Action Hero Movies15 minutes in and we’ve had nothing but boring political drama. No action, and not an action hero in sight – at least not a credible one we can remotely admire. This movie series has really turned to faeces since Matt Damon called it a day.
The drama is kind of watchable but one may lose patience with it.
By half an hour in there’s been a little action, but it’s only mild.
Fortunately the action does get a little interesting in the second half hour, but it soon goes back to its boring political drama show waffle.
The star of the show this time round, while not receiving much screen time early on, is Jeremy Renner who seems like some kind of dollarstore Daniel Craig and I’m no Daniel Craig fan! Renner plays the archer in the Marvel Avengers movies. He’s no action hero though – he’s literally the worst one in those movies by a country mile.
In the second hour it becomes clear where the motivation for this sub-standard movie came from: it’s pushing transhumanism via virology, thus killing two birds with one stone. Hats off to Matt Damon for wanting no part of it — that’s one better than Statham who totally shilled for virology in his cool Transporter trilogy.
Rachel Weisz plays the lead female and does a respectable job of it.
Although the action did pick up in the second half of the movie, it never reached the level of the first good action scene from shortly after half an hour in. The action is a bit dull and one dimensional, and of course led by a sub-par star, so in the end I’m going to settle on a So-So rating here.