If the Russo Brothers are involved you know you are going to get, lots of pointless CGI, boring kinetic fight scenes, main characters that are barely touched by said fight scenes and an almost facistic disregard for civilian life. What you are not going to get, is a plot that holds together, believable characters, decent direction (other than stringing together action sequences), believable scripts and half decent acting. And in fairness this absolutely delivers in a, mean, empty, horrible way which is not entertaining and has no value. Let's just take the opening set up; our two heroes (working for a super secret spy organisation that is vastly funded, has agents everywhere that no one knows about and is arrogantly protecting humanity from itself) are on a high speed train to extract an attache case of enriched uranium from bad guy - who walks around with enriched uranium in a briefcase?! Anyway, the deal goes bad (duh!) and the compartment of civilians are killed off with barely a blink, then we have long drawn out kinetic martial arts and bullet heavy fight scene between about a dozen bad guys and our two leads which not surprisingly they win, both have cuts and bruises and the female a bullet in the leg - has anyone seen what damage a hi powered round does to flesh? But it's all a ruse, dying bad guy initiates a bomb which rips apart the carriage in a ball of flame, sending the whole train off the mountain (it's the Alps remember) and into what becomes a burning lake; more unmourned civilians but not our two heroes, they emerge alive! After this it only gets worse, male suffers amnesia but has happy ever after family life on ranch in the clean mountain air of wherever USA until his old life is revealed to him by a guy who kidnaps him and his family at gunpoint and shows him a solitary video clip -what?!! Female winds up handcuffed to a bed recovering from having the bullet removed by random creepy guy who she beats and stabs to death when he tries it on - remember, handcuffed and suffering leg trauma, and then heads to Spain also suffering from amnesia. It actually gets worse but after two episodes I was done, pure garbage, please don't bother.
Review of Citadel
