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‘We Are Storror’ Review: In Michael Bay’s Hands, the Parkour Team Comes Off Looking Like Real-World Action Heroes
Those with a fear of heights may want to avoid the 'Transformers' director's portrait of the gravity-defying athletes, though all others should appreciate a character-based Michael Bay movie.
Since Storror’s greatest stunts are easily watched online, the hook here is to give audiences a behind-the-scenes look at four ambitious new challenges: dashing down the zig-zag stairs of Portugal’s Varossa Dam, turning an abandoned Bulgarian holiday resort (the Costa Del Croco) into their personal jungle gym, scaling balconies and sprinting across roofs in Malta, before wrapping things up in a giant sand quarry back home in England. He actually spends more time character-building here than he did in “6 Underground,” including endearing moments of relatability, like the one where Josh relocates to the living room of his apartment, since his Abyssinian cat’s claimed the bedroom, or a sequence involving Sacha (who went to a top film school to improve his Storror videos) in hospital during the pandemic, recovering not from COVID but a gnarly leg injury. The bar is high on such movies, as seen in last year’s “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” which grew out of the DIY skate videos of the 1980s and have evolved into a kind of self-sustaining career option for those undaunted by the fact that audiences want to see ever-riskier stunts.
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