I sat through the movie as "before or while I drop off to sleep" fare. I stayed awake for the whole thing, which must mean something. However, further consideration led me to conclude Kill Ratio is like the 200 songs that make up the libraries of most commercial radio stations: you've seen (or heard) it before and you're pretty sure where it's going, but you're not sufficiently motivated to switch the station.
Characters are all stereotypical, and none of the actors were recognizable, despite my halting the credit roll at the end to double check. The name of the fictitious eastern European democracy is pretty well buried in the dialogue if it was named at all. We do see the Cyrillic alphabet on some signage.
The suspension of disbelief, which is usually required for 007-ish movies, gets a vigorous workout on this one. Puzzling from the outset is why the madam president of this new democracy is engaged in talks with a telecom company when skirmishes between pro and anti government forces are visible from the hotel where they are being held. She finally gets the picture, but is wounded seriously as she and her motorcade head for safer ground. She is brought back to the hotel comatose where Mr. CIA patches her up, and within a few hours is on her feet to pick up the fight.
Never mind that our CIA operative is Teflon coated, easily vanquishing what seems like dozens of ski-masked soldiers. Side thought -- maybe the masks made it possible to kill the same actors over and over. There several instances where the good guys escape demise when the prudent thing to do would be for their captors to eliminate them, or at least display a much higher degree of wariness.
In the end, the president makes a broadcast to the nation to regain control, bad guys are vanquished, and the soldiers guarding the remaining hotel staff are declared criminals. So what do the soldiers do? They simply hand over their weapons and place themselves at the mercy of those they have terrorized, rather than run. The expected retaliation never occurs.
Sit through the movie if you have time, don't expect a lot, and have nothing productive to do. You won't be disappointed, or thrilled either. Except...the similarity of a movie released in 2016 to the political atmosphere in the US and Europe in December 2019 is a bit eerie.
Characters are all stereotypical, and none of the actors were recognizable, despite my halting the credit roll at the end to double check. The name of the fictitious eastern European democracy is pretty well buried in the dialogue if it was named at all. We do see the Cyrillic alphabet on some signage.
The suspension of disbelief, which is usually required for 007-ish movies, gets a vigorous workout on this one. Puzzling from the outset is why the madam president of this new democracy is engaged in talks with a telecom company when skirmishes between pro and anti government forces are visible from the hotel where they are being held. She finally gets the picture, but is wounded seriously as she and her motorcade head for safer ground. She is brought back to the hotel comatose where Mr. CIA patches her up, and within a few hours is on her feet to pick up the fight.
Never mind that our CIA operative is Teflon coated, easily vanquishing what seems like dozens of ski-masked soldiers. Side thought -- maybe the masks made it possible to kill the same actors over and over. There several instances where the good guys escape demise when the prudent thing to do would be for their captors to eliminate them, or at least display a much higher degree of wariness.
In the end, the president makes a broadcast to the nation to regain control, bad guys are vanquished, and the soldiers guarding the remaining hotel staff are declared criminals. So what do the soldiers do? They simply hand over their weapons and place themselves at the mercy of those they have terrorized, rather than run. The expected retaliation never occurs.
Sit through the movie if you have time, don't expect a lot, and have nothing productive to do. You won't be disappointed, or thrilled either. Except...the similarity of a movie released in 2016 to the political atmosphere in the US and Europe in December 2019 is a bit eerie.