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The new Amazon streamer tries to resurrect the buddy-action genre with swagger and quips, but ends up mirroring today’s global politics — chaotic, loud, & bickering.

This is Jack Quaid’s year! After a great villainous performance in Companion, he reappears as a lovable everyman with CIPA, out to save the girl he loves. 

Hancock’s directorial debut feels refreshingly different by taking familiar tropes from features such as Terminator, Lolita, or even Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder and blending them all. Though packed with unexpected turns, the biggest twist was ruined by the marketing campaign. The pacing can be a little clunky at times, while Sophie Thatcher gives an extraordinary performance, and Jack Quaid plays a fun, self-centred villain. The cinematography is intimate, and the effects a