Brendon Petersen

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I watched this at a special screening arranged by Netflix. Yes, it’s visually appealing but that’s it. There is no storyline, the characters are flat and have no charisma and there’s nothing that gets the viewer invested in the movie. It’s a good looking, soulless movie that is very clearly taking plot cues from Star Wars, attempting to take some of the costume design from Dune, has a Conan the Barbarian type character and another which seems “inspired” by a Guy Ritchie character. None of it makes sense. The actors seem bored with their characters and there are too many cliche lines.

A vapid mess of a movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be. It starts as a fast paced commentary on the how the elderly are treated and how easy it is to abuse the system and take advantage of it, but then attempts to be a caper about a woman taking on the dangerous Russian mafia - all of whom are so incompetent and inept in this movie that there’s no way they could’ve survived undetected from the police or any law enforcement agency, but it also tries to be a visually striking movie at the cost of any semblance of a plot or storyline. No reasoning is provided for Rosamund Pile’s character behaviour other than that she wants to be rich and that she seems to classify herself as a strong woman and men hate a strong woman therefore she will never back down even when she’s the one in the wrong who is manipulating people and stripping them of their lives, their families and their dignity. Dianne Wiest’s character should’ve been the main character of this mess but alas, despite how interesting her character is and how well she plays the role, Wiest has been relegated to a supporting role whilst Pike’s character traipses all over this poorly written excuse of a movie that couldn’t be saved if every Netflix executive, the director and the producers all made a deal with the devil.