{"id":9928,"date":"2024-12-11T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2024-12-11T17:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:13:29","slug":"6-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/12\/11\/6-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"6 Underground <\/strong>(2019)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Netflix\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 128 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence and language throughout, bloody images, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Bay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Lorne Balfe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bojan Bazelli\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 13, 2019 (Netflix)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Laurent, Corey Hawkins, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona, Dave Franco, Lior Raz, Peyman Maadi.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: **<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is never any doubt, not even a nanosecond\u2019s worth, 6 Underground<\/strong> is a Michael Bay joint. It has all the classic signs. It\u2019s long, violent, hyper, incoherent, idiotic and extremely loud. It has minimal plotting and character development. It\u2019s aimed at 14YO boys of all ages. It couldn\u2019t have been made by anyone other than the guy responsible for all those Transformers movies, a fact noticeable by all who cast their eyes and ears upon it, from expert cinephiles all the way down to those with only a limited knowledge of cinema.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The title refers to an anonymous vigilante group of six, led by an eccentric billionaire genius (Reynolds, Deadpool), that metes out justice against the evildoers world governments refuse to touch. In order to do this anonymously, they fake their own deaths and identify only as numbers- e.g. Reynolds is \u201cOne\u201d. The others are former CIA spook \u201cTwo\u201d (Laurent, Inglorious Basterds), former hitman \u201cThree\u201d (Rulfo, The Magnificent Seven), agile young thief \u201cFour\u201d (Hardy, Bohemian Rhapsody), doctor \u201cFive\u201d (Arjona, Triple Frontier) and sniper \u201cSeven\u201d (Hawkins, Straight Outta Compton), a traumatized ex-soldier guilty over being unable to save his unit due to orders. Where\u2019s \u201cSix\u201d you ask? He dies in the movie\u2019s opening extended car chase.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The plot, if it even matters, has the team staging a coup d\u2019etat<\/em> in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Turgistan in order to depose the current leader, a brutal dictator (Raz, Operation Finale), and replace him with his more benevolent brother (Maadi, A Separation) who he has imprisoned in a luxury hotel in Hong Kong. The plan involves killing off his four military leaders, rescuing the brother and inciting the Turgistanian people to revolt.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Is it possible? Have audiences finally had enough of Bay and his noisy action vehicles that can be heard clear across the multiplex? If the grosses for the last Transformers movie are any indication, the answer is a great big YES. Given that 6 Underground<\/strong> is a Netflix movie, it would appear that Hollywood has lost confidence in him as well. Bay, being the formidable filmmaker he is, isn\u2019t about to let something as minor as a change in platform affect the way he makes movies. 6 Underground<\/strong> is every bit as messy, loud, dumb and expensive as anything involving giant alien robots.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As for 6 Underground<\/strong> being any good, it\u2019s really a toss-up. It has three cool action set pieces. The first is a 20-minute car chase through the streets of Florence, Italy during which no fruit carts are overturned. Our heroes are quickly introduced as they\u2019re chased by cops and Mafia guys. The second is at the Hong Kong hotel where Four\u2019s parkour skills come in extra handy. Who says you need an elevator to get from the penthouse to the ground? The third is the climax on board a yacht that One has somehow managed to magnetize. There is violence and blood aplenty in 6 Underground<\/strong>. The body count is very, VERY high. One of my favorite scenes involves a baddie getting shot in the head via the cigar in his mouth. This is what\u2019s good about the movie. The rest of it stinks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I guess what bothered me most about 6 Underground<\/strong> is Reynolds. Despite some of the titles on his resume, I don\u2019t really see him as an action lead. When he talks, all I can hear is his Deadpool character. Since I don\u2019t think Bay is going for comedy with 6 Underground<\/strong>, Reynolds is totally miscast. I kept think how much cooler it would be if One was played by Nicolas Cage.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As for the rest of the movie, it\u2019s mainly filler between the big action scenes I previously mentioned. Some of it involves One\u2019s reluctance to get close to his team. He keeps talking about family and Leave It to Beaver, but refuses to learn his team members\u2019 names. We learn a detail or two about each member (except the doctor) but not enough to make us care. Even though they\u2019re supposed to cut off all ties to their previous lives, Three still visits his mother in a nursing home. She has Alzheimer\u2019s so I guess it\u2019s okay. There\u2019s no point in discussing performance since the actors aren\u2019t given much to work with in terms of character. However, they do kick ass pretty well.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As far as the technical aspects are concerned, it\u2019s business as usual for Bay. 6 Underground<\/strong> is hyper-edited to the point of confusion and the sound is set at migraine-level. The latter thing is fixable thanks to the volume control on your remote; there\u2019s nothing to be done about the visual style.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to watch 6 Underground<\/strong> as an alternative to the Oscar fare that\u2019s especially popular this time of year. Many of them will probably like it. I\u2019m well aware that not everybody is as discriminating as me when it comes to film. These folks will happy to know that the door is left open for a franchise should enough people watch 6 Underground<\/strong>. Me, I\u2019ll watch future installments for the action and chase scenes. They\u2019re always fun.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

6 Underground (2019)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Netflix\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 128 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence and language throughout, bloody images, some sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Bay\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Lorne Balfe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Bojan Bazelli\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: December 13, 2019 (Netflix)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Laurent, Corey Hawkins, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona, Dave Franco, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6-Underground-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}