Vanquish

The in-camera gimmick, with Freeman literally phoning it in on Rose's headset, lends a strangely passive, vicarious overlay to much of the action - which is not particularly well-marshalled.

The film's most unintentionally self-aware moment is Damon saying, "I sleep just fine." You'll do that too if forced to sit through Vanquish.

it's a form of actor abuse to see the legendary Morgan Freeman trapped in this relentlessly violent and vapid mess that does offer one lesson to students of cinema in how to do everything calamitously wrong.

Why does any of this matter? Here's a secret: it doesn't. "Vanquish" thoroughly defeats itself.

Vanquish burdens Morgan Freeman with stupid lines and barely gives Ruby Rose a character.

An excess of visual style that attempts to but doesn't quite compensate for the thinness of the story.

The bland band of supporting players and the even more forgettable story (complete with a preposterous ending) are liabilities too big to overcome.

Poorly thought out in every aspect, Vanquish lures you in with recognisable names, only to be disappointed by a story thats terribly conceived and executed in a similar fashion.

Rose has no character to work with, the direction is overstyled and the score is comically expository with super Bad Guy music for bad guys and so on.

A deathly dull, visually repulsive, and stylistically bereft stinker that lacks even the good grace to be unintentionally hilarious.