Alarum

Michael Polish’s film gamely tries to compensate for unspectacular production values with a lot of action -- but its staging is pedestrian at best.

[Stallone's] work here makes his appearance in “The Expendables 4” seem focused and committed by comparison.

Traversing bleakly undifferentiated East European locations, the bullet-riddled plot is a flavorless tossed salad of code names and cleaning crews, drone strikes and shootouts.

A forgettable B-film spy story.

Creatively bankrupt on every level, Alarum is a mindless mess of an action film that goes through the motions until its very lazy and abrupt ending. The performances are never believable in this moronic story about spies fighting over a flash drive.

Alarum is simply a cheap thriller, featuring actors who should know enough to try harder, and a plot executed with such convoluted confusion that you’d never know it was pretty simple, actually.


Whaddya know, another spies off the grid drawn back into action tale. Not sure even the appearance of California ambassador to international box office will wake us up from realizing it comes from one-time indie darling, Michael Polish.

There's a good action movie in this, but it never emerges because everything is so convoluted.

Alarum may have a solid premise and cast, but the fun stops with this subpar action thriller that fails to tap into the talent's potential.

I’d have been happy enough with a movie in which Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, and Sylvester Stallone, presumably bored, team up to shoot legions of identikit henchmen for basically no reason at all. It’s the reason that becomes the problem.