The Old Guard

⭐ 6.5/10

(Originally written by Tim)

It's Saturday night, and you are at the home of your parents-in-law. Your wife says "let's watch Say I Do, a new Netflix show that's like Queer Eye only they do weddings", and her 2 sisters say "that sounds amazing". But your father-in-law says, "that's boring, I want to watch the new action movie on Netflix starring Charlize Theron. Tim, are you with me?" And that's how you end up in the man cave of your father-in-law watching The Old Guard.

I was pretty resistant and only watched it because it was the lesser of two evils. That being said, I was pleasantly surprised by how not terrible it was. It was way more sci-fi/comic-booky than I anticipated, basically a little group of people with the same super powers as Wolverine that have been alive for a long time fighting in tons of wars and experiencing the pain of everyone they love dying.

There are lots of pretty good actions scenes, and these four fighters use a combination of guns and swords, which is awesome. Charlize even has an axe that she has used for thousands of years! It goes without saying that the movie is quite violent, and loves showing you them getting disgusting injuries and then watching as their body heals itself.

So it exceeded expectations, but wasn't that good. The plot is thin, basically a bunch of things you have seen in movies a million times. If you are an action movie lover this is probably right up your alley.