Ratings: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1h 38min
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González
Language: English
Ninety eight minutes and not a second of it interested in being polite. Guy Ritchie leans hard into his favorite trick here rapid fire. So Voiceover montages colliding with sharply. Cut strategy sessions turning exposition into a kind of clock watching sport. Ed Wild shoots the film in a chalk dry haze of underlit interiors and washed out grey. Corridors where every surface seems scraped raw and that visual fatigue becomes part of the point. Henry Cavill carries the weight physically his posture stays locked shoulders tight jaw clenched so long it looks painful . I kept waiting for the film to loosen its grip. It never does. Among free movies afdah released this year few feel this bone tired and deliberately airless. Christopher Benstead’s score never chases heroics it tightens like a cable being pulled through concrete adding a low ceiling pressure that hangs over nearly every exchange. Still the most curious thing is what happened off screen this was filmed. Years before release a studio shelf sitter that arrived with oddly muted fanfare instead of manufactured hype. However That changes things. You stop watching for triumph and start watching for friction. The result is grainy cold blooded and occasionally. Over rehearsed but when the credits hit yeah the thing sticks around like bad weather.