Agent Game

Agent Game. Horrible title I agree but you know what? I didn't hate it!

Now don't get me wrong, this straight to streaming (or maybe it'll show in theaters for a week, who knows) stars Mel Gibson and a bunch of other people who'll have you saying "hey! It's that guy/gal!". For example we have Katie Cassidy of The Arrow fame where she played Black Canary (or Canaries, I lost count) as Miller a CIA agent, Barkahad Abdi of the now meme-worthy "I am your Captain now" fame as Omar, a wrongfully detained Muslim man, with Adan Canto from The Cleaning Lady (by the way, this show is really good, you should definitely give it a go) and Jason Isaacs who's does a ton of great voice work but who I remember most recently as the charismatic Captain Lorca from Star Trek: Discovery, all make appearances here.

Surprisingly the actors involved are doing their best to make this paint by numbers espionage thriller work and I appreciated that as these types of movies are best for playing while doing your household chores and yet I found myself actually paying attention to the story! I'm not saying it's a great story but it does have enough going for it to make things engaging at times. There aren't many action sequences so if you're going in hoping for them you'll have to be satisfied with a handful here and there and a larger set piece at the conclusion and the film actually sets itself up with an open ended finale, so I'm guessing they have a sequel in mind. Call me crazy but I'm not mad at the idea.

In a world filled with mediocre straight-to-stream movies, Agent Game is a tad better than the rest. Not a lot better, but certainly not the worst by a long shot. Trust me, I'm just as surprised as you are.

If you like seeing an ending to your movie, then stay clear off this one. This felt like a very long first episode of a TV/Mini series, which needs a follow up episode to continue the storyline.

It started off great, then it fell into a very slow burn lull. If you can follow and get your head around the toing and froing of the various timelines, then the storyline might actually be interesting.

But with a non-ending, ending, and action too far and few in-between, for me it's a mediocre movie at best.

VERDICT: Watch only if nothing better is available.

The movie kinda drags you along as the dialogue and story-line seems to get weaker and weaker. One scene was a bit hard to believe and made us think the writer ran our of a legitimate course of action and just haphazardly wrote the scene in. Even still, the actors did a good job.

Hollywood seems to be falling into an abyss with good material and this is a good case of struggling to make a movie worth watching.

Not sure this movie will be a repeat for us...

Terrible film when you consider what Mel has done.

Essentially Mel filmed 3 scenes and these got cut across the film in between people firing guns and chucking hand grenades around.

Some nice artistic shots but in the round a terrible film.

My best advice is don't waste your life on this one.

I have never been so motivated to write a review to warn general audiences about how bad a movie was.

Horrible plot, writing, acting.

Worst I have seen in decades.