RIM OF THE WORLD

2019 | DIR: MCG | STARRING: JACK GORE, MIYA CECH, BENJAMIN FLORES JR, ALESSIO SCALZOTTO | REVIEW BY GLENN COCHRANE.

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Does the name McG sound familiar? His real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol and he was once one of the hottest up-and-coming directors in Hollywood. He burst onto the scene with Charlie’s Angels and found himself in the company of others such as Bryan Singer, JJ Abrams and Guy Ritchie – amongst others – as a candidate for greatness. Sadly, with a string of poorly received films like Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle, Terminator Salvation and We Are Marshall, he wasn’t able to rise to his potential. With that in mind, he never went away and continued making films as a producer, occasionally stepping back behind the wheel for movies like This Means War and 3 Days to Kill.​

And then out of the blue he handed us 2018 Netflix film The Babysitter, a fantastic comedy horror for the teen crowd that showcased a keen eye for genre and an absolute return to form (you can find our review of that one HERE). It was a fabulous exercise in macabre horror and suggested that Mr. McG was back in the game. Which brings us to Rim of the World, a peculiar sci-fi action adventure that hits the right notes, and then hits the wrong notes, and then the right… then the wrong, and… D’oh!

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