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None of the one liners hit, the script is not written well or meaningful in any way, and we have seen most of the action before. This is detail flavorless odorless visual junkfood that has nothing to say. I'm sure we can thank Chinese production restrictions for this.

The character motivations are razor thin and sometimes just inexplicable and annoying. The dialogue and ideas that are meant to be meaningful never are because they arent written well or thoughtful; they're all generic and you wont care at all for any of the endless cast of characters and their troubles. There are several action lines meant to be witty, but none of them resonate and you wont laugh even once.

What are we supposed to be celebrating here? What is the point of watching this film? It's just an empty cold wasteland or pointless action that tries desperately to be The Highlander without understanding anything about the heart and soul of those characters and how to emotionally resonate with an audience or build any kind of unifying themes.

Also, Charlize Theron is wafer thin and you will not for an instant buy the action she is selling, despite her boyish haircut and androgynous name and sense of style in this film. Alive for centuries, and never once learned to lift a weight.

Please dont make a sequel. Use the money and talents for something better.

You think this is a bizarre premise at first, but once you finally accept it and try to enjoy the dark comedy, all the cleverness is already gone and you know exactly how it is going to go (excepting perhaps the second to last scene, which I assume was the genesis for this script) as the constant and inexplicably bad decisions of the lead character amount to nothing more than a distractingly gory slasher flick posing thinly as a comedy that gets more and more annoying and predictible with every passing moment. As soon as the lead tears her dress up, you can guess exactly what the final line of the film is going to be and the pathetic lame joke she is going to make. The more I think about it, the more infuriating and derivative this whole thing is. But, at least there is that 2nd to last scene to bolster the film as a comedy.

Bryan tyler does his best at an obnoxiously ironic "comedy" score mixed with dark string ostinatos and some nice orchestral moments and atmosphere.

With that being said, the acting and directing are also actually very good, but it's just a slasher flick at the Bilderbergs house. Or the Vanderbilt's. Or Soros? Or whatever...

Spoiler:

At one point the family drinks hydrochloric acid and is somehow fine 5 minutes later. It is infuriating. Why even write this in the script? It is so frustrating...

In the 80s, youd have one-man-army films that worked because they we over the top or fun etc. So it still made sense if the plot was razor thin. The problem with making a film like this one so gritty and realistic and violent and dark, is that the plot and script must also represent this. This script and story dont even try.

The entire premise makes no sense...they insist on saving one kid for an evil drug lord...but dont mind killing 100 or 200 other people with children of their own who are just following orders and are probably just decent policemen who have no idea what's going on.

And they wont even get paid for it.

And theyll all probably die.

And, somehow, in the opener, one guy double crossed them and knew exactly where all his team was, even the guy in the woods. Such a bad lazy script all around meant only, one mist assume, to practice new stunts and choreography.

Beyond that, it is obvious that you will know all the cliches and tropes. But. You wont see some of the car hits coming because they are well shot, but also completely nonsensical since they come one after another, yet no one sees are hears them coming...again and again. Are the streets in india or Bangladesh covered in silent and cloaked electric vehicles? How about a gun and knife battle with cars and people that see it and completely ignore it and just try to get in the way of it. I mean, it is action and looks cool, if not real all the time, but it makes you groan often.

The acting is actually good all around, even the kid.

Oh, and of course, a beautiful woman gets the last kill without warning or explaining any of it, including what exactly physically makes her equipped to be such a character or how she possibly gets near the villain.

Frustrating. So much talent involved and it's just another one of these movies...