The Old Guard (2020)
I don't buy these characters. For being hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of years old, nothing about how they act or how they speak sets them apart from any other generic, hardened, special forces, ex-military type character from any other movie. They are in a perpetual state of ill-temperedness, they grumble one cynical sentence at a time, but with stony expressions they all still get glassy-eyed when at a distance they observe a group of children playing... so that we know they still have an inner goodness and warmth which they keep locked away.
BLAHHHHHHHHH! With their special powers, and all of their experience and perspective, they're attitude is little different than a group of "cool kids" at the back of a class. Where is the wisdom? Where is the more clever approach? All they seem to be is a group with an above average ability to kill people, which again doesn't really set them apart from your typical green beret or black ops specialist. They supplement their gun-fu with a Ninja Turtle-like medley of hand-handheld weaponry... whoopdiedoo. You know, it's movies like these that make me go back to Ronin with greater appreciation. In a scene where Sean Bean asks De Niro what his favourite weapon is, and De Niro gives him a look like "huh, grow up"... he just says "it's a toolbox, you put the tools in, I do the job". The idea of having a "favourite" weapon is subject for some immature hot head to obsess over, not a professional. Meanwhile our hero's in The Old Guard are still at the level of attaching their identity to their weaponry.
4/10