We can’t imagine that there were too many people wailing and gnashing their teeth over the delays that hit Patrick Hughes’ The Man From Toronto over the last few years — in fact, if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance this be the first you’ve heard about the movie, which is a buddy comedy about Kevin Hart and Woody Harrelson facing off after a misunderstanding sets them against one another. This was supposed to come out a few years ago, but given all the chaos, Sony decided to dump this motherfucker on to Netflix for you to sleep through after nodding off from that awesome Sunday dinner you cooked. The streamer dropped a trailer for the film earlier on Wednesday, and it looks how you’d expect it to look.
Take a look:
Here’s your one-sentence Netflix synopsis, which we imagine is causing some over (or under) paid copywriter at Sony some amount of grief. You spend all that time crafting the perfect way to sell a mistaken-identity buddy comedy in a way that makes people feel like they haven’t seen it before and/or actually want to plunk down some cash money to check it out, and then your parent company makes a deal with a streamer and all that hard work is reduced down to:
“A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world’s deadliest assassin — known only as The Man from Toronto — run into each other at a holiday rental.”
You can practically hear the cubicle being smashed all the way over here. It’s an art, goddamn it!
Anyway, The Man From Toronto will hit Netflix on June 24, which is what we imagined would probably be how most people would watch it. But, importantly, now that Top Gun, Morbius, No Time to Die, and this are all in the bag, the 2020 Summer Movie Season might finally be coming to an end. What a brave new world we’re in.