Acting: 2
Camera work: 6
Editing: 4
Budget: 7
Story: 3
Theme: 2
Pure entertainment factor: 3
Video quality: 8
Special effects: 3
Pacing: 3
Suspension of disbelief: 1
Non-cringe factor: 1
Lack of flashbacks: 8
If you told me this movie was written in 2 weeks and then filmed and edited the same month I would actually believe you. It's obviously a movie Netflix ordered and the whole team behind it just delivered something lazy that's technically a movie yet has absolutely no soul. The actors are not even trying here. The CGI is dirt cheap. They lazily speak their lines in scenes that clearly were one-shot scenes with no retries. This also means there are zero connections between the actors. They may as well have been sitting alone in their room reading out lines. The love interest delivers the worst performance I have seen in the last year. And her and Kevin Hart have absolutely no chemistry. All their scenes are meant to be overly emotional and romantic. Yet it's utter cringe that doesn't work for a single second.
Obviously the trailer makes it out to be a fun low-brow comedy. Of course there is not a single comedic scene here. It's not a comedy. Rather it's just a bunch of silly badly written scenes. It seldom feels like there is a connection between scenes. It reminds me of Now You See Me 2. Just a bunch of obnoxious and loud scenes creating drama by being over the top at every moment with no clear story anywhere. There is no logic here. It starts out with a dramatic heist where they have technology that can start a fake fire alarm and time the moment the firemen arrive down to the second. It's just nonsense magic used to rob and escape. The whole initial heist is illogical. The main heist is nonsense too.
First heist they fake kidnap a guy who made an NFT then use the media fanfare around the kidnapping to sell the NFT for $89M. We are just dreaming up magical numbers here. Also, the guy was gone for maybe a single night. No one thought he was just out partying as was the actual case? He also had his phone on him so cops could track him down and parents could call him yet he never seems to notice there is anything wrong. And the media somehow writes the story right away even though everyone saw where he went.
Main heist is them trying to steal $1bn worth of gold from a passenger plane. Because in this magical universe passenger planes transport a billion worth of gold letting 2 different criminal gangs on the plane. With weapons, a fake bomb, and various tools. They seem to just walk into places and steal millions while smiling and having fun. And the movie never explains how it happens. As long as the scenes are flashy everyone is satisfied. They can just explain away anything by showing some magical tech doing it.
The main plot is about a terrorist leader killing thousands of people worldwide to shorten stocks and get rich. And even though everyone knows exactly what he is doing, who works for him, and what disaster events he created they are unable to do anything about him. He has killed people all over the world so half the planet likely wants him dead. But somehow they are unable to even create a new law to arrest him. Or just do something illegal like bring him to Guantanamo or kidnap him and bring him to some military base in Africa or the Middle East as is often done with people suspected of terrorism. Heck, these cases often even involved illegal torture by CIA. In what world could this guy live openly in the West? Of course you may think you can suspend your disbelief and still enjoy it. But that's not the issue here. It's that there is no story either way. There is no story to follow here even if you are a little kid ready to jump into any storyline no matter how silly. It's still just a collection of badly acted scenes with no humor. The whole robbery storyline is not even explained clearly, it's just told to us via a bit of exposition.
No one should watch this movie. No one will enjoy this movie. It's not just lazy. This is clearly something made for Netflix in no time just for some cheap profit. As always we can't really blame the CGI artists working for basically no money 60 hours a week. Everyone else should feel horrible shame including us viewers. Kevin Hart may have ruined his career with this.
If you told me this movie was written in 2 weeks and then filmed and edited the same month I would actually believe you. It's obviously a movie Netflix ordered and the whole team behind it just delivered something lazy that's technically a movie yet has absolutely no soul. The actors are not even trying here. The CGI is dirt cheap. They lazily speak their lines in scenes that clearly were one-shot scenes with no retries. This also means there are zero connections between the actors. They may as well have been sitting alone in their room reading out lines. The love interest delivers the worst performance I have seen in the last year. And her and Kevin Hart have absolutely no chemistry. All their scenes are meant to be overly emotional and romantic. Yet it's utter cringe that doesn't work for a single second.
Obviously the trailer makes it out to be a fun low-brow comedy. Of course there is not a single comedic scene here. It's not a comedy. Rather it's just a bunch of silly badly written scenes. It seldom feels like there is a connection between scenes. It reminds me of Now You See Me 2. Just a bunch of obnoxious and loud scenes creating drama by being over the top at every moment with no clear story anywhere. There is no logic here. It starts out with a dramatic heist where they have technology that can start a fake fire alarm and time the moment the firemen arrive down to the second. It's just nonsense magic used to rob and escape. The whole initial heist is illogical. The main heist is nonsense too.
First heist they fake kidnap a guy who made an NFT then use the media fanfare around the kidnapping to sell the NFT for $89M. We are just dreaming up magical numbers here. Also, the guy was gone for maybe a single night. No one thought he was just out partying as was the actual case? He also had his phone on him so cops could track him down and parents could call him yet he never seems to notice there is anything wrong. And the media somehow writes the story right away even though everyone saw where he went.
Main heist is them trying to steal $1bn worth of gold from a passenger plane. Because in this magical universe passenger planes transport a billion worth of gold letting 2 different criminal gangs on the plane. With weapons, a fake bomb, and various tools. They seem to just walk into places and steal millions while smiling and having fun. And the movie never explains how it happens. As long as the scenes are flashy everyone is satisfied. They can just explain away anything by showing some magical tech doing it.
The main plot is about a terrorist leader killing thousands of people worldwide to shorten stocks and get rich. And even though everyone knows exactly what he is doing, who works for him, and what disaster events he created they are unable to do anything about him. He has killed people all over the world so half the planet likely wants him dead. But somehow they are unable to even create a new law to arrest him. Or just do something illegal like bring him to Guantanamo or kidnap him and bring him to some military base in Africa or the Middle East as is often done with people suspected of terrorism. Heck, these cases often even involved illegal torture by CIA. In what world could this guy live openly in the West? Of course you may think you can suspend your disbelief and still enjoy it. But that's not the issue here. It's that there is no story either way. There is no story to follow here even if you are a little kid ready to jump into any storyline no matter how silly. It's still just a collection of badly acted scenes with no humor. The whole robbery storyline is not even explained clearly, it's just told to us via a bit of exposition.
No one should watch this movie. No one will enjoy this movie. It's not just lazy. This is clearly something made for Netflix in no time just for some cheap profit. As always we can't really blame the CGI artists working for basically no money 60 hours a week. Everyone else should feel horrible shame including us viewers. Kevin Hart may have ruined his career with this.