An insipid spy flick Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, Mike Colter, J K Simmons Rating: 1.5* OTT: Netflix Director Julian Farino tri...
An insipid spy flick
Cast: Mark Wahlberg,
Halle Berry, Mike Colter, J K Simmons
Rating: 1.5*
OTT: Netflix
Director Julian Farino tries hard to make a heady cocktail mix of Mission Impossible and James Bond but the film falls flat on its face despite boasting of two excellent actors - Mark Wahlberg & Halle Berry supported by J K Simmons. This spy flick is so insipid and pedestrian that you just want to get it over with or switch to some other film (that would be very rude). Even the talented Berry & Wahlberg despite looking comfortable with each other, lack the chemistry and look bored throughout without much charm.
An extraction goes
horribly wrong in Trieste, Italy, where the team led by Roxanne (Berry)
ends up dead and the undercover clandestine operative agency called The
Union headed by Tom Brennan (Simmons) gets compromised. She requests
Brennan to let her get a common man for the job.
Mike (Wahlberg) is a middle-aged
broke construction worker living with his mother in his hometown Patterson, New
Jersey. He hangs around in bars with his old friends and his biggest
achievement is a one-night-stand with his 7th grade teacher. He also has an
important event - attending his friend's wedding where he is the best man. In
short, he is the everyman whose life has not got started.
One evening, like a
breath of fresh air, Roxanne (Berry), his ex from school, comes to meet
him, and the next thing Mike remembers is waking up in London. Rox explains the
scenario to Mike who then undergoes rigorous training to get inducted into The
Union.
Actors like Simmons
are quite wasted and the others like Jackie Earle Haley (playing Foreman),
Alice Lee as Athena Kim and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Frank have underwritten
characterisations.
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