6 UNDERGROUND
US, 2019, 128 minutesColour.
Ryan Reynolds, Melanie Luarent, Corey Hawkins, Adriana Arjona, Manuel Garcia- Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Lior Raz, Dave Franco.
Directed by Michael Bay.
This is a Michael Bay action show – fulfilling all the hopes of Michael Bay fans, fulfilling all the criticisms of Michael Bay non-fans.
The 6 underground are six warriors who take on cases of protection, participation in uprisings to remove dictators and install more favourable rulers.
There are a range of settings, the fictitious country of Turgistan, Italy, Las Vegas, Hong Kong. There are fights, battles, assassinations.
Ryan Reynolds is the leader of the group – who seem to have some kind of immortality (a connection with the themes of Charlize Theron and Co in The Old Guard).
1. Michael Bay action adventure? Pace, action, sound volume, editing and pace? Larger-than-life?
2. The range of settings, Turgistan, US and Las Vegas, Italy and Florence, Hong Kong. Audiences caught up in these locations? Musical score and atmosphere?
3. Turgistan, the regime, the up people, the violence? One and his experience? Billionaire, his inventions and magnets? His change of pace, forming the group? Motivation?
4. The range of the group, Two, a spy; Three, a hitman; Four, a parkour runner and thief; Five, a doctor; and Six, a driver. Their personalities, anonymity, interactions, revelation of names? And Blaine, his work, self-conscious, guilt, recruited, becoming Seven?
5. The dictator, his power, personality, henchman? His brother? His brother in exile? The rescuer of the brother from Hong Kong?
6. Sequences in Italy, the Mafia, car chases in Florence? Sequences in Las Vegas, the assassination of the generals?
7. The buildup to the return Turgistan, the plan, the taking over of the radio station, substituting the brother’s voice? The dictator fleeing to the yacht, the pursuit of the yacht, the technical overpowering of the yacht?
8. The defeat of the dictator, the installation of the brother?
9. And future plans for 6 underground?
