Two really good scenes. When Jason Bateman first contacts Taron Egerton and starts threatening him. And that car crash scene with the cop and the bad guy.
The rest is contrived. The baddies go to so much trouble. Is there not an easier way? The characters are uninvolving. Much feels generated by AI or has "sixteenth draft" syndrome - dull wife (pregnant with perfect hair and glossy lips and shoehorned action sequence), dull backstory (I want to be a cop)
I sensed I'd be in trouble with the opening sequence - Jason Bateman casually killing a bad guy, just shooting a fifty worder with one shot, walking into a car and blowing up a greenhouse just to be "cool". There was no real thought put into these scenes and so it proved for the rest of the film
I wish people who tried to copy Die Hard would study Die Hard more closely.
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