Defendor Hollywood Action Fantasy Movie 2010
Cast And Crew
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings,
Sandra Oh, Michael Kelly, Elias Koteas
Director: Peter Stebbings
Screenwriter: Peter Stebbings
Writer: Peter Stebbings
Studio: Sony Pictures Darius Films
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Release Date: February 26, 2010
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Distributor: Sony Pictures Darius
Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
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Defendor English Hollywood Film.The film Directed by Peter Stebbings.
Plot Summary:
Every night, Arthur Poppington (Harrelson) becomes Defendor, a superhero looking to rid his city of drugs, weapons, and the crime lord known as Captain Industry. With a new ally, teenage prostitute Katerina (Dennings), Defendor infiltrates the criminal underworld, steps away from a showdown with Captain Industry.Defendor English Hollywood Film.The film Directed by Peter Stebbings.
Defendor English Film Synopsis :A superhero dramedy centered around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he's a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager he befriends.A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Defendor Hollywood Movie Review :
Given the recent onslaught of superhero films hitting theatres, it would seem only natural to anticipate parodic responses to the genre, sending up its excesses and sillier elements. On the surface, it would appear that debut director Peter Stebbings' Defendor is exactly such a film, casting Woody Harrelson's oddball everyman as a surrogate crimefighter and exploiting his antics for humour in the vein of 1999's Mystery Men. And initially this is the approach the film itself appears gearing up to take, opening with a hysterical spoofing of overblown superhero film clichés, including rooftop billowing fog, high contrast city lights against nighttime darkness, and larger than life acrobatic feats ("always check the garbage days" moans a wounded Defendor after leaping off a rooftop into a dumpster recently emptied of garbage to cushion his fall). Such astute genre awareness combined with the wonderfully imaginative collection of Defendor's makeshift crimefighting weapons (including the most inspired use of marbles seen in ages) could easily have assured for an hour and a half of lighthearted, enjoyable cinematic fun.
But Stebbings' film has grander ambitions than a mere surface level parody, which subtly unfold as the film progresses. As the laughs slowly become fewer and fewer, Defendor's narrative becomes steadily more engrossing, settling on a tone pitched halfway between exhilarating crime/mystery thriller and poignant character study, as the viewer is led increasingly to question Defendor's mental stability, and even the ethics of his imbalanced war against injustice. While such transitioning between tones could prove a dangerous stumbling ground, Stebbings is careful to distinguish between his darker themes and moments of levity, utilizing dashes of all too real violence to savagely undercut the fantasy or parodic elements. For all Defendor's silliness, it certainly packs a brutal punch when necessary.
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