Jolt

Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): July 23, 2021

5.5	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 54 Ratings

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JLuis_001Jul 25, 2021

Kate Beckinsale can play the badass role without any problem.
The Underworld saga is her legacy despite its quality, but that's the only thing that could be mentioned about this painful and sloppy story in which they try to turn her into aKate Beckinsale can play the badass role without any problem.
The Underworld saga is her legacy despite its quality, but that's the only thing that could be mentioned about this painful and sloppy story in which they try to turn her into a kind of female Crank while using a true behavioral disorder as a catalyst and to some extent a punchline.

Jolt is trash released as a big name by Amazon.
Here's the true death of cinema in a movie that would've died miserably in the theaters.… Expand

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MovieTurtleJul 23, 2021

A mess of a movie.
With a clearly aging Beckinsale unable to do most of her own stunts, a movie all about violence and fighting joins the list of terrible jump cut spammed monstrosities. She's still got the look and the voice, but the movieA mess of a movie.
With a clearly aging Beckinsale unable to do most of her own stunts, a movie all about violence and fighting joins the list of terrible jump cut spammed monstrosities. She's still got the look and the voice, but the movie would have been better with a younger lead.
The story was straight forward and predictable.
The characters were split between really well done to complete garbage caricatures.
The cinematography had some nice shots and some terrible low quality slow motion.
Will probably never watch it again… Expand

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DexEngineerApr 6, 2022

Promising start of this movie quickly changes into cheap inconsistent mess. Packed with great deal of woke nonsense but missing proper story. Locaions on a budget. One more thing... the protagonist need logopedic training due to very badPromising start of this movie quickly changes into cheap inconsistent mess. Packed with great deal of woke nonsense but missing proper story. Locaions on a budget. One more thing... the protagonist need logopedic training due to very bad articulation of words. Did not finish acting school? Verdict... you can pass this garbage.… Expand

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BroyaxDec 5, 2021

La jolie Kate a dû (encore) passer sur le billard… parce qu’elle ne fait (vraiment) pas ses 48 balais !… je féliciterai personnellement le charcudoc ! Cela étant, elle n’est certainement pas mollassonne et on voit bien qu’elle s’entretient.La jolie Kate a dû (encore) passer sur le billard… parce qu’elle ne fait (vraiment) pas ses 48 balais !… je féliciterai personnellement le charcudoc ! Cela étant, elle n’est certainement pas mollassonne et on voit bien qu’elle s’entretient. Elle reste de fait une sacrée bonnasse, ma foi (bravo le charcudoc… non je suppose que ce sont les pilates, tout ça et tout le reste !).

Quoi qu’il en soit, Kate joue ici la fille très nerveuse, sujette à des crises d’ultra-violence pour un oui ou pour un non… ce qui fait penser d’une certaine façon à l’excellent Serial Mother… à une grosse différence près cependant : Jolt est très mauvais !

Ce n’est en effet même pas un nanar d’action au moins correct mais une simple comédie de merde à l’humour souvent graveleux, vulgaire et con (« vous pétez dans l’ascenseur ? ») dont le scénar tout foireux s’avère… pratiquement inexistant. De toute façon, on ne se donne même pas la peine d’aller jusqu’à la fin de cette production Amacon : on a mieux à faire… malgré Kate !… Expand

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MetacriticOnurJul 25, 2021

bad
[ bad ]

adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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dharmaSep 11, 2021

Horrible wannabe action film that was so contrived that it was probably dumped yet again on a streaming service. It aims to become a John Wick like franchise, yet fails to deliver any memorable action set pieces whatsoever. Moreover, if youHorrible wannabe action film that was so contrived that it was probably dumped yet again on a streaming service. It aims to become a John Wick like franchise, yet fails to deliver any memorable action set pieces whatsoever. Moreover, if you see the arc of this character, she would have looked like a 'Ronda Rousey'- MMA type person, not somebody like Kate Beckinsdale. You are lead to believe that somebody as dysfunctional as her would be patient enough to draw perfect make up, and looking great throughout the movie. Again folks, believability and context are important in these types of flicks. So when they went ballistic with the action sequences, audiences would go on with the ride. This one didn't achieve that purpose.… Expand

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AkilaxAug 29, 2021

What a disappointment.

Considering the budget that was available for this movie, the result is an utter failure. The writing is just horrible with both the story and the characters seeming like early attempts at a movie by some collegeWhat a disappointment.

Considering the budget that was available for this movie, the result is an utter failure. The writing is just horrible with both the story and the characters seeming like early attempts at a movie by some college students.

In a lot of scenes you have to sit there and realize how the plot and characters are completely incoherent. I honestly expected that there would be a superhero reveal at some point, because the punishment Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) can dish out as well as soak up, is way beyond what any human being could. Her condition does not explain it at all.

It's a shame that Kate Beckinsale wasn't put to a better use than this. But also many of the other actors would have had a lot more potential than what they were allowed to show here. It is sad to see that the director didn't have the first clue as to what to do with them.

You'll be needing a lot of booze to enjoy yourself with this movie, as it offers nothing above average and even only a few moments reach a level of mediocrity. I recommend you skip this movie entirely.… Expand

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arostislavnaJul 28, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gives people with IED a bad name, by "scaring" people into thinking they want to murder you randomly. IED is a form of PTSD, NOT sociopathy.

With that said, the action scenes were okay, but then the film ends up ruined by the CIA testing subplot.… Expand

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Gaijin-Aug 5, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SHORT VERSION: Unexpectedly low budget, bad choreography and nonsensical writing make this movie not worth watching. Not even for free. Avoid.

LONG VERSION (may contain some spoilers):

When I watched the trailer I knew this was going to be a story about how evil men are and how righteous it is for a woman to beat them up. It's a fashion trend that's not going away any time soon, so I accepted it. However, I thought that, at least, this could be an entertaining popcorn action movie with good production value: it's got Amazon's money and a good cast... right? Nope.

The whole movie is shot in a set that tries to reproduce an intersection with two or three blocks in each direction, plus a number of indoors locations (most of them one-room, empty). There are no gun fight scenes. The two or three hand to hand combat scenes that are there, are terribly choreographed and shot, with close shots and continuous changes in camera angles to hide what's really happening.

Then there's the writing. The premise of the movie is how the condition that afflicts the main character shapes her life... but you get all her background in a narration dump in the first five minutes. The movie then proceeds to show you her daily life and, for those 15 minutes, you kind of get to sympathize with the character (any sympathy you could have for her vanishes when later in the movie she uses a baby as a human shield, but anyway...). But then we move into the "revenge story" which takes most of the movie. Here's where the writing goes out the window, especially with the main character saying a one-liner after the other, all of them taken from bad comedies from the nineties that do not make any sense. It felt like the writer (whose only credit on IMDB is this film) tried to convey the notion that the main character copes with her condition through humor, but failed miserably at it.

Looking at the few prior credits of the director, it looks like she wanted to make a movie about a girl with a condition trying to have a normal life in a world filled with evil and / or stupid men; but she had to comply with Amazon's mandate to make an action flick, with the additional restriction that most of the budget went into hiring Kate Beckinsale.

Avoid this flick at all costs. Not worth your time; not even for free.… Expand

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