Mr Mark

An average 'Hollywoodized' movie- the book was written for the screen but the screenplay removed stoic character scenes, added a 'smarter' than protagonist female, changed locations, added scenes from book 2, gender & race swapped a minor key character, made CIA integral, swapped goal of rescuing 2 girls to a early teen with heart issues etc etc. Basically ticked all the boxes for some sort of academy award nod at the cost of undermining the books story. Great directors, big budget, great actors but low quality screenplay that aims ticking boxes rather than great storytelling. I expected better for a $200million movie- almost like they used 'Sweet Baby inc' to make screenplay more acceptable to the 1% audience.

Statham always great, but he was let down by lame screenwriting & poor directing. Statham carries the movie & is the prime marketing for the film. In the hands of a more capable director and better writing this could have been a great movie experience. Has great potential for a rewrite in the John Wick 1 vein- creating a Beekeepers organisation controlling chaos within the global hive. However, it was great to watch a movie with minimal DEI influence.

Brad Pitt in his prime, great cast of flawed heroes in theatre of war. Admirably reveals victims on both sides of war, with sparks of humanity giving us hope of future.

Superhero studio flick straight from the 80s...poor script, dumb storyline ('wish-stone'), corny at times, directing not great, with some good special effects. Gadot & Pine can't save this movie. DC failure is poor screenplays.