The Rhythm Section

When it comes to action movies, absurd, suspend-your-disbelief twists can be forgiven if the movie was exciting and propulsive. But what can't be forgiven is dullness.

This movie is just inane.

This film is a mess. It's so grim and inept.

The plot is risible. The action worse. The wait for lady Bond continues.

To describe The Rhythm Section in the musical parlance it employs: The action movie has no sense of tempo, and no melody.

This movie (The Rhythm Section) is devoid of thrills and personality and short on incident and local color.

The editing is weirdly unconventional, drawing out scenes for extra seconds or even minutes where absolutely nothing happens and intercutting dialogue sequences with unnecessary flashbacks or flashforwards.

In the end, [The Rhythm Section] falls into the same tropes it was trying to subvert.

Part Bourne, part Bond, but with none of the vigor or personality of either, “The Rhythm Section” has some good ideas but not enough original ones.

It’s hard to believe the stars of vapid spy thriller The Rhythm Section fell for a script that is so lazily strung together&#59; it’s the cinematic equivalent of a couch potato.