Friday, 17 April 2020

VOD: Code 8 (dir: Jeff Chan, 2019)

"Normal people have always hated us.  They just used to do it with a smile on their face."

The fact that any crowd-funded movie reaches completion is usually to be applauded, but this near-future superpowers/actioner proves to be routine to the point of dull.  The limited effects are realised on-screen satisfactorily, and the idea that superpowered people are the underclass resorting to illegitimate and criminal activity has potential interest, but with only one central plot-point (effectively, a heist) it is drawn pretty thinly.  The reliably adequate Amells (Stephen and Robbie) do surprise by keeping their shirts on and competing to see which one can drop the most f-bombs, but really there is little of interest in this standard fare.

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