The Old Guard Review.

New to Netflix, The Old Guard is a movie based on a comic book. It depicts a story of four immortal warriors who have lived for centuries. Lead by Andy, the oldest of the immortals, she and the other three, Booker, Joe and Nikkie discover that after two hundred years, a new immortal, Nile has come into the fold. And now with a CEO named Merrick of a worldwide pharmaceutical company are hot on their trail, Andy and the others must find Nile and disappear back into the shadows. Unknown to the world. If Merrick along with the help of CIA agent Copley can find them, the future for these five immortals will be extremely bleak.

STARRING:

Charlize Theron as Andy / Andromache of Scythia.

Kiki Layne as Nile Freeman. Former US Marine who served in Afghanistan for the US Marine Core.

Matthias Schoenaert as Booker / Sebastian Le Livre, once a French soldier who fought under Napoleon.

Marwan Kenzari as Joe / Yusuf Al-Kaysani, a Muslim warrior who had participated in The Crusades, as well as Nicky’s lover.

Luca Marinelli as Nicky / Nicoló di Genova, a former Crusader. He and Joe started off as enemies but became lovers after discovering their immortality.

Chiwetel Ejiofor as James Copley. CIA agent grieving the loss of his wife from ALS.

Harry Melling as Steven Merrick, greedy CEO of a pharmaceutical empire.

Van Veronica Ngo as Quynh.

Anamaria Marnica as Dr. Meta Kozak.

Joey Ansah as Keane.

As I have not read the comic, I didn’t have a lot of information to go on. In fact, I had no idea that the comic existed. But after watching this, I am all the more excited to dive in and start reading. Andy, as a character was the most appealing in my eye. Not just because she’s played by Charlize Theron, but because she’s a total badass. She’s in every sense of the word, a one-woman army. And the fact that she wields an axe speaks to me even more since I have a passion for axes myself. “Maybe I was a Viking in a past life”, I don’t know.

I would definitely watch this The Old Guard more than five or six times. I would also highly recommend it to anyone if they wand a couple of hours of good quality action and I certainly give it a solid 8.5/10. There were a couple of flaws in the movie but nothing to seriously complain over.

Thanks for reading and stay safe out there.