I really wanted to like this film. It's got a simple but fun premise and it's got Charlize Theron, who's a fantastic actress. But the film is just marred by plot holes, cliched characters, tacky dialogues and hands down the most inadequate music possible for this film.
It's still a passable action film if you have absolutely nothing else to watch.
The Old Guard
2020
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
The Old Guard
2020
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
Plot summary
Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron),a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it's up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne),the newest soldier to join the ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 2160p.WEBMovie Reviews
Great potential. Ultimately mediocre
Meh
Disappointing. Looks like a lazy film made for TV, aiming mostly at a teenage audience. Not even a scratch on Atomic Blonde and Mad Max, two others Charlize's action films, which are in a different league to this mediocrity.
Not bad at all
Pretty good for a modern comic book action story. Seems to be a lot of negative reviews floating around but I couldn't see anything much to dislike about this. A nicely diverse cast featuring a lot of nationalities you don't often see on screen in a mainstream movie, and nice to have no stale male white leads. Charlize Theron cements her talent for action cinema after MAD MAX: FURY ROAD and gives another good physical performance. The story of immortality is interesting background for a familiar 'good guys vs. Sinister organisation' tale, it's not very deep but it has plentiful well choreographed action to see it through.