Renegades review: Macho, mindless mayhem
RENEGADES is the kind of gung-ho malarkey you don’t often see these days.
Renegades is a throwback to the days of The A-Team and the Dirty Dozen
Macho, mindless mayhem, it is a throwback to the days of The A-Team and the Dirty Dozen.
US Navy Seals are on a peace-keeping mission in the Sarajevo of 1995 when friendly local Lara (Sylvia Hoeks) informs them that $300million of looted Nazi gold lies at the bottom of a nearby lake. She wants the prize to help rebuild her country, they want the loot to line their pockets.
The band of brothers undertakes their death-defying heist amid locals’ flying bullets and their own matey banter.
Renegades is hard to take seriously but there is one bright spot as Whiplash Oscar-winner JK Simmons drops in as a sarcastic, tough-talking commanding officer whose bark is much worse than his bite.