‘The Old Guard 2’ Review: Charlize Theron Leads Her Team of Immortals in Another, Lesser Battle

The Old Guard 2 review – Charlize Theron’s delayed Netflix sequel is an incomplete mess

Five years after the first film came out, a misshapen action fantasy follow-up arrives with a baffling cliffhanger endingEven with our thick-of-Covid desperation for anything that felt big at a time when life felt too small, there was more to The Old Guard than the average churned out Netflix mockbuster. Released in the hell of July 2020, it came with the requisite boxes ticked (big star, international locations, franchisable setup) but felt clo…

‘The Old Guard 2,’ Like Its Superheroes, Feels Ancient

So there are these immortals, y’see — folks who have been around for millennia, and are capable of healing from any wound, regenerating any severed limb. Cut off a finger? No problem! A group of these gifted, unkillable ass-kickers have banded together and, led by a centuries-old Scythian warrior named Andromache (Charlize Theron), will take on the dirtiest of mercenary jobs for a price. There’s also Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), who fought in …

‘The Old Guard 2’ Review: A Fun but Disposable Netflix Sequel Proves That Some Action Franchises Weren’t Built to Live Forever

An uncommonly credible Netflix actioner about a team of immortal mercenaries who sell their skills to the highest bidder, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Old Guard” was an oasis in the desert when it dropped on Netflix at the height of the pandemic, but I’d be lying if I said that it’s really stuck with me over the last five years. And yet, there’s one detail of its story that I haven’t been able to shake — a character fate so grim that it made liv…

‘The Old Guard 2’ Review: Charlize Theron Leads Her Team of Immortals in Another, Lesser Battle

“The Old Guard 2” opens with one of those “extravagant” violent preludes — in this case, the lit-like-a-Swiffer-commercial Netflix version — that’s trying to be like something out of an old James Bond movie: a sequence in which the over-the-top quality is linked to how little we’re told about what’s actually going on. Andy (Charlize Theron), in sunglasses and dark hair, is leading her team ­— I call them the I-Team, because they’re immortal and …

'The Old Guard' recap: What to remember from 'The Old Guard' before...

It's been a long five years, so here's what you missed from the first Old Guard movie.