While movie theaters are set to unveil Jedis and cats in a week's time, Netflix has delivered its Christmas gift early. Ryan Reynolds stars in what's probably the streaming giant's most expensive original movie yet: 6 Underground.
Underground's $150 million dollar budget is on full display in this Mission: Impossible meets Fast and Furious actionstravaganda about a team of vigilantes on a mission to administer lethal justice to powerful scumbags. Like the John Wick flicks, 6 focuses on action without the participation of magic or superheroes. You won't see any capes but you will see plenty of shootouts, car crashes, blood splatters and detonations.
** SPOILERS AHEAD **
When an unnamed billionaire (played by Reynolds) sees firsthand how difficult it can be to help the people who need it most, he comes up with a radical plan. After faking his death, he recruits specialist in various disciplines (an assasin, a surgeon, a spy, an acrobatic jewel thief) to do the same in order to make them impossible to identify and to adopt numerical codenames. The group then goes after various targets who they believe do their countries -- and the world -- more harm than good. After the inaugural mission ends with the professional getaway driver's (called "Six") death, the billionaire ("One") signs up a Delta Force sniper (renamed "Seven") to take his spot.
6 Underground does a lot of globe-trotting to what seem like the places that the James Bond, Mission: Impossible and Jason Bourne movies forgot about (Florence, Italy; Vegas; New York) and does its best to match the body-counts of those films. If you're in the mood for slick, high-octane action combined with Ryan Reynolds brand of smart-ass humor and you have a Netflix account then you're in luck.
It's a pretty simple formula: Deadpool + The Fast and the Furious + Mission: Impossible = 6 Underground.
Originally Posted 12/13/19
This sounds good so I will be checking it out!
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