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Nov 15, 2017chaliser rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
As well done as most any star-studded spy-action flick w/a techno-psycho-neuro twist. Well, Ok, not too many of those. So it took time and space to build the technical foundation, but in spite of that it kept things going pretty hot, even then developing the characters very nicely. All while maximal brutality (emotionally horrific) courses gradually curve to parallel and increasingly resonate with a decidedly more empathic heart twang. I thought the CIA boss (director?) was a bit too much of a singularly focused hot-headed cowboy for us to believe he could get to that position. But that helped the plot along, even while I'm thinking "you idiot..." Every one else was very believable. Having so much success getting through so many multiple security systems as one might imagine necessary to set up the very heart of the plot, impending danger to utmost extremes, could make for a stretch of believability, and so in itself might otherwise make the very substance of a movie. But that is totally skipped in this one, and the above noted foundation building alone took enough movie minutes. But once taken in or tolerated, it's a wild action ride carrying the other more complex elements. The discussion in the special features is especially rich, call it multiplexed, into the depths of making a new kind of movie, one that moves very fast into a very interesting collage of places, new directors and experienced actors not always agreeing about how to move mentally, emotionally, and/or physically into hard action scenes, yet obviously collaborating.