they don’t seem to have learned
too many lessons. Andy has grown
weary because she feels the world
is getting worse, which is objectively
far from the case, and it’s
hard to believe someone who
lived through the Roman Empire,
the Crusades and the Holocaust
hasn’t seen any progress. 2020
might be worse than 2019, but
this is like denying global warming
because last summer was hotter
than this year. Why does Andy
adopt a whack-a-mole approach
to tackling relatively minor incidents
as they arise, rather than
looking at the big picture? Why
not use her centuries of acquired
wisdom to affect change through
politics, like a reverse Damien
from The Omen, or through science
and medicine, like an amped
up immortal riff on Rock Hudson’s
playboy turned surgeon in
Sirk’s Magnificent Obsession?
Well, the answer is that this is an
action movie, and the audience
demands brawling and shooting
over debating and studying. That’s
all fine, but the movie never inte-
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