Six (Ryan Gosling) is one of those shadowy operatives that has no background, no personnel file, no presence so he can do the morally gray work required by the U.S. government. When he finds out that his division is being systematically eliminated by the new CIA chief, Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page), he goes off-grid. Annoyed, Carmichael dispatches psychopathic independent contractor Lloyd Hanson (Chris Evans) to find Six. Lloyd immediately kidnaps the niece (Julia Butters) of Six's previous handler (Billy Bob Thornton) and unleashes every mercenary he can find to run Six to the ground.
Is this a cliched action movie with every trope from John Wick to Jason Bourne? Yes. Is it still watchable? Absolutely. Gosling is funny and charming while still trying to be stoic, Evans and his terrible facial hair gleefully chew scenery, Ana de Armas and Jessica Henwick sigh in exasperation, then get the job done. It's fun and explode-y and stabby. There is also an underlying subtext about generational wealth and the corruption of legacy institutions but we don't have to go into that. It's a summer popcorn flick (from this summer, who knew?) and it's streaming on Netflix.
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