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In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.

Boasting the sort of premise and script you’d expect from a 90s actioner starring Jean-Claude Van Damme or Dolph Lundgren, Mikael Håfström’s (The Rite) sci-fi combat movie  is a glossy, overblown 20th Century throwback with  impressive 21st Century visuals.

Drone pilot Harp (Damson Idris – Black Mirror) can’t follow orders, resulting in the deaths of US forces. Rather then being court-martialled he’s partnered with Anthony Mackie’s (Altered Carbon) Leo, an android super soldier. Together they buddy up to take on Russian baddy Victor Koval (Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbaek) who plans to use an old school missile silo to attack the United States.

Cue an awful lot of violent action scenes, with some well-rendered robot soldiers and scenes of carnage. Good use is made of the Budapest location shooting, its Brutalist architecture standing in for a Soviet state. The abandoned Kelenfold Power Plant is also put to good use, amplifying the scale of this movie, but it’s just all too long and predictable.

Verdict: If you’re prepared to power down your brain for two hours, you could be entertained by the flashy hardware and crash-bang aesthetic of this Netflix premiere, just try to overlook how jingoistic and silly it is. 6/10