Movie: The Baker (2022) Caution Spoiler Alert

 The Baker

Came out; 2022

Time; 1 hours 44 minutes

Watched: Amazon

Rated: R for violence, language and some drug use

IMDB Rating; 6.2/10

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring.

Ron Perlman as Pappi

Elias Koteas as Vic

Harvey Keitel as Merchant

Joel David Moore as Peter

Emma Ho as Delphi

Story Line.

"The Baker" centers on a quiet, solitary man whose estranged son suddenly comes back into his life with a granddaughter he never knew existed. When his son disappears on a shady business opportunity, the baker must do everything he can to find his son and protect his granddaughter from the mob hitmen sent to find her.

Thoughts:

This had a good plot, it started strong but the whole middle was pretty boring. The acting was fine, and the action was fun, but the dialog and the slowness of this movie was too much! So many plot holes, like who is The Baker, what did he do in his former life, how does he know the merchant? We find out why Peter (the son) is a widower or has his daughter Delphi without a mother, towards the end of the movie!

CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert

None listed so here's mine:

Peter (Joel David Moore) is a limo driver. At the airport he finds that his client is on a delayed flight. He goes with his car to a parking garage to take a nap. In the parking garage he witnesses an attack and killing of several people. He takes the bag one of them was trying to protect.

Peter then goes to his daughter Delphi's (Emma Ho) school and removes her from class. He tells her they are going to get out of the city. He then goes to his Fathers Bakery (Ron Perlman). Peter takes a phone call and then explains to his father he needs to leave.

Delphi gets upset and goes to the car where she finds the bag that Peter had taken from the parking garage. Queue to Peter back in the city, he walks into his apartment and encounters Vic (Elias Koteas). He tells him he can have it all back. Vic opens the bag and finds it full of clothing from Delphi. Peter calls Pappi from his phone and we hear gun shots.

Pappi decides to find out what happened to Peter, and this is when Delphi dumps out her bag and we find it's all bags of drugs. Pappi puts the drugs into a loaf of bread, and they load into the delivery truck and get going.

Eventually we find that Peter was murdered by Vic after Pappi takes Vic hostage and makes him take him to Peter's body. Unknown if he actually kills Vic or not.

The movie ends after Pappi goes to the Merchant and returns all the drugs. They appear to know each other.