6 Underground
So seeing the shit get kicked out of it on here, I finally got round to watching it this evening. Yeah it's typical Michael Bay fare. It's arty, it's pretentious, it's gratuitous, it's brash, it's loud, it's too long, it's incoherent....but I kind of enjoyed it. That being said, the film is riddled with flaws, continuity gaffes and ropey editing. Basically, it's a modern day A-Team movie with a smacking of the Fast and Furious franchise thrown in. Ryan Reynolds leads an elite group of mercenary vigilantes who dedicate their lives to taking out the real bad guys creating havoc in the world. We never know their names as they are simply referred to as 1, 2, 3 etc., but you don't really care for them anyway. They're just vehicles for the film.
Michael Bay uses his trademark cinematographic style, rapid cuts, slow-motion shots and grandiose set pieces to leave his dirty fingerprints all over this film. Netflix or whoever commissioned the film gave him £150m to put this overblown fiasco together. Don't get me wrong though, it did have some redeeming qualities but surely that money could have been better utilised elsewhere. The locations were great. The action sequences were very impressive and realistic....and Melanie Laurent was smoking in this.
I was also half expecting Optimus Prime or Bumblebee to make an appearance because this film just had that vibe and to be honest if they replaced the actors with Autobots and Decepticons, this would have made one serious Transformers movie. Still, someone needs to have a word with Bay. Too much of the same is not necessarily a good thing. I did manage to get through it though and was more entertained than underwhelmed. It's not the worst thing I've seen this year.
I'm giving this a 6/10.
