Agreed. I just felt like it was lacking a bigger budget. It seemed like it was filmed in like a month and probably on sets in LA or New Mexico. But I still enjoyed it, especially the acting.

@OddRob said:

Agreed. I just felt like it was lacking a bigger budget. It seemed like it was filmed in like a month and probably on sets in LA or New Mexico. But I still enjoyed it, especially the acting.

It was filmed in Alicante, Spain.

@bratface said:

@OddRob said:

Agreed. I just felt like it was lacking a bigger budget. It seemed like it was filmed in like a month and probably on sets in LA or New Mexico. But I still enjoyed it, especially the acting.

It was filmed in Alicante, Spain.

Gotcha. Felt like it was Cali for sure.

@NeoLosman said:

@aholejones said:

It's been a terrible couple of years for new movies and after Guy Ritchie's previous stinker "Ruse de Guerre" I didn't exactly have high hopes, but "The Covenant" actually turned out to be a pretty solid movie and an easy watch and it's nice to see a director actually focusing on a story and a movie instead of trying to shoehorn in some kind of tacky virtue signaling.

Operation Fortune was fun flick, even if nothing classic. The poor reception really had less to do with the quality of the film itself, and more to do with poor marketing + the fact that it's the sort of quickly churned out comicaper that was frequently found in multiplexes during the 2000s and early 10s. It's going to take a minute for audiences to recalibrate, and become accustomed to seeing stories which aren't centered around superheroes, space wizards, and Jurassic Parks, and instead follow the adventures and travails of flesh and blood humans. Same thing happened after The 80s came to an end. It took a minute for filmgoers to adjust to flicks that weren't tentpole and franchise flicks, and as the decade went on =, we got an era that brought us movies like Seven, Pulp Fiction, and the early work of Van Sant, Korine, and Kevin Smith

With the exception of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal's flicks have never been worth watching, unless they featured him rolling around with a naked Anne Hathaway

Bubble Boy was pretty entertaining.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9683-bubble-boy

@NeoLosman said:

@aholejones said:

It's been a terrible couple of years for new movies and after Guy Ritchie's previous stinker "Ruse de Guerre" I didn't exactly have high hopes, but "The Covenant" actually turned out to be a pretty solid movie and an easy watch and it's nice to see a director actually focusing on a story and a movie instead of trying to shoehorn in some kind of tacky virtue signaling.

Operation Fortune was fun flick, even if nothing classic. The poor reception really had less to do with the quality of the film itself, and more to do with poor marketing + the fact that it's the sort of quickly churned out comicaper that was frequently found in multiplexes during the 2000s and early 10s. It's going to take a minute for audiences to recalibrate, and become accustomed to seeing stories which aren't centered around superheroes, space wizards, and Jurassic Parks, and instead follow the adventures and travails of flesh and blood humans. Same thing happened after The 80s came to an end. It took a minute for filmgoers to adjust to flicks that weren't tentpole and franchise flicks, and as the decade went on =, we got an era that brought us movies like Seven, Pulp Fiction, and the early work of Van Sant, Korine, and Kevin Smith

With the exception of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal's flicks have never been worth watching, unless they featured him rolling around with a naked Anne Hathaway

You are over analyzing the issue with "Ruse de Guerre". While I imagine they could have marketed it more and better it wouldn't have changed the fact that it is a very mediocre and and rather dull dime a dozen movie most people probably won't ever want to see again after watching it one time. Also I would wager that the reason they didn't market it that much was probably because the comments they were getting from test screenings etc. were most likely not very good.

I felt "Covenant" either needed to be more of an "action film" or, preferably, more of a drama; it fell between the two stools.

@M.LeMarchand said:

I felt "Covenant" either needed to be more of an "action film" or, preferably, more of a drama; it fell between the two stools.

If you want something similar, but with more action "Kandahar" might be right up your alley, however I did think "The Covenant" was much better.

@aholejones said:

If you want something similar, but with more action "Kandahar" might be right up your alley, however I did think "The Covenant" was much better.

Cheers! May give it a go, though Gerard Butler isn't much of a guarantee of quality these days. I actually was expecting more "feels" in "Covenant" from the synopsis, but it was more of an action movie.

@NeoLosman said:

@bratface said:

@NeoLosman said:

@aholejones said:

It's been a terrible couple of years for new movies and after Guy Ritchie's previous stinker "Ruse de Guerre" I didn't exactly have high hopes, but "The Covenant" actually turned out to be a pretty solid movie and an easy watch and it's nice to see a director actually focusing on a story and a movie instead of trying to shoehorn in some kind of tacky virtue signaling.

Operation Fortune was fun flick, even if nothing classic. The poor reception really had less to do with the quality of the film itself, and more to do with poor marketing + the fact that it's the sort of quickly churned out comicaper that was frequently found in multiplexes during the 2000s and early 10s. It's going to take a minute for audiences to recalibrate, and become accustomed to seeing stories which aren't centered around superheroes, space wizards, and Jurassic Parks, and instead follow the adventures and travails of flesh and blood humans. Same thing happened after The 80s came to an end. It took a minute for filmgoers to adjust to flicks that weren't tentpole and franchise flicks, and as the decade went on =, we got an era that brought us movies like Seven, Pulp Fiction, and the early work of Van Sant, Korine, and Kevin Smith

With the exception of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal's flicks have never been worth watching, unless they featured him rolling around with a naked Anne Hathaway

Bubble Boy was pretty entertaining.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9683-bubble-boy

Wins demerits for casting Heather Graham lookalike Marley Shelton, yet having her remained clothed the entire film. This, despite the fact that she'd gone sky clad in a Hercules TV movie a year or two before BB's release

Well, as I'm a female & not a lesbian, I don't watch movies to see naked women & to be honest I don't watch to see completely naked men either.