6 Underground surprised me in 2 ways. One is how interesting it was at first. The other way is how it got ruined in the end. Even though I almost liked it, I can definitely see why people hated this movie.

The camerawork is very kinetic and frantic. There are some really good shots here and there and it wasn't as shaky as people were making it out to be.

The story, shockingly, got me interested. People said that it was stupid, but to be honest, it felt like a good set-up with interesting ideas and routes that it could take. We have a dictator who rules with an iron fist, is a terrorist and uses gas attacks, 7 people who attempt to change all of that, one of which is affected by the dictator's actions, a democratic brother, and a plan to have him replace the dictator. Piece all of that together and we could have gotten an interesting story mixed with realistic action and a pretty stable tone.

The action is also really good, despite the absence of logic in some situations. The highlight being the opening car chase, the Hong Kong sequence, and the final fight scene.

The CGI is also really well done to the point where at times, I didn't even notice it.

The characters are also somewhat interesting, more particularly, 1 (Ryan Reynolds), 2 (The girl from Inglorious Basterds), 4 (Ben Hardy)....actually scratch that. All the character in the main team are interesting. I just wished they had expanded on 2's (The spy), 4's (Parkour guy), 5's (The doctor), and 6's (The Driver) backstories a bit so that they tie into the main situation a bit better.

Sadly there is one element that is so bad that it just ruined ALL of the good elements that I had explained above: The Editing. It is all over the place, not only showing a lot of continuity errors, but also ruining the flow of the story, upsetting the pacing, and sometimes even ruining the tone. As such, I felt like the film would have done a lot better if some of the shots were cut out and if the film ran in chronological order.

The comedy also felt out of place with some jokes coming after incredibly serious moments.

Lastly, I also kind of liked Dave Franco as the Driver so I was shocked and disappointed to see him killed off so early. They could have done more with his character.

Overall, this is yet another Michael Bay film with a good premise, a good trailer, and a LOT of promise, that sadly get ruined due to the trashy editing.