![]() She tells him that her new husband, Frank (Jason Clarke), abuses her-and also abuses her and John’s son, Patrick (Raphael Sayegh)-and she tells John of her plan to bring Frank to the island and to the boat so that John can kill him. ![]() Then he’s visited by his ex-wife, Karen (Anne Hathaway), who shows up dripping with money. He’s cantankerous with the arrogant businessmen who are his clients he’s in a pugnacious, no-strings-attached relationship with a woman named Constance (Diane Lane) and a pugnacious friendship with his mate, Duke (Djimon Hounsou) he’s in obsessive pursuit of a huge tuna that he’s spotted in the waters. It turns out that he’s actually an Iraq War veteran named John Mason, living under a pseudonym. ![]() But the clichés of “Serenity” are jolted by a big and strange twist that attempts to impose purpose and logic on those recyclings.The action is almost entirely set on (and in the waters of) Plymouth Island, an isolated tropical outpost, where Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey), the hard-drinking captain of a small fishing yacht named Serenity, lives in gruff isolation in a converted shipping container at the tip of a lonesome strand. For the most part, it’s a bland reprocessing of neo-noir tropes, vaguely borrowing its tone and theme from “Body Heat” and other films that are themselves reprocessings of earlier Hollywood motifs. There’s almost nothing of consequence to discuss in “ Serenity” that isn’t a spoiler, but there’s almost nothing in it that’s not spoiled in advance (except for the calculated earnestness of some plot points).
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