We do get a montage in the Samaritan trailer of Sylvester Stallone in his character’s heyday — including a shot of the suit he wore when he was a crimefighting superhero.
There’s a bit of John Wick-style to the carnage as we see Stallone resume his Samaritan ways to protect and rescue Sam.
But the action, while brutal, has a grace and finesse to it thanks to some intriguing camerawork from director Julius Avery (the Nazi zombie movie Overlord, and 2014’s Son of a Gun).
But the bulk of the action in the trailer is confined to modern-day Stallone, looking every bit of his 75 years and yet, still able to dole out ass whippings left and right.