Someone once told me that the worst part of any Ryan Reynolds movie is Ryan Reynolds. After watching Mayday, I’m starting to think they might have a point.
Since The Proposal in 2009, Reynolds has increasingly settled into a very specific screen persona: the fast-talking, sarcastic, self-aware guy who always seems to know he’s in a movie. Whether he’s playing a superhero, a hitman, a video game character or, now, a pilot caught up in an international conspiracy, the performance rarely changes all that much. You start to wonder where the character ends and the actor begins. At least Mayday has Kenneth Branagh.
Written and Directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Mayday follows Lieutenant Troy Brennan who embarks on a top secret surveillance mission over Soviet airspace, but things quickly go sideways when he’s forced to eject from his plane over the Russian wilderness. Rescued by a mysterious Russian local, the two form an unlikely bond as they discover just how much they have in common despite their differences.
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