When a heist goes wrong, an ex-soldier must mop up the mess – while Jean Reno plays a menacing Frenchman
Model-turned-actor Ruby Rose (Orange Is the New Black, John Wick: Chapter 2), is utterly mesmerising to look at – with her lush lips, perfectly shaped eyebrows and macho tattoos – but so far the jury is very much out on whether she can act more than merely adequately. This action vehicle doesn’t exactly strengthen the case for her defence, although she moves with impressive grace in the actiony bits when required in closeups that show her character, Ali, whupping bad guys’ asses.
Rose is meant to be a former marine, haunted by a botched assignmentthat cost the lives of a family she was protecting. In the film’s present tense, she takes a
Job as a doorman – shouldn’t it be “lobby attendant” or even “doorperson”? – at a posh
New York City building, only to wander accidentally into a heist that goes very wrong.