Alarum

We only watched this because Sylvester Stallone was in it. I mean, I'm all for a guy getting paid, but damn this was a slogfest. It's touted as a spy action movie and it's trying, but this had to be one of the worst movies we've watched in a while. Hell, Stallone's previous movie Armor was better than this and that's saying something.

Stallone isn't in this movie for very long maybe 10 minutes, if that and he plays a super-assassin who's supposedly a master of poisons. Sounds cool, right? Wrong. He's terrible at his job in every conceivable way. It's disappointing, to say the least.

I'm not even going to talk about the plot because (A) it's terrible, and (B) I'd rather go on a tangent.

The bad guys in this movie are some of the most incompetent villains to ever grace the screen.

For example, our "heroes" are trapped in a small building with two automatic shotguns. The bad guys? They've got automatic weapons, surround the building, and outnumber them at least 3 to 1. Do they attack? No, because as one genius says, "They have heavy artillery." Seriously? I'm not sure if this was supposed to be a serious action movie or a comedy, but wow.

Another gem: the bad guys have the ex-female spy outnumbered and surrounded. Yet somehow, they still manage to lose because they're...well, terrible. I get it, main characters have plot armor, but come on how am I supposed to take this seriously when the villains seem braindead?

And don't even get me started on the drones in the last act. That final action scene has to be the stupidest thing ever put on film. I am convinced the technical advisor if there even was one had no clue how military drones actually work.

I cannot recommend this one by any means. Not even for Stallone fans. You'll just be highly, HIGHLY disappointed in his role and the acting here. Save yourself the time and just rewatch Demolition Man or Rambo instead. At least those movies are fun and entertaining.

I give this 3 out of 10.

I had the whole time the feeling that it's a comedy. A bluff, it made me laugh countless times. It was like a manual of how to NOT make a movie.

Not a single positive thing. Not a single logical thing. It is impossible for a movie script to make absolutely no sense, not even a single second.

So that's why i believe was made as an undercover comedy.

"We are here not to unleash chaos but to define it" is the most idiotic line ever written. Especially that he said it after he killed people of his own team... And also when he got a shot on the actual target of that chaos he simply didn't kill him...

Absolutely written badly on purpose.

My opinion...

I am still trying to understand why...

How can a movie production have all these good actors and still manage to make such a terrible movie. Directors do not get enough credit and this movie proves it. The acting is bad, the fight scenes are terrible you can see them waiting for one another to make a move with poor reactions to getting hit., the stunts are terrible. Maybe Stallone, Eastwood, and Colter owed someone new producer or director a favor? This movie should have a warning label letting viewers know they are going to be severely disappointed. It leaves you very curious as to why they would agree to participate in such a poorly conceived idea.

The ingredients are simple: lure some stars with synopsis to a project, but then put all of it in hands of bad writing, amateur direction, tons of nonsense and awful sfx, plot holes large as the local group of galaxies, drunk editing, absence of any coherence and attempts of acting (actually, what acting? True, some of the participants in this gave it a try but, alas, to no avail). Did you know that you can perform a large shootout (no one reloads even once) with a lot of explosions and noise in a relatively small town (they call it village), allegedly in Poland ("enemies" speak Russian, of course, and die like in John Wick, by dozens, being incompetent like kindergarten children), and no inhabitants even come to the window to see what happens? There's nobody anywhere near but "our heroes". The cherry on top of this mess is a strong hint on possible sequel, since this abruptly ends. God forbid! There are A movies, B movies, even C movies. At the bottom there are BS movies. This is a fine example. Two stars for skill of engaging Sly and Scott Eastwood. Were they blackmailed to participate? Nothing else could explain it. Run from this before it's too late.

Dreadful film, terrible script, editing and whats worse a waste of two otherwise fine actors in Eastwood and Stallone..

Would a directors cut save it, I doubt it unless it was a complete reshoot. What a shame.

Special effects were dreadful, storyline which it claims to have is full of holes and Scott's acting was terrible, when you think that two hollywood stars with with a list of successful films behind them couldn't save it it says a lot. If you go to the cinema to watch this I'd suggest watching the on screen advertisements and then leaving before it comes on.. the Add's would definitely be better.