TL;DR – While it has all the components for a good film, it feels like it is spending more of its time imitating than driving its own course.
Score – 2.5 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene
Review –
This is an interesting time for the action films, there are spaces where it is
showing brand new filmmaking techniques,
films that build tension as I have never
seen, or simply shots where you go, how did they get that? Unfortunately, today
I am not looking at a film like that, because today we review one of the most
paint-by-numbers films I have seen in a very long time.
So the set the scene, we open in Colombia where Pope (Oscar Isaac) works as an ‘independent
observer’ helping the local police take down one of the local drug cartels.
While there he becomes friendly with a local informant Yovanna (Adria Arjona)
who lets him know how to get to Gabriel Martin Lorez (Reynaldo Gallegos) the
local big bad. This is not a mission that he can pull off alone, nor does he
want to involve the locals because they might tip his hand. So instead, he goes
back to the States to recruit his old military Special Forces team. Redfly (Ben
Affleck) now sells condos … badly and can barely keep his head above water
after the divorce, Ironhead (Charlie Hunnam) spends all his time giving talks
to military trainees, and his brother Ben (Garrett Hedlund) is now an MMA fighter, and Catfish (Pedro Pascal) can
no longer fly planes after an incident. Together they go down to provide expert
reconnaissance, and maybe a bit more than just that.