Peacock’s prequel to the Keanu Reeves-starring action-movie series features a whole lot of boring High Table assassin mythology and not much more
The third and final episode, at least, aims for wall-to-wall combat, as Winston’s forces attempt an extremely hostile, in-person takeover of the hotel. Coolidge, Ward, and Simmons previously worked together on the streaming comedy, whose action set pieces had an anarchic, borderline cartoon feel to them. That approach largely carries over to.
came up with on its own. Similarly, the self-consciously macabre nature of some of the killers — the Adjudicator wears a plastic mask with a lipstick print over the disfigured lower half of her face, while Mark Musashi and Marina Mazepa play creepy, possibly incestuous, almost certainly superhuman assassin twins — doesn’t feel that far removed from some of the movies’ secondary bosses. But on the whole, the show comes across as too pleased with itself, and/or too eager to please.
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