Review of 6 Underground (2019) by Jpritcha — 30 Dec 2019

An absurdly stupid, hyper-violent/gory, overly serious, overly long, pro-'Murica propaganda piece that tries to bill itself as a comedy because it stars Ryan Reynolds.

The 2 most glaringly bad parts of this movie are its plot and editing.

Plot:

The plot is not only bad, it's bad and doesn't know it's bad and doubles down on the seriousness of everything that makes it bad.

TL;DR.

Nobody:

Vigilantes: Let's overthrow a dictator and install his democracy loving brother to bring the poor brown people of this fictional middle eastern country freedom! This will work great and it's not like there's decades of historical precedent on this kind of thing that would say otherwise!

This motivation is supposed to get us through over 2 hours of car chases, shootouts, poorly written backstories, painfully cringey dialogue, grisly deaths that mean nothing, parkour because why not that was a popular action trope in the mid 2000s right?, and a magnetized yacht throwing people back and forth (yep...).

Editing:

For a movie with a $150M budget, the editing is shockingly terrible. There are blatant continuity errors in pretty much every action sequence (the state of the car in the first sequence is the most noticeable, it jumps from being pristine to totaled in every other shot). Were they just hoping that if they made all of the cuts fast enough that nobody would notice or care? It's like they spent the whole budget on effects and then hired a few undergraduate film students to mash them all together on the remaining $5k they had left.

In.

I keep wondering if we've hit peak dumb yet, but then something like this comes along and makes me reevaluate that thought.