"The Cure" is not only a fairly famous band, but also the name of this American English-language movie from 2020. This was uploaded on Youtube three months ago and, since then, has scored about half a million views. Not huge, but pretty good still. One reason may be its close connection to current events. well, "close" is maybe a bit exaggerated to be honest, but this 37-minute film is about a man out there to retrieve a mysterious cure and on the road to success, he is dealing with all kinds of heavily armed enemies, also some he did not really expect, namely the ones who gave him the order. But first things first: The director is Ahmet Atalay, so there is slight Turkish (I think) impact here, also at least one Turkish actor. It's not the first filmmaking effort for Atalay, but he is not really prolific either, has worked in all kinds of fields of film production nonetheless, just not on too many projects. The lead actor is Mashood Alam and he is also not extremely experienced either. He played in an Aladdin movie I saw, one that is not entirely unseen, but really only known for how bad it is apparently and his role there was extremely minor anyway, so you could call this film here his breakthrough somehow. Not that this one is really famous or anything, but it seems on the rise. sadly, I cannot really share the praise. It is definitely not bad or anything, but action has never been my favorite genre and this film is almost nothing else unfortunately, hich makes it difficult from my very own personal standpoint to see much in it. I would have liked more/better story. They actually showed that they have the talent for that. The story with his daughter suffering from the virus too is one that honestly felt rushed and not too creative how it was used here, but the final conversation or I should call it a monologue from the old influential fella talking to Noah (I wonder if the biblical reference in terms of him being the world's savior was intentional, probably to some extent at least) is definitely a highlight from this movie for me. There they showed that they could also come up with quality thriller elements, so such a shame that they did not really do so in the 30 minutes before that that mostly consisted of car crashes, explosions and gunfire. If you like that, go for it. Just don't expect much of a story. The best example is actually the female following Noah and they could have done so much more with her to be honest. In terms of her character I mean. She added virtually nothing to the story for me, even if the moment near the end when she almost dies on the street, was not too bad. The fact that she lived also indicates that she may return for a sequel. The ending is really iin a way that there is absolutely zero hesitation for me in saying they very much have a sequel in mind here and it is probably going to happen. This film here seems enough of a success if we take a look at view counts and ratings here on imdb too. Finally, even if I give the movie a thumbs-down and think only action fans should check it out, I must say it was pretty cool in a gimmicky funny way when that big/fat dude approximately in the middle of the movie gets out his automatic gun and starts firing. Kinda iconic even. That would be all then. A cautious negative recommendation here from my side.
