6 Underground (2019)

Hi-Octane Action Thriller - 6 Underground review by GI

A thoroughly over-the-top action thriller and exactly the sort of thing you expect from director Michael Bay. And yet it's simply great fun and entertaining if at times downright silly. It is certainly hi-octane from the opening car chase in Florence to the climax and as expected with bay it's an ode to weaponry and gunplay. Basically this is Bay harnessing the Mission Impossible franchise into his own take with added humour courtesy of Ryan Reynolds who plays the leader of a team of experts all with complex pasts they have left behind to become the righters or wrongs. They've even given up their names so Number 1 (Reynolds), who appears to have bankrolled the whole arrangement, has gathered together a team with various skills mostly to do with combat. His Number 2 (Mélanie Laurent) being the beautiful assassin type. In short they plan to depose a nasty tyrant who keeps killing his own people and replace him with his more caring brother but first have to rescue said brother. It all carries on with a bit of globetrotting and luxury locations, lots of explosions, and whilst some of it is a bit surreal it is definitely a real blast to watch. One of those pure action entertainment films and nothing more aided by Reynolds comedy persona.