‘Boss Level’ is completely absurd, while also absolutely entertaining

Posted on March 26, 2021

By MARK VIOLA

Last week, I talked quite a bit about the eight Academy Award Best Picture nominees. Although I haven’t seen any of them yet, I’m sure they are filled with artistic filmmaking, meaningful stories and memorable characters.

“Boss Level” is not one of those movies. It is a ridiculous, borderline silly action flick about a man who wakes up every day to a group of oddball assassins trying to kill him. However, for him, every day is the same day, and every day ends with him dying, only to wake up and start over again.

Yes, this is another “Groundhog Day” movie, although it’s of a particular vein similar to “Edge of Tomorrow,” in which somebody keeps repeating the same day and uses the repetition to figure out the day’s patterns in order to not die (or at least not die as fast).

In that, “Boss Level” is very much like a video game, where your character keeps getting killed, so you load up your save point and try again. An early clue at how on the nose this movie is going to be, our main character, Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo, “Captain America: Winter Soldier”) mentions this exact comparison in the first few minutes during his narration.

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