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Two action scenes aside, this is such a boring, poorly written film, with Tom Hardy phoning in his Eddie from the Venom films and Gareth Evans weirdly shooting in Cardiff and using gross amounts of distracting CGI to make it look like New York, with CG cars and L trains that move like toys. It all looks cheap. The dialogue is, like his Gangs Of London, snarling cliche after snarling cliche. Even if you turn off your brain expecting to enjoy the action, the two action scenes are over too quickly and are NOT up to the level of The Raid films. They feel lacking in ideas and suffer from eye-rolling infinite bullets and characters suddenly displaying black-belt level martial arts skills with no explanation or backstory explaining how they got them.

I'd skip and rewatch The Raid films.

So wanted to enjoy this. But... Oh, boy, what a dull movie. The actors look bored. The script is one of the worst I have witnessed. It's a hodge podge of other movie's scenes. ET, Aliens, T2 in the first 10 mins alone.

What a waste of talent. Is everyone now just cashing in the Netflix dollar and not caring about entertaining the audience. $320m and there's no soul, nobody to care about, no humour, no story, no jeopardy, nothing.

Predictable. The two stars look lost. The only redeeming feature is the FX which are phenomenally good. But you'd have as much fun flicking through the pictures in the book than you would sitting through 2 hours of this trite.