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I thought that Elsa Pataky was OK in this film. She was not great, but she did well enough. Luke Bracey as the villain kind of takes the spotlight for charm, too. But that's as much as I can say that is positive about the film. The plot is ludicrous, from the main story to the smallest details that they get so wrong. The acting, other than what I mentioned, is bad. Some characters are completely useless, you see them then they just vanish. The dialogue is clunky. The budget must have been minuscule, too. And producer Chris Hemsworth's cameo in it is pretty much offensive. Not more than the ending, though.

What is it about? A female U. S. captain who speaks English with a heavy Spanish accent is reassigned to a nuke interception station in the middle of the ocean as punishment for metooing a three star general. There she has to pretty much singlehandedly foil an assault by hostile forces that want to nuke the U. S. In the middle, we get to talk about the state of the nation and touch on important things as sexism and red neck racism.

The problem with the film is that, other than the main plot of bad ass woman, fails on every other level. The idea that the continental U. S. is defended by just two stations that can be taken while no one can get to them in time is stupid, but let's roll with it. The idea that one could sink one of the stations at any time, but chooses to burn through two thick steel doors in order to burn the circuits with acid is even dumber, but OK, the guy has a burning fetish. Having not one, but two different ways in the command center other than the door after literally saying that's the only way in an out is indefensible, but having the villains taking those paths in only randomly and ignoring them otherwise is pathetic. And the piece of resistance: having more villains than there are people who are not on a military platform.

Perhaps the worst part is that it touches on some things: the greed that makes people harm themselves, cultism and sexism and racism in the army, the inherent weakness of regular people who are invested in the lives of others. But then it bungles those things up with a redemption story that validates business as usual and relegates the hero to another thankless job that she is, of course, thankful for. And this film is now number 1 on Netflix, which pretty much explains why the company is dying.

It's good to know that nepotism is alive and well in Hollyweird. Well, if you hadn't spotted that the Gyllenhaals and Nick Cage etc, you can certainly see it here with Chris Hemsworth's wife getting the leading role in this stunning clown script of a production. Some treasures to watch out for:

1. The terrorists get onto one of the highest security US bases as cleaners?

2. The terrorists decide to try to cut through a muiti-inch thick steel blast door using a blow torch, to access the control room, despite the blast door having a plastic window in it that would simply melt.

3. The near impenitrable control room happens to have a wide hatch in the door that can simply be popped open, and worse, a ladder leader up to two doos that are about as heavy as those on the top of a typical household washing machine, with NO LOCKS that simply open on to the helicopter landing deck!

4. Mrs Hemworth, having been shot through the arm, decides she can swing across the monkey bars that oddly seem to exist on the under side of the oil rig style platform, and she manages to perform this amazing and impossible feat, not only swinging from one bar to the next with just one arm, but also making it across a large 6ft gap - I'm pretty sure there isn't a gymnast alive that could do this.

5. It turns out that the US's most advanced missile defence system can simply be connected to a local personal laptop and all of the code downloaded to it so you can then launch the entire missile defence system from it. Yep, no real security protocols, you just plug and play and fire missiles into space.

6. The terrorist leader loves monologues.

7. Motivation, now label me excessively critical, but if you land 15 nukes on the US and wipe out major US cities, then the value of the US dollar will drop through the floor. SO why are the terrorists boasting about getting paid in dollars if they pull the heist off? The idiocy level here is huge.

8. The baddies want to transmit all of their evil doing around the world onto every TV screen possible letting everyone watch as they launch nukes to destroy the US, at no point are they concerned that they might become wanted by any other part of NATO.

9. Mrs Hermsworths grand plan to thwart the terrorists is to let them get in and take over the control room then take them out. The Nerd Game modelling mathematician assisting the president gives this just a 14% chance of success - really? He did that in his head? A plan that makes no sense at all. But, tied up and unarmed Mrs Hemsworth basically beats up and shoots everybody dead.

In sum, if a movie this bad had been proposed in the 1980s even Steven Seagal and Van Dam would have turned it down as a joke. This movie is so silly it makes TEAM America World Police look like a documentary.

There are simply no redeeming elements to this movie. The script is so bad It takes a dump in your brain. The acting looks like they simply filmed the first script read through rehearsal.

After this, I just don't think there is any future for Mrs Hemsworth on either the big or small screen. Interceptors is pretty much the Armageddon of her career.

My advice, watch this movie when you are high or drunk and just imagine it's a Monty Python film, you'll enjoy it more that way.

Poor acting. #metoo stereotypes. Not credible. The the story is so incredible. If I had to pay for a movie ticket to see it, I'd be a little pissed off afterwards.

As writer and director, this is Matthew Reilly's first ever dabble into filmmaking. I have to admit, his directing was spot on, and the premise of his story pretty original - with some nice twists, but of course there were cliches, and some plot and technical issues. But he's allowed rookie mistakes as a newb.

The pacing was decent for the comfortable 99 min runtime. The cinematography was great, and the sets and location very unique and interesting. Even the score, for a B film, surprisingly wasn't overbearing and unfitting.

Considering Reilly has no experience in directing his cast, they all performed pretty decent, although I have to say, casting Elsa Pataky was a huge mistake. She did not fit the role whatsoever, and her accent (compared even to her dads non-existent accent) became very annoying and made her tough-soldier act unconvincing. How would she even be so high up in the ranks barely speaking proper English? I mean any other actress would've been more believable, as long as their broken English wasn't as bad as hers. It was so bad, I though the twist would be that she's one of the undercover RU's. That aside, even her tough-gal act was unbelievably cheesy, especially taking on guys three times her weight. Poorest casting choice I've seen in a while. It was awesome though seeing Chris Hemsworth as the TV salesman.

Considering this is Reilly's first ever filmmaking credit, I'd say he did better than some film I've seen lately from seasoned filmmakers. So to the wanna be critics who only know the number one out of ten, learn how to review properly. The production value alone makes this easily at least a 5/10, but it's a well deserving 7/10 from me, and could've easily been more with a better lead and some tweaks in the screenplay. Nevertheless, I applaud Mr. Reilly for his first film.

What a load of rubbish! This movie sucked. The storyline was ridiculous & then suspend your belief that a tiny woman can deck all these huge men, swing one handed on monkey bars & have a gutteral European accent but is supposedly good old American GI Jane. Please!

Not to mention a poorly disguised Chris Hemsworth as a hippy TV salesman. Was that supposed to be tongue in cheek?

Then there's the Russian command giving subordinates the option about who to kill? As if!

Terrible acting, predictable storyline, terrible CGI, predictable outcome. Not worth your time.

It is hard to imagine that conversation when the producers decided to move on with this script ans cast.

Maybe someone lost a bet, I do not know...

What I know is that things as stupid as try to breach in through a 100mm steel door cutting the metal... when the door has a huge a glass window; or deciding to "use acid" to crash the controls of the missiles instead of blowing them up...

I could go on, but I strongly believe this was a test for a comedy movie that went wrong, so it does not make sense.

The worst part (and it is really difficut to select one among so many other good options) is the completely dumb and simplicist sexual harassment motto to support the main role.

Simply ABSURD MOVIE. Cannot wait to read more critics.