Some really cool ideas about immortality and the imprisoning immortals but in the end settles for a generic action thriller. Charlize Theron is so damn good in here and the rest of the cast does fine but no one stands out. Ejiofor's character is completely wasted here, hopefully given the sequel setup he might have a bigger role to play. There are lots of themes that are highlighted but then abandoned abruptly. The action scenes and choreography are great here. Decent but could have been better with a bit more focus.

Yeah its alright, but I expected way more to be honest. If Charlize wasn't so good in this and badass it definitely would have been even less memorable than it already is. The action sequences are good, but I can't even call them all that impressive when I've seen far better action in films like Atomic Blonde or Extraction. The weakest parts of this movie are by far the villains though with Chiwetel just being on autopilot the whole time and Dudley Dursley being one of the least intimidating boss villains ever lol. I will say though that outside of the action the character development was pretty solid in this movie too and those scenes were probably the strongest, especially when they involved Theron, Schoenaerts or Layne.

B-

This was a lot of fun. It was brilliantly directed and the action was badass. B+

Hey guys I have an idea. What if, instead of the X-Men, we just had an entire team of Wolverines. And not just his powers, but his personality too. Everyone is exactly the same. And oh, even though they're immortal, they can die, but only when we feel like it. Then we're gonna shoot and write the film in a way that a tortured immortal would, completely lifeless and without any effort to make it otherwise, because why care about anything when existence is meaningless anyways?

F

I can understand that you didn't like it but its hardly an F material movie. Charlize Theron's turn alone should be enough to bump it to D (or even C) grade.

It’d be fine if everyone else in the movie wasn’t playing the same character as her. This was about as boring and ugly as movies get for me.

What’s extra weird is that I usually like Netflix’s action movies, even the ones that get really poor reviews like The Cloverfield Paradox. This one was obviously not made with my algorithm.

I had the same feeling with Extraction, just could not connect to it.

I thought it was unfortunately pretty bad and basically side with Flava on it; the film has just no heart and I usually welcome serious action but this isn't good at it. It could have lightened up a bit and then it probably would have been easier to enjoy, it makes a few attempts at humor, but they just fall flat. I like Theron and relative newcomer Kiki Layne along with the rest of the cast is fine I guess, but they all share no chemistry and the relationship and tension between the characters feels forced. It's primarily just the script that drags everything down. The action itself is not bad, but it's like the most recent Godzilla and Transformers films where just on that alone a film can't stand and the sequences of the story and the motivations of the characters either feels dumb or doesn't make sense. The concept seems fun and should've been able to allow for something more entertaining, but this is a misfire for me.

D+