A team of US Navy SEALs, led by Senior Chief John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan), successfully conducted a hostage rescue mission in Aleppo, Syria. However, it turned out that the captors were Russian military, not Syrian as they were told by CIA deputy director Ritter (Jamie Bell). When they got back to the US, members of the team were being murdered one by one, apparently by Russian assassins as a retaliatory operation.
Kelly survived the attempt on his life, but his pregnant wife Pamela (Lauren London) was not so lucky. After he recovered from his injuries, Kelly convinced Secretary of Defense Thomas Clay (Guy Pearce) that he should be part of the team led by Lt. Commander Karen Green (Jodie Turner-Smith) formed to conduct a black-ops extraction mission in Russian territory to bring lead assassin Victor Rykov (Brett Gelman) out alive.
Just by the synopsis, you already know that this new movie was nothing more than a variation of the typical revenge movie, the one where the intrepid hero goes on a killing rampage to avenge his family who got hurt. The whole scenario of the US military going against Russian operatives aside, at its core this movie was just like any of those "John Wick," "Taken" or "Kill Bill" movies which had done this same story much better before. They even mention Tom Clancy's name in the title here, but do not expect any Jack Ryan to come out here.
Even if this film wanted to make a statement about the current state of disunity in the USA, the main aspect that kept this generic film together was the gritty and committed portrayal of Michael B. Jordan as John Kelly. Other than him, Bell, Pearce and especially the terribly miscast Turner-Smith, just turn in average to mediocre performances. On the positive side, the action scenes were graphic, frenetic and generally well-choreographed and executed, should be worth for adrenaline junkies to have their fix. 4/10.
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