Review: 'Devotion' Spotlights Jonathan Majors As A Korean War Pilot
© Eli Ade/Sony Pictures/TNS Jonathan Majors (left) and Glenn Powell in celebration.If your attitude towards movies is "they don't make it like they used to", then Honesty is for you.
This real-life drama, set in the Korean War, shows Gary Cooper's bravery in battle. Jonathan Majors plays Ensign Jesse Brown, who breaks racial barriers among Navy pilots in the 1950s. Glenn Powell, in his second role this year (after Top Gun: Maverick), plays Tom Hudner's fellow pilot who serves with him and his only friend.
Majors ("The Last Black Men in San Francisco," "Lovecraft Land") has been on the cusp of growth for several years now, and Annihilation may be the film he finally makes.
His brown, sick, calm and soulful person, his self-confidence is a very convincing facade. He expressed his doubts and anger only when he was alone, when he looked in the bathroom mirror and uttered the ugliest words to say to the black man who set the scene. The scene might have been too powerful in the hands of another actor, but Major's complex performance is powerful because it doesn't just appeal to theatrics.
There are some interesting flight scenes - with pirates and jaguars in the air - and we're told enough about the war to know the stakes. But the film is more about Brown's dizzying but real affairs overseas (Elizabeth Taylor is real-life) and his long-distance romance with his wife and child in Rhode Island (Christina Jackson is a force to be reckoned with). as Jesse's fiery wife Daisy).
Loving you is what boring ordinary headlines call it. Loyalty to the state is different. But the true meaning of "hasr" becomes clear only when the film ends and the towel is removed.
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Loyalty
3.5 stars (out of 4)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for profanity, some war/violence and smoking)
Running time: 2:18
As seen: In theaters Wednesday
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