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6 Underground

It follows a group of people who fake their deaths and decide to form a vigilante team in order to stage a coup d'état against a ruthless dictator. It follows a group of people who fake their deaths and decide to form a vigilante team in order to stage a coup d'état against a ruthless dictator. It follows a group of people who fake their deaths and decide to form a vigilante team in order to stage a coup d'état against a ruthless dictator.

Michael Bay
Paul Wernick
Rhett Reese
Ryan Reynolds
Mélanie Laurent
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
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41 Metascore
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Trivia At a budget of $150 million, this is the second most expensive film ever produced by Netflix, following Martin Scorsese 's The Irishman (2019) which was budgeted at $175 million.
Goofs During the opening car chase, there are several scenes where the green Alfa Romeo will have damage on the sides - but in between shots, there is no damage. The same goes with Six's hat: on or off.

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Typical michael bay film.

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December 13, 2019 (United States)
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United Arab Emirates
Switzerland
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Budapest, Hungary (Location)
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$150,000,000 (estimated)
Runtime 2 hours 8 minutes
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‘6 Underground’ Review: Action by the Numbers

Ryan Reynolds plays a billionaire who’s part Deadpool, part Elon Musk and all Michael Bay hero in this relentless action movie.

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By Glenn Kenny

If the B-movie director Andy Sidaris were alive today, he’d be pretty ticked off about “6 Underground,” now streaming on Netflix. In 1979, Sidaris, whose low-budget actioners were generously cast with Playboy Playmates who shot guns and shed their tops with diligent reliability, made “Seven,” in which a master assassin deployed a team of seven specialized killers to take out drug traffickers in Hawaii.

“6 Underground,” the budget of which could probably have funded at least 500 Sidarises, stars Ryan Reynolds as a self-ghosted billionaire in charge of a team of five other espionage specialists out to “do something” about “the evil in this world.”

Directed by Michael Bay with his customary fast-cutting, low-angle-semi-circling-camera, huge-destruction-of-real-and-simulated-property style, “6 Underground” isn’t a wholly blatant Sidaris rip. For instance, Bay flirts with female nudity, as usual, but never crosses the line. The R rating here is earned with blood and gouged eyeballs.

Reynold’s character is like Deadpool filtered through Elon Musk, if Elon Musk were cool, or “cool.” But his performance feels a little disinterested. Hardly matters. The movie opens with a high-speed car chase during which one of the team has bullet-extraction surgery in the back seat. And that’s almost 20 minutes right there.

Engineering a coup in a geopolitical hot spot so vaguely rendered it could be Middle Eastern or South Asian, the gang performs a “Penthouse Extraction” (sounds like what 1970s teen boys did with the magazines their dads hid in the garage). This involves compromising the integrity of an infinity pool with extreme prejudice and then, parkour, parkour, parkour.

When it comes to turning up action to 11, Bay is incorrigible. Not just with sound and fury; there are genuinely eccentric innovations here. There’s certainly not a whole lot of recognizable humanity, but hey, that’s why there’s “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”

6 Underground

Rated R for blood, gouged eyeballs, and much more gore. Running time: 2 hours 7 minutes.

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6 Underground Reviews

At the end of the day, it is doing too much. The political commentary feels incredibly shallow and the plot is so barely there making it hard to follow and the heist confusing...I really, really wanted to like 6 Underground but I just can’t.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 21, 2023

The structure is poorly assembled and every character is given very little emotional depth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Jun 4, 2022

There's a method to Bay's madness, and you'll find it crammed somewhere in-between his cuts by the millisecond and swooping low-angle camera movements.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 22, 2022

Did Michael Bay invent World Cinema or did the world just copy him? The spectacle is savage, the metacommentary delightful, and the pace bloodthirsty though it runs long.

Full Review | Original Score: 80/100 | Jan 14, 2022

I am not sure who this is for, but anyone who has the stamina to make it all the way through the end of it deserves to be eligible for financial compensation.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2021

Bay's clumsy but visually impressive movie should partly sate anyone waiting for the superior thrills and spills of the next Fast & Furious outing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 11, 2021

The choreography and orchestration is brilliant when you take a step back, and an exhausting adrenaline rush as you take it in.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 2, 2021

If you want mindless action, 6 Underground delivers the goods. Don't expect the film to be intellectually stimulating or dramatically satisfying. If you are, you have never seen a Michael Bay movie before.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 23, 2020

Bar a couple of ridiculous sequences that stand out for their colourful design and audaciousness, the film is simply too aimless to find much of a reason to care beyond the over-stylised film-making.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2020

6 Underground is the kind of film that considers a nun giving the middle finger to be the height of edgy humour.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 17, 2020

In the moments that connect the action, 6 Underground becomes one of the worst, most cringeworthy movies of the last few years.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2020

A scattered grab bag of images and noises.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 30, 2020

6 Underground is Mountain Dew in cinema form, bursting with energy and ridiculous ideas that is occasionally entertaining but mostly just exhausting.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 17, 2020

It's not clever. It's not classy. He thinks it is. But it's bold and tough, and you will respect the awesome might of military technology, else be visited in the night by wicked-rad army ninjas in stealth Blackhawks...

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Jan 8, 2020

This is a terrible action movie that utilizes Michael Bay's worst instincts and none of his best.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 3, 2020

This is indeed a Michael Bay movie, and it has no shame about that. It's utterly insane-and an absolute blast.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2020

This is about as optional as it gets...it's not taking up big screens for "real cinema," but it's just there for people who know they enjoy this type of thing. It's very transparent.

Full Review | Dec 30, 2019