Genre: Action
Runtime: 128 minutes
Year: 2019
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Dave Franco, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Corey Hawkins, Adria Arjona
Description: Six untraceable agents, totally off the grid. They’ve buried their pasts so they can change the future.
Review: Under the names One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six, six people work together to eliminate notorious criminals. They all disappeared by staging their own deaths. As ghosts from the past living in freedom, they are all brought together by One, a billionaire mastermind and leader of the team. With their unique skills, they start a mission to change the future. A mission in Florence brings them to Rovachs, the blood-thirsty dictator of Turgistan.
After Michael Bay broke through in the mid-90s with the spectacular action film “Bad Boys”, “The Rock” and “Armageddon”, he spend half of last century making Tranformers movies. From 2007 to 2017 he delivered us five films in this franchise. And they were all not that great. Which is pretty much the standard for a Michael Bay movie. They are all spectacular, but not that great. With a budget of 150 million dollars, Bay made the Netflix film “6 Underground”.
And from the first minutes of the film, you can see where that budget went, because like any Bay movie, it’s super flashy, sexy and over-the-top spectacular. Because the film looks fantastic.
As a viewer, you’re kind of searching for the how and what in the story. But there is hardly any time to take a breath and think about this. There is not really a very deep story here. But what this movie lacks even more is logic. Why is the death driver being replaced by a trained sniper? And is it just me or is One the worst person to be a leader of this team? And if they want to do good, why do they keep on driving into crowds and probably killing innocent people? I think a film like this doesn’t need logic, as long as it doesn’t take itself too serious. Unfortunately Michael Bay always takes himself very seriously.
Ryan Reynold is the lead in this action flick and he is surrounded by a cast that looks great on paper. And it doesn’t surprise you that all of them look beautiful, are almost flawless at what they do and don’t really have any depth. The dialogues are exchangeable and sometimes even unnecessary and the jokes feel like the ones that didn’t make it in any of the “Deadpool” films.
It's clear that “6 Underground” is all about the visual flair and spectacular action. Don’t expect any more then that.
Rating: 2,5 / 5
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