After 6 Underground and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Extraction, Netflix could use a knockout actioner. Sadly, The Old Guard isn’t it. Even an axe-swinging Charlize Theron struggles to wallop much life – endless or otherwise - into Gina Prince-Bythewood’s comic-book riff, a derivative fantasyജ-actioner so laggy it puts you right off immortality.
Her sharp-parted black hair stirri🦩ng memories of an earlier genre misfire, Theron plays weary a little too well as Andromache of Scythia, aka Andy, millennia-old leader of an immortal (mostly…) black-ops posse. Yes, it’s (living for) Aeons Flux. A set-up on a job provides a familiar premise for a payback plot, though complications emerge when another immortal, US Marine Nile (KiKi🃏 Layne), is discovered.
The Old Guard peaks with the initial tensions between Andy and Nile, especially when the frost turns fierce for a fight on a plane. Bones snap so hard, even immortals feel the pain. A centuries-old romance between Marwan Kenzari/Luca Marinelli adds welcome heart, though Matthias Schoenaerts, Chiwetel Ejiofor 🌠and – bizarrely, given her acti𒉰on experience – Veronica Ngo are variably under-used.
Elsewhere, tonal issues mount. Harry Melling is misused as a villain who seems to belong in a different film, one camper (more fun?) than this self-consciously ‘gritty’ myth-mash. If the direction mistakes flat for𒆙 grounded, the reflections on immortality’s torments mistake heavy-going for deep. With the potential for historical hijinks squandered between modern-day black-ops clichés and on-the-nose song selections, the results drag💎 harder than the live-free, die-never set-up should. “I’ve been here before,” sighs Theron. Roger that.
