![]() It's as if the big bad guy was criticizing the lesser bad guy's taste in wallpaper. Imagine you were a bad guy meeting an even more dangerous bad guy in your home, and your contact reveals that the place is bugged. People don't react the way you might expect. Cooper made his name in stage adaptations such as The History Boys and Mamma Mia and is now on AMC's Preacher, but nothing about his physicality or demeanor here says "highly trained military operative." Other than that, Stratton runs around unconvincingly firing weapons and not calling for backup. ![]() There's very little actual "character" to Stratton himself: He walks around looking serious, and we're told he's "a highly effective operative have a reputation for respecting authority or the chain of command." (Yes, it's that kind of script.) We also meet Stratton's father figure, a straight-up squandered Derek Jacobi playing a fisherman who apparently only exists on his boat. But the movie feels rooted in nothing but other similarly themed films. Most Americans have likely never heard of the "John Stratton" novels, but they supposedly offer grittier, more realistic special-operative fiction than, say, James Bond. It's hard to imagine how this unimpressive action film would have been greenlit if it hadn't been based on a book series.
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