MILD SPOILERS BELOW
Just so careless and bland, I find it difficult to believe Edgar Wright made that. Nothing makes sense, there's nothing clever about it, the action is all just that over-edited, no one able to shoot in a straight line, CG shit that you might expect from something like Taken 3 or Underworld 4. So many weird bad decisions, like having one character do some Truman Show level blatant product placement and give a terrible over the top performance and then not have that all be clues that he's a plant, have it just be bad movie-making, or having the first time the baddies discover the location of the lead character be a very cogent dream/his imaginings of how they might find him, so that every subsequent time they discover him you're assuming it's going to turn out to be a dream again, or mention that the baddies watch you through your television sets and then have the lead guy watch tv constantly and yet never get tracked because of it. Honestly, there are like a hundred of these. If there were a Pitch Meeting video for this, it'd be an hour long. And the social commentary feels hopelessly dated for most of it - at best it's like watching the Fifteen Million Merits episode of Black Mirror in 2025 and thinking 'wow, the media landscape changed so much in 15 years' but really it's about as relevant as the Arnie adaptation. Such a waste of a bunch of good actors, too.
Rating: inexplicably awful.
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