6 Underground (2019 Michael Bay) is awful

Yep, it was horrible, it almost felt like a parody of action movies at times (in an unitentional way). Just the opening car chase alone. There are these extreme slow-mo shots that look like they came out of a bad 2000s fashion commercial. The writing is terrible with 'clever' references and quips that are so cringey that I almost couldn't resist the urge to turn the movie off at times. Like what TF are f.e. those eye ball and Spice Girls jokes in the opening sequence. In what universe does that even resemble comedy. It's like aliens first came across the human race and tried to explain what human comedy is after 5 minutes of observing it. Wait, let me correct that. It's like Bay never aged further than a 5 year old who thinks poop and pee jokes are the funniest thing in the world. And then we have those horrible music choices, like holy sh*t how bad can your soundtrack be. It also feels like Bay was finally given an R-rating and had no idea how to use it in terms of making the movie stronger, but only thought 'yeah, here's some blood, here's some gore, I'm so edgy look at me go'.

It's unfortunate, because after watching the trailer I hoped this would be a return to his previous slightly less mediocre form, but this might be the most Bayiest Michael Bay movie and I don't mean that in a positive way. It's never as offensively awful as Revenge of the Fallen, but it's still pretty bad. As the movie goes on it improves a bit in terms of story, but everything just becomes this big boring action blur. I said it after watching 'London Has Fallen' and I'll say it again here, "It's really impressive when someone can make action scenes this boring, but they did it, they found a way". At least it looked like the actors really had a blast shooting this (Ryan Reynolds was especially good) and, while badly edited, directed etc., the action setpieces on their own are quite impressive so shout out to everyone on the special effects and stunt team. It's these two things that carry the movie to my 3/10 rating, but wow, I didn't expect this to be this bad. I haven't seen that many bad movies this year so I'm not sure where it'll end up eventually, but as of now it's definitely in my top 5 worst movies of the year (together with The Perfect Date, IO, Rim of the World & Replicas).

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I see your point here and I basically agree. but when someone says 'bad acting' it's generally not true since in those cases it's usually just average-ish and average is not exactly 'bad'.

I would say the acting was more average with Ryan Reynolds being thrown in there in a attempt to get people watching it. but if your dissing Ryan Reynolds(?)... that's basically what he does in other movies like Deadpool etc. it's his schtick. the rest of the cast was more generic than anything else. like could have been better but easily could have been worse.

p.s. but you did say the movie was awful and I think you could easily find worse in a typical year, even of it's action movie type. but I guess on a positive note, we both agree it's a Thumbs Down

I know, a bit of poor phrasing on my part. What I meant to say is that this was the first enormous budget he has been given in a long time with an R-rating that would allow him to pull of the large scale R-rated SFX that he used in this movie. Both of his most recent R-rated movies, 13 Hours and Pain & Gain combined cost less than half of this movie. So the point that I was trying to get across is that this feels like the first time in a long time (if ever) that he's been able to do an R-rated movie with a Transformers-like budget and to me it just felt like he had no idea what to do with it. Also, under Netflix I think (I don't know for sure) that he had way more freedom than with most other studios, which made some of his bad filmmaking aspects (imo of course) come out way more now that they're almost unfiltered. Or at least that's what it felt like watching the movie.

While not on Foxs sex appeal scale 10 years ago I find Adria Torres to be rather hot.

It was directed by Michael Bay so I knew it'd be dumb & loud with lots of explosions . What took me out was the high collateral damage and disregard for human life in this lol. Again, I knew going into it that Bay directed it but you'd think the heroes would have been a bit more likable and thoughtful about hurting innocent life.
The magnet scene on the boat was probably the best thing about this shit movie and while Reynolds had some good one liners thru out the film, I'd love for him to get back to being in serious dramas sometime in the near future (like he did in Buried).

At least James Franco's little twerp of a brother was killed early on in the film. Seriously can't stand that dude.

5/10

That sounds horrible and racist unless it was intended to be a joke.