Samaritan Review

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In the modern age of overwhelming superhero fatigue, an original story attempting to spin the same old tropes to tell a new story should be welcomed. Unfortunately, Samaritan wallows into an oversaturated market without anything new to say. It attempts to bring newfound levels of gritty grounded storytelling to the genre, but its lack of imagination and fun leaves it in worse shape than its protagonist.

Director Julius Avery, late of the fantastic horror/action film Overlord valiantly attempts to bring some personality to the production, to no avail. The story began life as a spec script that became a Mythos Comics series, both of which were crafted by screenwriter Bragi F. Schut.

A Super-Powered Sylvester Stallone Comes Out Of Retirement In First Samaritan Trailer

Samaritan establishes its backstory in the opening, which also happens to be the only visually interesting moment in the film. A pair of superhuman twins were born, their strength and apparent invulnerability inspiring terror in the hearts of their neighbors. Subsequently, the community burns their house to the ground with them inside. The twins are unscathed, but their parents perish in the flames. One twin decides to use his gifts to defend the innocent while the other swears vengeance against all mankind. The former takes the name Samaritan, while the latter selects the comically on-the-nose moniker Nemesis. Since no normal weapon can harm them, Nemesis forges a sledgehammer in his own blood to kill his brother. Their work comes to a climactic end in a duel that appears to leave both men dead.

25 years pass without a hero, and the dilapidated once-great metropolis of Granite City (Atlanta, as a few conspicuous MARTA stations reveal) falls to ruin. Enter Sam