6 Underground

Bay rulez them all!  A mediocre story about a team who kills evil bastards and stage coups d’etat in exploited countries that Wernick and Reese gave a non-linear narrative structure, Dead Pool-style humor and a cool giant magnet that has its say in the final act. Lots of blood, headshots, cussing and beautiful shots of wonderful models in spectacular action scenes, all of which are typical for Bay. Reynolds plays Reynolds and the rest of the team is well cast, but you’ll remember just the stats and the great lines. The backstories are routine. I have a feeling that Bay visits the same website where I go for wallpaper and then he makes movies in the most amazing locations. I didn’t expect we’d get this far. (12/13/2019)

Porn made up of explosions and self-indulgent action scenes that (unfortunately) doesn't have the necessary balls of Michael Bay's earlier work. The worst thing about an action movie is when you start yawning, which happened to me quite regularly here. Michael Bay unfortunately loses all reason and completely unceremoniously lets his uncontrolled and frightening imagination run wild. The result is an extremely tasteless film that presents all its characters as mere pawns used for action orgies. As lobotomizing weekend entertainment, it's pretty good, I just feel the need to humbly suggest that the 150 million could have been spent more effectively. (01/09/2020)

The action movie of the year arrives just before the end of a year where Netflix is clearly winning on the full front. Michael Bay is let off the chains like a hungry pit bull and serves up perhaps the purest action ecstasy, orgy and orgasm I've ever seen. From start to finish, this is an adrenaline-fueled, uncompromising, explosive, glammed-up wild ride that features two potentially iconic scenes (the opening chase in Florence and the finale with Magneto). Ryan Reynolds is traditionally excellent and his actor boost is nearly 100%, but the rest of the crew is impressive as well, with everyone being a pro at something different. On the action side of things, there's pretty much everything you can think of ( fast cars, beautiful women, parkour, shootouts, slow motion, location changes, explosions, destruction and juicy gore). The only thing I found lacking here was a proper fight, but otherwise a Bay beauty that I would love to have framed. Those who complain about the script should run against the wall to realize they're watching an action movie, not an Oscar-winning existential art sophisticated drama. 10/10. (12/13/2019)

The beginning bummed me out a little, even though I like fast car chases. This one took way too long. If I wasn't an unhip and uncool straight guy, I would probably have enough time to paint my nails (toenails included) while watching. The whole film would have been a guarantee of a five-star rating if it hadn't descended into the occasional bathos which went hand in hand with powerful American patriotism, and if the creators hadn't been so desperately trying to make a cool film full of oh-so-funny one-liners. By the way, for such good guys, they sure left behind a fairly high number of casualties. (01/11/2020)

Michael Bay is simply nuts. Moreover he thinks that a movie about a bunch of people who want to save the world but actually kill many innocents is going to be fun. And yes, I can say that the action was fun. I’ve probably never seen it affect it its surroundings as much in any movie. However, the action was the only thing that worked. The boys and girls here didn’t offer anything the audience could relate to. Even a sight of the half-naked Mélanie Laurent left me totally unaffected… and that’s saying something. (12/15/2019)