As much craft went into Supergirl, though, the movie doesn’t reach escape velocity. It’s weighed down by lots of odd choices that make it feel decidedly terrestrial, as though the filmmakers were worried they would - ahem - alienate the audience with too much sci-fi weirdness.
Read MoreIn the library of action films, The Old Guard doesn’t really excite and it’s definitely not memorable, but consider it a good-enough entry into Netflix’s ever-expanding library of films you can simply put on the background, or skip to the parts that interest you.
Read More