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By Robert Scucci
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Want to know what it’s like to be a liner? Well, the most superficial primer you can find is streaming on a tubi right now, and it is called Life on the line. Installed in Texas, and includes John Travolta using his best southern accent (read: not that great), Life on the lineWhich seems to be based on true events, looking at the rough tumblers that put their… lives on the line.
Unfortunately, the double entender of the title is probably the clever thing about this film that is enlarged with unwanted B-plots, and packed with every disaster film trope that you could push into 97 minutes.
The main story
Life on the line First introduces us to Beau Ginner (John Travolta), Old School, Badass Liner at the books with a gold heart working one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Disturbed by a past tragedy on the job site that killed his brother Danny (Olsson House) 15 years earlier, and the car accident that Danny Maggie’s wife had while driving to hospital, Beau remained not only with the profession, but also looking after their daughter, Bailey (Kate Bosworth), who was left without parents.
Having to make a huge backpack from the entire power grid in very little time before the storm season in Life on the lineBeau and his crew race the clock to ensure that safety standards are met at the highest level as they venture their lives while working under tremendous pressure.
The side stories
If Life on the line Having told a simple story about blue collar workers working through a task that seems impossible and dangerous, it would be a solid film because it would be able to explore all the colorful personalities behind the life -raising profession, but instead we get too many B plots that they leave nowhere to develop a meaningful character.
The first, and arguably the most important B plot is Life on the line include Devon SawDucan, Bailey’s ex-boyfriend is undertaking the profession after learning that she is leaving for college. Bailey has other plans, as she reveals to Duncan that she is pregnant with her child, who is upsetting to Beau who wants to see her become more than a liner wife. Naturally this causes a conflict between Duncan and Beau, which often goes into a small spit on the work site over this developing family dynamics.
The two beats above are all that Life on the line Needs, but two other side stories are presented that certainly make the world seem a little more in the film, but which are completely unnecessary.
First, we have Ron (Matt Bellefleur), another of Bailey’s former lovers, who shows affection by intimidating his love interest. Secondly, we are introduced to the new couple moving in across the street from Beau and Bailey, Carline (Julie Benz) and Eugene (Ryan Robbins), the last of whom was a former traumatized warfare who started working for the power company. Bailey befriends Carline, who obviously sleeps around when Eugene is at work because the war has “changed him,” which often causes running in with Ron whenever they go out.
Less plotting, more jobs
One aspect of Beau’s character I would really like to see we see more of Life on the line is a difficult-but-fair attitude, and how his over-definitive behavior towards Bailey is contrary to this attitude in her relationship with Duncan. Several conversations with his crew reveal that he is a complete badass, but we never see anything that is experiencing that point. After a hard day’s work, when everyone goes out for a round of drinks, the best thing we get is that Beau diffuses fighting with a stubborn sponsor at the bar, which ends as fast as it began when Beau says that option A means shaking a hand and moving on with their lives, and that the stubborn sponsor does not want to know what B.
The opposing relationship of Beau and Duncan over the future of Bailey is the real conflict in Life on the lineAnd all other plots are forced to end in the third act so that these relationships can pay off, which they do not because the story board has to go to a very specific place that now depends on a decision to these side stories.
Streaming life on the line
While i admire the intention behind Life on the line Because it is supposed to glorify one of the country Rotten tomatoes Perfectly summed up with, “The is one of the ‘true events -based’ films that gives you the obvious feeling that the real events deserve better.”
What could have been a heartbreaking and heartbreaking story about a blue -collar man trying to make up from his family found playing out as a swollen mess of supporting characters who do not drive the story until the screenshot forces them. To give credit where it is due, the actual catastrophic sequences are shocking to look at when you consider Life on the line An estimated $ 12 million budget, but they are too little and far to be effective given how much unnecessary demonstration is required to tell its story.
From this writing you can stream Life on the line Free on a tubi.
