Sometimes it seems like the movie is cleverly parodying action movie tropes–one character will speak in generic, cryptic nonsense and Marshall-Green will react humorously nonplussed. Wannel’s dialog is fun–you can tell this is the guy that writes Specs and Tucker from Insidious–and Marshall-Green’s performance is very good and surprisingly subtle at times.

At other times, the movie seems to be embracing action tropes with open arms–isn’t that refrigerator getting awfully full of dead women?

There are other things that got in the way of me getting fully onboard–a nonbinary character is introduced, which is nice, but the fact that they’re nonbinary is the joke, which sucks. And, of course, it seems like the only time we tell stories about paraplegic people is to cure them, which isn’t necessarily this movie’s fault, but it certainly doesn’t buck the trend.

With a standard plot comes a certain level of predictability that this movie doesn’t do quite enough to shake, but it does put in some fun twists with the “upgrade” plot device, and Marshall-Green sells it well. All in all, I found the movie pretty enjoyable. Don’t go in expecting it to rewrite your worldview, but it’s a fun way to kill 90-ish minutes.