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Actor: Dave Bautista

Dave Bautista was a professional wrestler as Batista before Guardians of the Galaxy gave him Drax, whose complete literalism is the best running joke in those films.

He has been unusually deliberate about moving into dramatic work, taking Blade Runner 2049, Knock at the Cabin and Glass Onion.

Blade Runner 2049 opens with him, in a scene of considerable stillness, and he has said he took smaller serious roles specifically to avoid the action typecasting his background invited.

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Glass Onion (2022) Review

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review

Kurt Russell's Ego, Yondu's affecting sacrifice, comedy density exceeding the original's balance, family themes as load-bearing foundation. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a sequel that maintained the original's tonal commitment with diminishing returns and that increased the comedic density…

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