This is a fast paced action movie with a tendency for brutality and gore. This overshadows the few interesting action sequences and plot setup. The plot is not spoon fed to you, it's shot at you from a bazooka. This leads to a dull sense of purpose for the movie and it's easy to forget that there is a plot and just take in the action sequences. The actors do a decent job with the simple script, but there are too many characters and not enough time for you to develop any sense of care about any of them. It's a shame because this movie genre is very untapped.
PLOT: A new recruit has just joined an undercover government agency with 2 distinct groups, Alpha and Omega. Each group has agents named after Tarot cards. A string of events makes it a kill to survive theme battle against the clock to get out alive.
CHARACTERS: This movie's fast pace prevented any real character development. There are several characters all with very different attitudes and actions. However they seem like a group of interesting strangers because of how fast the movie's events unfold.
ACTORS: I was very excited for Odette Annable and Adam Scott. I was worried about Rob Corddry being annoying and Maggie Q being her typecast self. I had no idea who Joe Anderson was. Unfortunately, you barely get much to be happy or mad about because there is only so much time to split between several if not very popular at least known actors.
GENRE: This is a very interesting and in my opinion untapped genre. It is action at the core, and definitely a comedy given the cast. But it also incorporates government agency and conspiracy themes with plot twists. However, the plot twists get lost in all the action and there is a degree of brutality and dirtiness to this movie that renders it ineffective. To many of these themes contradict each other. This serves up a movie that can't be taken seriously, but isn't overly funny.
PRODUCTION VALUE: There was a fair amount of production value to this movie. It was shot well and action sequences were fun to watch. This was a movie that had the production value to be a heavy hitter. There were no real special effect, and some of the added in gore looks very fake.
SCRIPT: The script is a mystery. It could have been a great script and made an excellent book. In a medium where more attention is paid to detail, the script may have been great. Unfortunately the script gets lost in all the action. It would require a re-watch to better understand what underlying plots were happening, but the movie did not have the quality for that.
As always, send me any comments or your views,
Chris
PLOT: A new recruit has just joined an undercover government agency with 2 distinct groups, Alpha and Omega. Each group has agents named after Tarot cards. A string of events makes it a kill to survive theme battle against the clock to get out alive.
CHARACTERS: This movie's fast pace prevented any real character development. There are several characters all with very different attitudes and actions. However they seem like a group of interesting strangers because of how fast the movie's events unfold.
ACTORS: I was very excited for Odette Annable and Adam Scott. I was worried about Rob Corddry being annoying and Maggie Q being her typecast self. I had no idea who Joe Anderson was. Unfortunately, you barely get much to be happy or mad about because there is only so much time to split between several if not very popular at least known actors.
GENRE: This is a very interesting and in my opinion untapped genre. It is action at the core, and definitely a comedy given the cast. But it also incorporates government agency and conspiracy themes with plot twists. However, the plot twists get lost in all the action and there is a degree of brutality and dirtiness to this movie that renders it ineffective. To many of these themes contradict each other. This serves up a movie that can't be taken seriously, but isn't overly funny.
PRODUCTION VALUE: There was a fair amount of production value to this movie. It was shot well and action sequences were fun to watch. This was a movie that had the production value to be a heavy hitter. There were no real special effect, and some of the added in gore looks very fake.
SCRIPT: The script is a mystery. It could have been a great script and made an excellent book. In a medium where more attention is paid to detail, the script may have been great. Unfortunately the script gets lost in all the action. It would require a re-watch to better understand what underlying plots were happening, but the movie did not have the quality for that.
As always, send me any comments or your views,
Chris