northernpaladin

I couldn't believe what I was watching. Flat, unexciting, uninteresting, no plot, dialled in acting, zero direction. What I couldn't get my head around was why some fairly decent actors, I mean Florence Pugh is no slouch, signed on for this, we're they really that desperate for the pay cheque? Also the sound dipped in and out alarmingly badly which alongside the crap CGI made for a distracting viewing experience. Obviously we have to have the obligatory girl boss, in fact two, and in the time honoured tradition, completely unbelievable. Is it meant to be a comedy, was it meant to be ironic? I have no idea, but please don't watch.

I didn't think Amazon could make anything worse than G20 but they have, I mean they really have! The plot line of two antagonistic heads of state, Elba and Cena, dropped (literally out of the sky) into hostile territory and a convoluted tech plot involving the end of NATO is utter nonsense and plays out so badly it's a cringe. Firstly it just doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, it's billed as a comedy but isn't funny but also has some pretty visceral violence (in a James Bond kind of a way) that doesn't sit well within the narrative. Which brings us to the narrative itself, at a basic level it makes no sense and has no continuity, just a series of set pieces which in themselves make no sense and as in so many of these types of film there is no consideration of the collateral damage that would have been caused to real people. Secondly, the cast; there is absolutely nothing going on between Cena and Elba which is a key requirement for a buddy movie, both are fairly adequate usually but here nothing, Cena can generally be quite charming but it's very thin here and Elba is just a grump. In the supporting roles Chopra Jonas repeats her role in Citadel only worse and her girl boss outshooting dozens of allegedly trained mercenaries and beating them to a pulp is ludicrous. Why Considine is in this crap I have no idea, the cheque I imagine because there is no other logical reason for him to be there. Direction? There isn't any. Any good AD could have done better. Awful. Even though it's free don't waste your time.