Everyone remembers the American television series Lifeguards Malibu, where handsome young men and women patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County. Even the Guinness Book of Records cited the series as the most watched television show of all time (1.1 billion viewers). In 2017, a film of the same name was released. The premiere took place in Russia on June 1, 2017.
Rescuers Malibu is a film directed by Seth Gordon about a group of beach rescuers who work on the Pacific coast, discover that an oil company is planning to destroy the coast as its business grows.
Cast
The film focuses on such famous actors as Dwayne Johnson, an American wrestler and film actor, also known under the pseudonym The Rock. The most famous works: Fast and Furious, Hercules, The King of Scorpions, etc.
Zac Efron is the favorite of the female half of the population. He gained fame after his roles as the main character in the films "High School Musical", "The Double Life of Charlie Sun Cloud", "Lucky", "This Awkward Moment", "128 Heart Beats Per Minute", "Dad is 17 Again" and others.
Alexandra Daddario is an American actress who played the role of Annabeth Chase in the adaptation of the Percy Jackson novels. In Rescuers Malibu, she appeared as Summer Quinn.
Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress, model and singer. Winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant. She played the role of Victoria Leeds, a wealthy lady and owner of the Huntley Club.
Plot
The action begins in Florida (Emerald Bay), where Lieutenant Mitch Buchannont (Dwayne Johnson) and his rescue team protect the beaches. They are an elite unit called the Malibu Rescuers. The goodie Mitch saved more than 500 people while guarding the beaches, which is why his authority is unconditional. Vacationers love him, but there is always someone who does not like the well-deserved status of a prominent person. Local police officer Garner Ellerby disliked Mitch, and also his boss, Captain Thorpe.
It's time for Mitch's next morning patrol. Walking calmly along the beach, he notices a small bag of drugs, which is carried by the waves near the Huntley Club, owned by businesswoman Victoria Leeds. Naturally, the rescuer became interested in what had happened.
Trials begin to recruit a recruitment of new rescuers, where three people stand out vividly: surfer Summer Quinn (Alexandra Daddario), Mitch's old friend Holden, computer nerd Ronnie and Matt Brody (Zac Efron). Matt is a former Olympic champion with two gold medals. But due to one unpleasant incident, he dropped in the ranking to the very last lines and was sent to Emerald Bay for corrective public works. He got drunk before the competition and vomited right in the pool. Naturally, the jury perceived this situation as complete disrespect for the event.
The tests continue: Quinn and Ronnie pass them, but Brody refuses to participate and insists that he has the right to a place in the team without tests, since the status of the Olympic champion confirms his abilities. He rescues a drowning woman and her son, demonstrating his skills. Mitch does not like Brody's behavior, he believes that he is not suitable for teamwork. But for the image of the team, according to Thorpe, the Olympic champion should be left for the city council to change the decision to cut funding for the Malibu Rescuers.
Next, Mitch begins to train Brody, who gradually acquires teamwork skills. Soon the yacht catches fire, rescuers go to the rescue. Brody refuses to obey Mitch's orders and tries to resolve the situation on his own. As a result, he almost drowns, Summer pulls him out of the water. The yacht's passengers were rescued, but one of them did not manage to get out alive. It was a city council official. Mitch decides to investigate with his own hand, but Ellerby interferes with him, saying that this is the work of the police. Brody decides to support Ellerby, and in the end the whole team stands up against him, supporting the leader Mitch.
Leeds is throwing a party soon after. Brody gets drunk again, although he has to watch for safety. Mitch decides to teach him a lesson and humiliates him in front of the whole crowd. In the morning, Brody is trying to rethink what he has done, in the morning he goes to Mitch and apologizes for his act, and also asks for a second chance to prove his professionalism. Mitch does not refuse him and even calls for the next "special" operation. They make their way to the morgue, where they see that two Leeds bodyguards are replacing the pathologist's report with a fake one in order to cover up traces of the drug crime. Summer records it on his phone, but, naturally, they are discovered and one of the bodyguards breaks the gadget.
The team made sure Leeds was drug-related. Mitch and Brody sneak into the club's kitchen undercover. As a result, they see how the workers get drugs from barrels of fish.
But at this time a misfortune happened: the body of a man with the tracks of a shark is thrown onto the beach. Thorpe, inflamed, fires Mitch after leaving office. Brody is appointed as the new lieutenant. Reluctantly, Brody agrees. Mitch starts working in a cell phone shop.
Soon Brody finds drugs on the beach again and decides to steal the report on the second victim from Ellerby and hands it over to Quinn. Ronnie helps hack Leeds' servers. How fortunate that the team found its own programmer. It turns out that Leeds wanted to privatize the entire beach: it systematically bought or destroyed every rival land owner.
Private party time Leeds. The team infiltrates her and at the bottom of the yacht they find a box of drugs. Brody is being caught. Leeds, like all typical villains, says that she bribed Thorpe to fire Mitch. To put a less experienced rescuer who would not get involved in these matters. Then the Brody cage is thrown into the water. The end? But what about the hope of salvation? And then Mitch appears and pulls him out.
Ronnie and Parker use fireworks to distract people, Brody and Mitch catch up with Leeds on their way to her helicopter. Mitch decides to raise his adrenaline levels and deliberately injects himself with a sea urchin. Shoots Leeds with fireworks and rescues Brody again.
Ellerby arrives and arrests Thorpe and Leeds' henchmen, apologizing to Mitch.
Ronnie and Brody begin a relationship with Parker and Summer. Mitch is reinstated and also officially recruits Ronnie, Summer and Brody into the Malibu Rescue Squad. Then the well-known Pamela Anderson appears - the new head of the team.
Fees
- According to Kinopoisk, the film grossed $ 177,856,751 worldwide with a rating of 7.4. In the United States and Canada, $ 58.1 million. The budget is $ 69 million. Duration 2 hours.
- As a result, the film came in third place on its first weekend after Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Spectators also note its spectacularity.
- In May 2017, even before the release of the film, the producer published the news about the possibility of filming a sequel. How true this is is not yet known, but with such fees for the first part, the second is very likely. Although the income is likely to be much lower.
Testimonials
Reviews by film critics were negative, with an 18% rating based on 195 reviews with an average 4 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes. On CinemaScore, viewers rated the film a B +, on a scale from A + to F.
The film was considered easy to watch with friends; it is hardly suitable for family time. But at the same time, it was not without the negative. Many considered the film a second-rate comedy with a simple plot. Vivid pictures and loud music saturate the footage, but the pretentious viewer will always find something to complain about. It was noted that the most interesting part of the film is the first, because it was imbued with the philosophy of saving people, nuances and rules. Zac Efron, playing the role of a novice rescuer, will clearly appeal to women. Under the mentorship of Dwayne Johnson, Zach studied and developed. Viewers noted that they would like to see it until the end of the film.
