There’s emotional weight to the action and the characters (Taslim and Sanada were both good, despite having their faces covered for half the film) and it gave you a sense of hope (which ended up being false) that this was going to be a video-game movie that was self-aware and had a chance to be good.
Read MoreThe show isn’t all bad because at the very least I felt compelled to finish it. I appreciate its ambitious international slant, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian and Gaelic, and the fight choreography is fast and vicious, mostly thanks to Uwais, perhaps the closest thing we have to a Jackie Chan or Jet Li in western cinema. The food looks good, too.
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