The trailer to 6 Underground portrays it as a slick, highly skilled heist-style movie with all the explosions that you would expect from a Michael Bay movie. But unfortunately, it feels like the entire movie is one extra long trailer, cutting and jumping from one time frame to another until you’re all caught up but with no sense of what details from the backstory were actually important.
As you would expect from Ryan Reynolds, there are some humorous moments, but they are often misplaced and, once again, feel like they are put there solely to be cut into a soundbite for a trailer. The action concepts and camera work have merit for originality (take that as you will), and scale, but the classically sexist shots of women and pointless sex scenes along with the graphic violence has made it a swing and a miss for being anything more than another band-of-outcasts-grouping-together-to-take-down-bad-guys-action-movie.
It was better cinematically than Reynolds’ previous action comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard but a followable plot was sacrificed for style and it would have been much more impressive if it was married with a simpler, more convincing storyline and characters. If you enjoyed the violence of his anti-superhero movie Deadpool, then you will enjoy 6 Underground just fine because it definitely show how dirty and disgusting trying to change political systems in the world can be, but overall, there is nothing special about this Netflix Original.
‘6 Underground’ is available to stream on Netflix.
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