6 Underground (2019)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Michael Bay (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers 1-5, Bad Boys 1-2)
	Actors: Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool 1-2), Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 09.02.2020, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: An underground team led by a billionaire is working on taking down a dictatorship.
Review: What to expect when Michael Bay directs this Netflix movie instead of  Bad Boys 3? Cinema is changing and not always for the best. As in many other Netflix productions, the budget is sufficient and the movie looks serious but something is missing, maybe a more thought-through story. The message of the movie is something like: whatever bad-ass you may be and strong motivation you may have, you still need something to fight for: friends, family, your country... We get enough exciting car chases, relatable main group of characters, a really bad guy, some high-tech... plenty of basic ingredients of a Spy/Action movie like a Mission: Impossible, but even though it tries to bring something new and more modern to the genre, it fails. One could say that this kind of movie is formatted for a Netflix-audience with short attention span but I am not sure that is true. Read my post about Bright for a comparison between the young movie-making industries and the young car-making industries. 6 Underground finds its place on the shelf of those strange recent movies which are hard to review because they are definitely not good but also not horribly bad, just somewhere in the middle hard to define, not like other average movies.
Rating: 4 /10