The ten-thousandth secret agent spy-thriller to needlessly flaunt the metaphor of someone being or becoming “a ghost,” 6 Underground sees Michael Bay set up a team somehow even more idiotically outrageous than some robots that turn into cars and trucks.
Led by Ryan Reynolds—doing a charismatic smart-ass routine, if you can believe it—6 Underground’s title task force is composed of a half-dozen outrageously attractive billionaires who have faked their deaths. They’ve become ghosts! Also, they’ve become vigilantes hunting the world’s deadliest criminals. And with the Transformers director at the helm, you’d better believe their missions involve a lot of obnoxious, over-saturated photography, a load of digital weeeeeeeoooOORRRRRs and wubs, and, yes, explosions touted to involve “a metric f💥ck-load of dynamite.” It’s Bay all the way.
Yet, appearing neither as smart and riveting as a Mission: Impossible entry, nor as gleefully stupid as a Fast and/or Furious, it’s hard to imagine all that much of a bang when this lands on Netflix December 13.
