Good action in a shallow picture

Rating: 1/10 (16 November 2015)

This movie is beautiful and eye catching but you forget about it the minute you step out of the theater. For me, it was not more than a two and a half hours long savvy advertisement of a watch, a car, a pair of sunglasses and some really good cut suits, you know...one of those advertisements you watch on the Internet and smile to yourself saying...good one! There is almost no plot (no character development and meager justifications why they care for/hate each other), hardly any acceptable dialogue (repeating the same lines, bad guy did not say much and kept mimicking to convince us how bad he actually is), too many clichés (the new young and heartless boss of Intelligence, the medieval looking Morocco and early twentieth Century looking Moroccan people...). The action was good though and the three leads delivered what they could out of their own charisma and good looks. Overall, there was too much wasted talent and potential which made me feel sad soon after I got rid of the hypnotizing load of action. I could have accepted that from any medium scale movie but not a James Bond one, hence my harsh rating of one star.