Review of War on Everyone (2016) by Ninh N — 01 Dec 2016

Everyone gets a mis-step, and this is John Michael McDonagh's. Sporadically funny, and drops the tantalising suggestion that Alexander Skarsgard has a hitherto unexplored flair for visual comedy, but the funnies are too few and far between and they aren't made in service of any plot or character structure worth caring about.

An attempt to up the stakes and explain the vague "organised crime" threat late in the piece comes across as unfortunately tacky rather than just trite.