The movie "Immortal Guard" is a boring and unnecessary adventure that doesn't have one action-worthy action scene in medicine • No rhythm, no tension, no momentum

• Charlize Theron in The Immortal Guard

Netflix continues to miss out on a blank cover with their action movies. This time it's about "The Immortal Guard," a dreary and unnecessary adventure starring warrior princess (and Oscar winner) Charlize Theron. 

As usual, on paper it actually sounds nice and promising. Theron, who has already proven her impressive abilities as a skull-crusher in films like "Furious Max: Road of Fury" and "Atomic Bomb," embodies Andy - an anguished justice warrior led by an elite unit whose warriors can never die. From there, her gang gets into a deadly ambush organized for them by a treacherous intelligence man (Chevy Agiofour), and at the same time, it turns out that somewhere in Afghanistan is a kindly naval warrior who has just realized that she too has been blessed with eternal life.

So Andy and her friends go to Afghanistan to kidnap their favorite warrior and join her in their task force, and of course, even with the treacherous intelligence man, they have to close an account. Because what was he thinking to himself? That Charlize will forget and forgive? Don't make her laugh. Even if we ignore the fact that "The Immortal Guard" is a shameless imitation of "The Eternal Man" (with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery), the film by director Gina Prince-Breitwood ("Love and Basketball") is mostly a sleeping pill. Theron and her humorless friends do not cease to exist in grief and existential heaviness (this is how life seems to be forever), and in a long line of difficult scenes to succeed, they also do not stop talking, telling and explaining uninteresting things to their new recruits.

And what about the action, you ask? Well, it is almost non-existent, and even when it does, it is far from something worthy of your attention. On the one hand, the director does collaborate here with the combatants responsible for "John Wick." But in the same breath, Prince Breitwood (which is her first action movie in her story) fails to organize even one sequel that is not terribly generic. No pace, no tension, no momentum, no momentum. 

And things get even more ridiculous when it turns out that the "main evil" facing our heroes is embodied by British actor Harry Melling - who is best known for playing Dudley Darsley, the spoiled and unbearable cousin of Harry Potter. Let's just say it's a little hard to take him seriously.

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all these flaws might have dissipated if only the charismatic and talented Theron had come to the set with murder in his eyes and a knife between his teeth. But what will I tell you, throughout the movie she mostly looks like someone who rolled out of bed a second ago, like someone who hasn't had the first coffee of the morning yet. It doesn't seem to interest her at all, and I don't think I've ever seen her so indifferent and bored. It's hard not to be identified.

"The Immortal Guard," Netflix

Score: 4