I thought that Elsa Pataky was OK in this film. She was not great, but she did well enough. Luke Bracey as the villain kind of takes the spotlight for charm, too. But that's as much as I can say that is positive about the film. The plot is ludicrous, from the main story to the smallest details that they get so wrong. The acting, other than what I mentioned, is bad. Some characters are completely useless, you see them then they just vanish. The dialogue is clunky. The budget must have been minuscule, too. And producer Chris Hemsworth's cameo in it is pretty much offensive. Not more than the ending, though.
What is it about? A female U. S. captain who speaks English with a heavy Spanish accent is reassigned to a nuke interception station in the middle of the ocean as punishment for metooing a three star general. There she has to pretty much singlehandedly foil an assault by hostile forces that want to nuke the U. S. In the middle, we get to talk about the state of the nation and touch on important things as sexism and red neck racism.
The problem with the film is that, other than the main plot of bad ass woman, fails on every other level. The idea that the continental U. S. is defended by just two stations that can be taken while no one can get to them in time is stupid, but let's roll with it. The idea that one could sink one of the stations at any time, but chooses to burn through two thick steel doors in order to burn the circuits with acid is even dumber, but OK, the guy has a burning fetish. Having not one, but two different ways in the command center other than the door after literally saying that's the only way in an out is indefensible, but having the villains taking those paths in only randomly and ignoring them otherwise is pathetic. And the piece of resistance: having more villains than there are people who are not on a military platform.
Perhaps the worst part is that it touches on some things: the greed that makes people harm themselves, cultism and sexism and racism in the army, the inherent weakness of regular people who are invested in the lives of others. But then it bungles those things up with a redemption story that validates business as usual and relegates the hero to another thankless job that she is, of course, thankful for. And this film is now number 1 on Netflix, which pretty much explains why the company is dying.
What is it about? A female U. S. captain who speaks English with a heavy Spanish accent is reassigned to a nuke interception station in the middle of the ocean as punishment for metooing a three star general. There she has to pretty much singlehandedly foil an assault by hostile forces that want to nuke the U. S. In the middle, we get to talk about the state of the nation and touch on important things as sexism and red neck racism.
The problem with the film is that, other than the main plot of bad ass woman, fails on every other level. The idea that the continental U. S. is defended by just two stations that can be taken while no one can get to them in time is stupid, but let's roll with it. The idea that one could sink one of the stations at any time, but chooses to burn through two thick steel doors in order to burn the circuits with acid is even dumber, but OK, the guy has a burning fetish. Having not one, but two different ways in the command center other than the door after literally saying that's the only way in an out is indefensible, but having the villains taking those paths in only randomly and ignoring them otherwise is pathetic. And the piece of resistance: having more villains than there are people who are not on a military platform.
Perhaps the worst part is that it touches on some things: the greed that makes people harm themselves, cultism and sexism and racism in the army, the inherent weakness of regular people who are invested in the lives of others. But then it bungles those things up with a redemption story that validates business as usual and relegates the hero to another thankless job that she is, of course, thankful for. And this film is now number 1 on Netflix, which pretty much explains why the company is dying.