Maedhros35

I've seen many "meh" movies on Netflix, but this one is quite near the bottom of the pile. It fills all the typical Netflix cliches: Bumbling white male fool is way out of his depth while trained by highly competent black woman for a top-seecret mission he has no idea about. The mission then fails - of course - and the highly competent black woman has to save his behind.

The movie is listed as an "action comedy", but while there's plenty of action there's zero comedy. It's more like how a dream: a disjointed mess of scenes making little sense and no underlying storyline.

As a movie, it's a complete waste of time, except when you're a very big fan of Halle Berry.

"Michiel de Ruyter" is a historical drama depicting the last 20-ish years of his life, between the "Battle of Scheveningen" and his death. This was a very turbulance period in Dutch history: the country had just finished a brual 80-years war against the Spanish, only to be attacked by the English (multiple times) and in 1672 by the English, the French and the Germans at once (the "Rampjaar"). Nevertheless the Netherlands survived, not in the least because of the military brilliance of de Ruyter.

As a movie, it quite accurately depicts the events of those years, although somewhat condensed (for example: his children hardly age in the 20+ years between the first battle and the last battle). For non-Dutch people (and even for many Dutch people) it may be quite difficult to follow the plot. The filming is quite good and many 17-th century houses were used as filmic locations.