An average movie

I have noticed that this movie was a big critical and commercial flop when it was released but, since there was such a cool cast involved, I was still eager to check it out though. Well, I’m not surprised that it didn’t work out as the damned thing turned out to be so underwhelming. Apparently, Jessica Chastain came up with this concept of some female version of ‘Mission Impossible’ and pitched it to Simon Kinberg while they were working together on ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ (by the way, the fact that this movie turned out be even worse than the weakest X-Men installment displayed that Kinberg should probably stop directing movies). The main issue was that they were all chasing such a lame and generic MacGuffin and, to make things worse, the whole plot built around it was so weak as well. Basically, they kept finding and losing this high-tech gizmo again and again which became just so tedious really quickly. Another really lame idea was to have Sebastian Stan playing some rogue agent. Seriously, it was so derivative and predictable, it basically had no entertaining value whatsoever. In a similar fashion, the whole idea of the psychologist/therapist/whatever played by Penélope Cruz tagging along for such a lethal mission was also ridiculous and even borderline idiotic. Concerning the action scenes, I guess they did work but I can’t say they really impress me either. It’s too bad because they had such neat cast involved (Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong'o, Bingbing Fan, Sebastian Stan, Edgar Ramírez, Jason Flemyng) but there was not much they could do with such poor material. Anyway, to conclude, even though the concept did have some potential, Simon Kinberg delivered another pathetic directorial effort here and I don’t think the damned thing is really worth a look after all.