The problem is that it never gets so bad that it becomes good. It isn’t aggressively bad, it’s just reliably, lazily, consistently bad.
There’s probably no version of this film, even the conceptual one that presumably existed in David Ayer’s head, that would ever be any good, and that’s refreshing, you know? I’ve already seen fellow critics claiming it’s the worst film of the year, which is ridiculous. The best thing about this film is that it’s bad all the way through and in all the ways that matter, so there’s none of that disappointment in thinking it could have been better if only it weren’t so badly plotted and incomprehensibly edited. If this is the film Ayer makes when left to his own devices, it’s looking increasingly like the good stuff he’s made were the flukes, not the other way around.Īnyway, The Tax Collector. His latest effort didn’t have any studio meddling, as far as I’m aware, which does make one wonder if those people still hankering after the “Ayer Cut” of Suicide Squad are perhaps barking up the wrong tree. But I quite like David Ayer, and I’d happily argue that from 2012 to 2014 he made back-to-back bangers in the cop thriller End of Watch, the enjoyably bloody Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle Sabotage, and his all-star World War II tank actioner, Fury, in which LaBeouf also starred and gave a good account of himself. Many people expected this, but for the wrong reasons – Shia LeBeouf playing Latino in the latest film from the outspoken director of Bright and Suicide Squad is a pretty ripe recipe for mockery, after all. A much bigger one is that The Tax Collector is pretty impressively and sometimes bafflingly awful.
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The whole film’s full of offhandedly racist portrayals anyway if LeBeouf is co-opting the culture just to be lazily and disparagingly stereotyped in unity with his co-stars, then that seems like the least of anyone’s problems. I had the same problem with Theo Rossi’s character Shades in Marvel’s Luke Cage, but it matters even less here than it did there. I don’t really have any idea if Creeper is supposed to be a Latino or a kind of Latino by osmosis. It felt once again like his real-life exploits getting in the way of his talents why worry about his ink when you could instead be laughing at his nebulously Latinx impression instead? I mention this because the real-life tattoo that one assumes he got in order to more completely understand his gangland enforcer character Creeper, a supporting player in David Ayer’s messy new thriller The Tax Collector, caused a bit of a stir. Shia LaBeouf is famously quite an odd fellow, which sometimes overshadows the fact that he’s a really good actor when the mood strikes him, as it has recently in both The Peanut Butter Falcon and Honey Boy. The Tax Collector proves itself another messy David Ayer thriller that’s somehow not as bad as people will pretend but nowhere near any good.
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