It's a Michael Bay film. There's a sky-high body count, jaw-dropping settings and effects, product placement galore and a clear line between who's the good and bad guys.
It also has Ryan Reynolds and some other very likeable, and perfect looking people playing spy/assassin/thieves from central casting. Other than processing the high octane action and suspending an incredible amount of disbelief, this is the least work your brain will ever have to do while watching a film.
It's brilliant and awful. It reinforces a dangerous idea that so long as you're 'right', you can kick off a fight however you want with impunity and utter disregard for any other point of view. The only people who have emotional consequences are the 'good' guys (the soaring emotions of their back and front stories are tears-in-your eyes stuff, but presumably the several hundred bad guys they've just slain didn't have adorable kids, or cute puppies or loving grannies). The final scenes are gratuitous, depicting middle Easterners as barbarians, and the 'good' guys as judge, jury and executioner in the most base way possible.
I know people think that reading too much into a Michael Bay movie is a fool's errand, but if you've ever looked at a road-rager smashing the windows of a car owned by a complete stranger who's just ticked them off a bit, you've also seen a Michael Bay film.
It's an astonishing film, but in terms of a watching diet, it's empty calories.
Review of 6 Underground
