Sunday 12 July 2020

The Old Guard (2020)

Takes a relatively intriguing concept and makes a hash of it. It looks nice enough and the action is okay, but the dialogue is perfunctory and the tone is needlessly dour. Worst of all, the structure is a busy unsatisfying mess - it feels like the last few episodes of a tv season compacted down into a movie, changing a status quo we never get to see and setting up a new status quo for a sequel that will probably never happen.
Best case scenario, a sequel does get made and turns out to be strong, and this will be thought of as the 'not too bad first film that you may as well watch to get the full story'.
Rating: Bad

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