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This movie starts off with a god damn six and a half minute long title / credit sequence ... I think it was telling me not to watch this film ... I should've listened.

Vanquish has a god-awful script that's delivered horribly by all the actors and actresses, it seemed like absolutely nobody wanted to be on set.

It's also filled with probably the ugliest editing i've ever seen in a movie with tons of fading transitions and jarring jump cuts. That combined with gross color grading thats either overly blue, or overly green and yellow that's only comparable to what Mexico looks like in Breaking Bad on steroids.

Audio mixing also seemed to be a problem, some scenes you can hear a knife swinging around or money flipping through a counting machine more than you can hear a person talking.

Vanquish is just horribly made. It's a gross visual experience with an extremely cliché story and terrible acting.

I don't usually like to trash movies like this but holy ... this was bad.

Most scenes with 1 or 2 characters because they could not afford extras CHECK minimal outdoor scenes because they did not bother with licenses and permissions CHECK lots of head and shoulders shots as a substitute for actual movement CHECK garish colors to distract viewers from the lack of value on the screen CHECK and a soundtrack from Hell to try to hide all the above CHECK;

This movie should have been strangled at birth. A pointless, vacuous trip to nowhere in particular, notable only for the tightness of Miss Rose's strides and the fact that Mr Freeman's fall from grace is so absolute that he felt he had to take on this project.

In summary, lots of people shoot at a girl on a motorbike, yet miss their target by a mile, a fate shared by the makers of this pitiful dirge.

Ruby Rose is an eye sore...

This movie is pure trash, they need to vanquish it from existence.. what a waste of money..

... reading the reviews! Thanks to my fellow reviewing Gods, this was a blast!!

Ok, so what happened was this: I am a huge Morgan Freeman fan and when this movie popped up at Netflix I decided to start watching without checking Imdb first. Big mistake, but hey... Morgan Freeman, you know. No need for checking Indb, right? Wrong. So I grabbed a bowl of popcorn and starting watching. I finished the whole bowl even before the opening credits where done. Like at six minutes. Either my bowl was small or the credits where.....waaaaayyyyy too long. And then....finally...the movie started. Three minutes later I was questioning if my time is valuable enough to keep on watching. At that point (9.37 minutes in) I cam here.

Let me do the same thing the rest of the people here did for me. Save me. I only saw the first 9.37 minutes of this movie. It was enough. Believe me. There was somebody writing that this movie should have been strangled at birth. Well, I can't judge the entire movie, just the opening credits and first scene. What I CAN tell you is it should have been strangled there. The movie. Please do yourself a GD favor. Don't even try!!

Why? Seriously, why? Does she have something on someone important? Does she know someone that can green light anything? Did she sign a blood contract with Satan, I mean, seriously, why? She had a few episodes on Orange is the new black, and then major roles. She is getting roles that an actor should have be getting if they were in the business for like 20+ years, so why? Being serious here...

Wait for all the pro ruby rose votes to rock in with a 10 stars!

My god this is bad, some of the worst acting, seems ruby rose's stiff acting even infected morgan freeman!

Dont wast your time.

Seriously, I cannot think of a single reason a renowned actor would take part it this sh**show. He probably owns money to loan sharks or owns a debt to the director or similar. This is a A-class waste of everything you can think of.

Terrible movie from start to finish. The opening credits - what even was that?

I know 2020 was a difficult year to be making movies but there is no excuse for this awful awful film.

Wooden acting, Disjointed plot. Unrelatable characters/

DO NOT waste 90 minutes watching this garbage.

Once again lump of wood ruby rose does her usual abysmal attempt at 'acting'. Who keeps employing her?

Avoid this film at all costs.

I have witnessed some gawd awful films in my time, but this takes the biscuit!

Morgan dear friend, if I'd known you were this hard up, I could have helped!

Sweet Jeebus make it stop.......

Corrupt cop Damon (Morgan Freeman) blackmails former criminal Victoria (Ruby Rose) into rampaging against rival criminal groups.

I hadn't heard of this movie and had a feeling that this is going to be a bad B-movie. Then I see that this has Morgan Freeman. I decided to give this a try. I blame wasting ninety minutes on Freeman. He tricked me. I was also a little intrigued to see what Ruby Rose was doing after Batwoman. It's obvious that the director had watched way too much John Woo. He's trying to do 90's Woo but lacks the skills. He even pulls a homage to doves. This movie really struggles right from the start with two confused boring scenes. It's trying to set up something but the movie really only needs to start with Freeman and Ruby Rose. That's the start and the rest should be her as John Wick or second rate John Wick which is probably the most that could be hoped for. This movie is derivative and flawed.

The opening credits sequence lasts WAYYYYYYY too long, they clumsily tell a backstory through flashes of bad acting and the most pathetic graphics ive seen in at least 3 decades. It looks like a low end cable show from the 90's ABOUT something that happened in the 70's. I had to fight every natural instinct to turn this off DURING the opening credits.... i waited... i watched the WHOOOOOLE thing, so you don't have to. Just a horrible script, and the absolute WORST directing and editing i've ever experienced. I'm astonished that this was ever made, astonished that no one saw what a train wreck this was and shelved it. I'd rather stick my pinky in a pencil sharpener than watch this again.

... obviously it's not about talent in Hollywood since 2020. Original ideas don't exist and we're stuck watching wannabe actors instead of professionals. Guess it beats CGI.

The estimated time of death of this film is around 6 minutes. Cause this is how long it takes for the intro credits to wrap up. They bombard you with music and random cut-ins with lots of titles for almost 6 minutes straight, just think about it, it's like watching a film backward.

So, at the 6 min mark I was done with it (probably as most of the people who tried to watch it). I still gave it some time and fast-forwarded through the scenes feeling searing pain from watching Ruby Rose never bothering to move a single muscle on her face.

As for Morgan Freeman, I hope he has a reason to be there. I mean, he obviously knew what he was getting into.

The film has the feel of a freshman year film school student's first draft. Shows inexperience in every aspect of filmmaking, although the budget didn't seem that low.

And as I've said, I'm more interested in why was this made at all, cause they obviously saw that this doesn't meet any generally accepted film standards. Guess it was just a cash grab.

P. S. I mean, if I was hired for this I'd give up on a moment when the director said - we gotta have a rat vision camera, I FEEL THIS.

Extremely badly shot looks very amateurish, not sure why they took that direction i turned it off after 20 minutes could not take anymore.

Story takes place in one night and I am sure the movie was also shot in one night. Half of the movie is Ruby Rose riding bike. Chase scenes are laughable. I am curious, in this low budget movie how much was Morgan Freeman paid. Is he so desperate for money? Going ahead, I will remember Morgan Freeman for this movie for all the wrong reasons.

5/100

Vanquish is easily the worst movie i'll see in 2021, and will likely be the worst movie i ever see in my life. The script, the acting, the plot, and most of all the awful editing are all at the same quality of a middle school multimedia project. I had no clue what the movie was about half the time, and nearly every character has no importance whatsoever. A truly abysmally bad movie that i'm clueless as to why it was even made and released.

Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis should create a production company where they take all the good actors and put them in the worst movies ever to make them pay the bills when they go bankrupt.

Morgan Freeman was either held at gunpoint to make this film or is massively in debt because I can't figure out any other reason why a seasoned great actor like himself would be a part of this garbage.

First, this stinker had 6:16 of titles that were gawd awful. Even before Ruby Rose shows up, the writing, pacing, and photography show it to be not even a C grade movie. This is worse than the worst Steven Segal movies. Then Ruby Rose shows up and it goes downhill from there. She is barely above reading her lines, and you can almost see in her eyes that she is going through a list: -Say line, whisper last word.

-Smile...now.

-Try to remember what accent I'm supposed to be using.

Is Freeman trying to get out of contract by doing this movie?

I really don't understand why top actor like Morgan Freeman would get involved in a bad film like this. Maybe he really needed the money, more than the character in this movie did.

Bad story, bad dialogue, wooden acting, nonsensible plot. One example: everytime the protagonist-lady enters a place to meet the "bad boss", the boyguards always let her bring her big guns inside so that she would be able to shoot the "bad boss" & shoot the bodyguards as well. What kind of bodyguards are those?

Put a beloved actor(Morgan Freeman) in it then it should be OK, right? Wrong. Should have listened to my inner voice who saw Ruby Rose in it and run screaming. Why does Hollywood continue to hire the talentless excuse for an actor? Quickest way to drop IMDB score...cast Ruby Rose.

Vanquish is a big miss if your in for real hard core never ending action , so let this one slip by. I had a hunch when seeing the mock up backgrounds, extremely straight lines interiors of the freemans house, some strange colorisational beams at you as if you were on a spaceship travel, very daft acting, even from mr freeman, that with all respect should have said no to this c-quality wannabe thriller product, because there are no hold in the story build up, just psychopathetic urban interfacial unterground enterprisal extortionistic visual terror, with a neverending background score that becomes so enervating on the chimes, and doesnt steal the show at all.

Howcome lionsgate does fund project like this i cannot understand, orion was the name of a film studio that went ad undas due to rotten products made on a long row, and i fear that this may be the continuation of of a downspiral turn that lionsgate has undergone lately. There are undertakers around the corner in the name of hulu, netflix and others that want the market share that this film production company has obtained since the start, and they will mercylessly be happy to reel in this one too if the quality of films continous at this low standard.

Because morgan freeman cant save this product, not even as the devil himself in a wheelchair. The battery is dead on empty, and the grumpy old man have hidden the charger away, with a no recommend.

This is the worst directed and written film I've seen in a very long time. I've seen better 5th grade drama class productions.

I'm also pretty sure I've developed Epilepsy from watching the worst cinematography, overuse of horrible high contrast bright flashy colors and filters, and out-of-focus slow-mo and stretched shots.

Literally, anyone with hardly any film experience can do better, and I've seen amateur filmmakers come up with blockbuster results, compared to the mess experienced writer and director George Gallo gave us. And it's such a huge disappointment considering he's written greats such as The Bad Boys franchise. The story was lame, convoluted, predictable and riddled with plot and technical issues. Even the dialogue was so ridiculous, repetitive and childish. Seriously, who watched the final cut and said "that's great, let's go to market"?

*In a Morgan Freeman voice* "Even I couldn't save this film". I feel bad for Freeman, and hope he got paid well for doing this. Ruby Rose was, well, as Ruby Rose usually is, with that Kristen Stewart fixed facial expression. I'm giving this a very generous 3/10, mainly out of pity that Freeman has to keep this mess on his resume.