6 Underground

— If you can make it through the first 15 interminable minutes of car chase, and then a bit of back and forth in time to introduce the idea, it becomes a perfectly mediocre action film. The story is okay, with Ryan Reynolds displaying his signature sarcastic cuteness. There’s a little gratuitous blood-letting every half hour or so, in case you’ve grown immune to the frenzied, Michael Bay pace and, in the end, a group of antisocial, self-appointed agents succeeds is staging the overthrow of a government while getting in touch with their softer selves. Sigh. There are plenty of spy films that do a much better job than this tired one. [Netflix streaming.]

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[2019. 127 min. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona, and Dave Franco.]
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