Courier Poison

The Courier (2019) is the sort of standard-looking action film that is always being suggested to me by various automated systems. Since it stars Olga Kurylenko, who I've kind of been binging, I decided to give it a go.

Right off, in a credits montage, we learn that the Courier is a sort of masked vigilante, a female motorcycle courier that is always anonymously delivering evidence of crimes, etc. Then we proceed to the next crime. Gary Oldman is rich and influential criminal, now under house arrest in his New York mansion. He can only be brought down by a single witness, Amit Shah. Shah is in London under heavy guard. He is taken to a fortified safe room, where he will testify by video link.

The trial is taking place, and the judge gives the prosecution an hour to set up the link and deliver the testimony. A courier - yep, Olga Kurylenko - arrives with a case containing the encryption and masking device necessary. But it turns out to contain cyanide gas, killing everyone in the room - except the bad guys in the police detail, who put on gas masks. Also, Kurylenko, because she thinks fast and grabs a mask off a bad guy, then another for Shah. And so they take off.

They get as far as the parking garage, which has been put on lock down by William Moseley, Oldman's man in London. He keeps assuring Oldman by phone that the "package" has almost been eliminated. He sends a team into the garage.

This takes up the first, say, 20 minutes of this 1-1/2 hour movie. The rest takes place entirely in the garage, with Shah hiding, and Kurylenko committing mayhem on the baddies, as the clock ticks down. This timer is not only the court requiring testimony in an hour, but also Oldman demanding that Moseley just kill the witness and the stupid courier. 

I'm surprised this wasn't advertised as a "bottle show", a single location extravaganza, like, for ex, Free Fire. But I have to say, that movie was pretty good. This one, much less so. It's pretty much an action exercise, done well enough, but with nothing extra. I wouldn't have given it the 10% Tomatometer rating that I found out it has, but I wouldn't go much higher.