Canary Black

Even for a throwaway action flick, Canary Black stretches any attempt at credibility. Our plot involves Kate Beckinsale as super-spy Avery Graves whose husband (Rupert Friend) is kidnapped. Avery is then blackmailed into stealing a file so secret not even the President of the United States knows what it is. Knowledge isn't a problem for our baddie (Goran Kostić), however, who apparently knows everything about everyone including having access to all kinds of CIA classified records such as Avery's psych profile.

Rather than do anything rational, or even insanely crazy and heroic (like you would find in the absurd but immensely more enjoyable Commando), Avery makes a series of questionable decisions in a plot that revolves more around late reveals and twists than any number of things she does wrong.

Canary Black is an utterly forgettable spy thriller with at least two too many twists and an idiotic ending a film this bad deserves. Others unfortunately slumming it here are the late Ray Stevenson, in one of his final roles, and Saffron Burrows in a role so small she'll be thankful you'll forget she was ever a part of this dumpster fire.

• Title: Canary Black
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