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His ultra-macho style of filmmaking is already so ingrained in Hollywoods mainstream that he had no use for a streaming service that prides itself on handing over complete control to directors.

But weve still somehow ended up with 6 Underground, a film that demonstrates perfectly what happens when Bays impulses are left completely unchecked.

Things start out promising, with a delirious car chase through the streets of Florence, Italy.

A multi-tiered wedding cake isnt as lucky; neither are the bystanders who dont happen to look like Peroni calendar models.

The sequence finally ends with a quick drive through the world-famous Uffizi Gallery, with Michelangelos David nearly knocked off its pedestal.

Its magnificent and grotesque in equal measure a slice of maximalist excellence.

But its all interrupted by that inconvenient thing called a plot, as the film unravels over the course of multiple flashbacks and sidetracks.

We learn how One assembled his crew of deadly misfits, brought together to do what he claims world governments cannot stop the real evil motherfers.

That said, its hard to tell what Paul Wernick and Rhett Reeses script is actually about.

Does it want us to put our faith in ultra-wealthy individuals instead of elected officials Is it a capitalist fever dream Or just anarchy The teams main mission is to topple the dictator of Turgistan (the name of a real province in the ancient Sasanian Empire, now used to denote a fictional, stereotypically Middle Eastern country).

They plan to do so by freeing his democracy-loving brother ( A Separation s Payman Maadi) and kickstarting a coup dtat.

8 Underground Install This Dictator

Yet, in the same breath, its revealed that the US were the ones to install this dictator in the first place.

Is 6 Underground attempting to criticise western interventionism while also gleefully supporting it Who knows.

Its impossible to tell what the films about or whats going on in any given moment with it being edited this furiously.

Although were used to Bays films cutting constantly between different angles, 6 Underground borders on parody.

Wernick and Reese are best known for writing Reynoldss aggressively irreverent dialogue in the Deadpool films.

They throw the actor a few choice lines here, but its hard to stomach the references to Eighties sitcoms when theyre here being contrasted with scenes of gas attacks and refugee camps.

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