibility. There are three distinct time frames, the action nimbly flitting between them without confusion: haircuts tell us where we are.
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