Plus, halfway through, she gets taken by some really bad people and it just ups the anxiety. Naturally, Paul is the antihero here and has no intention of hurting her, but that fact is never convincingly explained to Abe. Abe is rightfully panicked the entire time because he's scared out of his mind that he's going to lose his wife and his unborn son. Play It's also hard to have fun and let go while watching any of this because kidnapping (and knocking around) a pregnant woman, who starts to go into labor, is a really intense thing that grievously grates up against any attempt to unleash a loosey-goosey vibe. Abe and Paul's volleys never transcend past "Shut the f*** up!"/"No, you shut the f*** up!" Overall, its greatest sin is that it's just plain underwhelming, but mixed into all this is a meager attempt to create an Odd Couple buddy movie that hearkens back to '80s flicks - complete with sans context song cues for action scenes, like Oran "Juice" Jones' "The Rain," Grandmaster's Flash's "The Message", and an extremely bizarre prompt for ABC's "The Look of Love." Normally, these would create a humorous-slash-ironic juxtaposition, but there's absolutely no comedy present here aside from these songs. Paul's semi-hapless brother, Mateo (Christian Cooke), kidnaps Abe's "ready to pop" pregnant wife (Dear White People's Teyonah Parris), and forces Abe to help a very injured Paul escape the hospital and.we're off to the races. Paul is both shot and hit by an oncoming car while being framed for the murder of a beloved D.A., winding up in Abe's hospital. Mackie plays the "everyman" nurse role here, Abe, roped into a violent tussle between Frank Grillo's crook, Paul, and a sneering sect of dirty cops.
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