I thought that the filming was incredible. Great shots and great edits. The story was the typical chase and crime thriller. Compared to other recent films, I thought this story had more depth to it than say Without Remorse. I enjoyed that the plot focused on the character rather than the detailed politics. It kept it more relatable. Really a pleasure to watch and just enough details to keep you interested. There was realistic violence versus the over the top.

So many things didn't make sense or just was poor writing.

See below, all spoilers.

Why would they attack Beckett at the abandoned house when there was no evidence linking the police officer or that lady to any crime? And then, when he was lured out of hiding, why try to shoot him from a distance when I was going to come right up to them?

How do so many older people in rural Greece speak English. That was a detail so unlikely.

Shot in his shoulder and he jumps off a cliff using a tree to pad his fall? I don't know if anyone would really attempt or consider something so unimaginable.

So you're in traffic coming up to a police roadside check where they are going through cars, in heavy traffic, Beckett gets out of the car bloodstains on his clothes, jumps over a barrier, and no one seeing this alerts the police.

While being led to a likely death by Tynan the embassy contact, Beckett was able to subdue him enough to escape the vehicle and run away. Why not tazer him again, tie him up, and then get all the answers as to why people are after you and why he just tried to kill you???

Tynan is chasing Beckett, and Beckett looks around for something to surprise him with, and picks up a fluorescent light to hit Tynan with? Really, off all things.

Beckett umps off the third story parking garage, perfectly timing when the car will come out, while just being shot in the stomach, recovering from multiple stab wounds, broken finger, previously being shot in the shoulder the day before. He was able to turn his body around mid flight to land facing the opposite direction that he jumped, wrestled with the cop who was driving the car, who himself was just shot in his leg but acted like he was dying from it. Beckett was able to punch him into submission while out of the car?

Seriously, this movie was bad.

What a nauseating beginning to what turns out to be a perfectly mediocre action movie. After going on for some 10 minutes, much more of the eponymous Beckett and his girlfriend's lovey-dovey, cutesy-wootsy foreplay, and I would've been ready to run their car off the road. These American vacationers (well, I guess Alicia Vikander is Swedish, but whatever) in Greece display some of the most irritating intimacy ever filmed, I swear--talking nonsense to each other, fondling each other while driving, drawing a heart on him--grown adults acting like horny teenagers.

Otherwise, and despite what the extra-T "Beckett" might conjure regarding more thoughtful fare involving a Thomas or a Samuel Becket, this "Beckett" is a good alternative for anyone who enjoyed watching John David Washington running around in "Tenet" (2020), but would rather not engage with a complicated narrative, or those who liked the conspiratorial intrigue of him in "BlacKkKlansman" (2018), but wished the politics of it were vague to the point of irrelevance. Communists and fascists, oh my. An old-fashioned American-savior narrative, but without the white guilt, an unwitting wrong-man mystery solved during panting breaks in between fighting and chasing. The scenery is nice, though, and, granted, a movie that begins by prophesizing the hero at the ruins of the Oracle of Delphi can't be all bad, although grand, Ancient Greek tragedy this isn't. Watch the "John Wick" shoot-'em-ups for that, seriously.

There's also the debatable appeal of Washington's hero not being without personal guilt and being mostly realistically human--limited by injuries, fatigue, panic attacks, an' all. Yet, he still ends up doing a Batman in a parking garage. If Washington keeps this up, Marvel or DC is going to cast him in one of their superhero burgers.