In this punishing action-thriller starring Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2), a former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader (Jean Reno, Léon: The Professional) - while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.... (Full plot summary below)
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In this punishing action-thriller starring Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2), a former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader (Jean Reno, Léon: The Professional) - while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.
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| SlashfilmKalyn CorriganThe greatest mistake the devil ever made was underestimating a woman with a gun, and director Kitamura has come to collect. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsThe bad guy likes opera in the mostly forgettable heist/hostage thriller The Doorman, a movie that’s well-versed in clichés and basically watchable, but never really good. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA Die Hard ripoff that forgets most of the lessons that action classic has to teach, Ryuhei Kitamura's The Doorman forgets first of all what a little bit — even a shred — of wit can do for a movie that otherwise relies on bullets and brawn. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe script is a clumsy patchwork of gimmicks — history professor Jon playing mind-games with his captors — obvious bits of foreshadowing and Wikipedia-shallow discourses on Rachmaninoff and Goya, all designed to fill the minutes between Ruby Rose throw-downs. |
| User ReviewHealingToolboxAn easy film for critics to unleash their frustrations on. I think here again negative pro reviews reveal how Cancel Culture is infiltrating even film criticism. "Burn it down!" critiques and a boot in the face doe not encourage creators to make better movies. Let's start afresh. What was the likely pitch of this movie when it was green-lit? Evidence strongly suggests the pitch was re-make Luc Besson's Transporter with a a female lead. The title, look and feel of The Doorman is Transporter 1 start to finish, even more than Die Hard. The pitch was to make a Luc Besson film without Luc. The good news? The film is watchable as Transporter-lite, enuf resonance and originality to make it to the end. The bad news? The writers-director failed to learn the lessons of Atomic Blonde (2017) and the excellent AVA (2020) with Jessica Chastain which is approximately Atomic Blonde 1.5. What did these films teach creators paying attention? Their big lesson is you can't simply replace Jason Stratham with a female and make a gender-updated Transporter. You need motivations which arise out of the feminine, not from masculine tropes. As written The Doorman is a script for a MALE LEAD. If you like Luc Besson action films, you will find The Doorman watchable. |
| User ReviewIamcritical86I'm sure this movie was just done for the sake of "Hollywood entertainment." There's one too many scenes that simply cannot be taken too seriously. Definitely a few "OH, yeah right!!" moments, but it wasn't THAT bad. I think there could've been some improvements in the writing, and some of the acting was BRUTAL at best, but overall it was okay for what it was. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001Ruby Rose can't act. I think producers should start noticing that. And it's not like much is demanded of her considering the quality of this film, but that already says a lot about her work. |
