Samaritan – Unasked for Movie Review – September 19, 2022

 

Today's unasked for movie review is for "Samaritan" starring Sylvester Stallone. This movie is pretty goofy, but I knew that going in, so I'm not mad about it. Erik*, however, is not amused.

*Erik is my husband, who I “forced” into watching this movie.

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