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‘Shadow Force’ Review: Two Spies Get Dragged From the Cold in Middling Action Opus
Kerry Washington and Omar Sy play married ex-assassins on the run in a passable popcorn entertainment that needed more wit, style and electricity.
The latest duo to step into similar matching marital bulletproof vests is Kerry Washington and Omar Sy, playing globetrotting “elite special operators” now hiding from their former colleagues in “ Shadow Force.” Shot almost entirely in Colombia, the film’s locations and P. Erik Carlson’s production design are plusses that Juan Miguel Azpiroz’s widescreen cinematography doesn’t fully exploit, providing neither grittiness nor high style to material that could use one or the other. She waxes too earnest for the fairly preposterous premise to bear, hard-selling Kyrah’s tough side one minute, belaboring maternal devotion the next; her prickliness around Isaac makes whatever mutual chemistry brought them together hard to detect.
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