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Incoming (2018)
Forget this exists
Seriously, there's nothing good about this movie. The plot and script are sensationally bad. I'm a huge fan of Scott Adkins but I don't know what he's even doing in this movie. I'm pretty sure he just had a free Tuesday and he owed someone a favour. There is not one single positive to take from this, not even the fight choreography which Adkins films have been noted for.
In short, do not waste your time. It's kind of similar to Lockout with Guy Pierce and Maggie Grace but somehow manages to make that movie look like a maserpiece in comparison.
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Pretty dreadful
Let's be clear, this isn't a good movie. If I were to stretch I could say the action scenes were good, however they are ruined by terrible editing and over reliance on CGI which makes them impossible to follow. Cotillard, Irons and Fassbender do their best, but the script is total garbage and doesn't even make sense half the time (they have a facility full of former assassins but all the guards have are knives and batons? This could have quite easily been a B movie, buried to a DVD release and never heard from again. Instead it's had millions spent on it, and still sucks.
One of the most compelling parts of the assassins creed series is the amazing locations and the references to true historical events. Instead this film makes very little reference to that to the point where you've no real idea what the hell is going on when it shifts to the events in Spain and the scatter gun approach to hazy CGI and almost fanatic devotion to shadowy lighting means there's nothing worthwhile to pay attention to visually either.
This could have quite easily been an above average film, or at least a visual spectacle but it doesn't come close to either.