This isn't high art, it's certainly not Oscar bait or even trying to be tongue in cheek...this is a blatantly bloody and violent thrill ride with little exposition and a single purpose: gratuitous violence with no deeper meaning.

If you watch this for any other reason, be prepared for copious disappointment. No nuance or subtlety, just a murder ballet for the masses.

I predict that as is the current trend, that the audience will love/like it while the critics lambast it...shows the growing irrelevance of the professional critic as their disconnect with the audience grows.

Fun Fun Fun put your brain in a jar and sit back and enjoy a well directed well photographed great locations and a bunch of actors having fun hamming it up with their roles . If you want Shakespeare watch Shakespeare but if you want some fun here's the right movie. Remember other similar movies that received rave reviews John Wick, Red well this is in the same vein a retired assassin being hunted down . So sit a enjoy the fun and action and stop being so WOKE

A bunch of goofs are about to kill some rich guy somewhere in his mansion. Why it takes 5 people to kill some completely unprotected guy who knows. Then we meet Vizla, another killer part of this outfit called Damocles. He's taking care of some business with his accountant. Vivian who sort of manages the killers gives Vizla his...yes...his "One Last Job" (TM) before retirement. He "reluctantly" agrees of course, travels to Belarus and nearly gets himself killed because the whole thing was actually a setup. Back in the US, Vizla goes home to his Montana cabin where does...basically nothing. He has nightmarish flashbacks of killing some people in a car. There's a girl living conveniently by herself next door who is beyond traumatized. Eventually...finally...they start talking and he helps her out with stuff.

We meet the boss of Damocles, some nasty fellow named Blut. In order to avoid paying retirement he's having all his soon-to-retire employees whacked by the goofs. Why the goofs/Vivian don't wonder about their own predicament who knows. So now he has Vivian order the goofs to go after VIzla who has hidden his tracks well. They have a hard time finding him but eventually make it to Montana where they attack him, but he's too good and saves himself. That forces goofs to kidnap the neighbor Camille somehow knowing that Vizla will go after her. Which he does and that gets him captures and tortured by Blut. Still he manages to escape and now has to again try to rescue Camille, take out Vivian, Blut, and his army of goons. Eventually we learn what's up with the flashbacks and learn a secret about Camille.

There's plenty of delightful violence and even some nudity. The story works well. Acting is very good throughout. Ruby O. Fee is lovely and Katheryn Winnick steals the show as always. Cinematography is nice and colorful when it comes to Damocles and awful and colorless in the Vizla scenes. As with most movies these days, this one too is a bit longer than necessary, but the enthusiastic violence and action keep things entertaining.