Fight Club! Unfortunately, Aussie director and former soap star Paul Leyden and first-time writer Joseph Downey’s tale is filled with few genuine laughs, a ploddingly predictable plot and tonally is truly all over the shop. Saccharine sentiment and potentially emotional familial drama sit uneasily alongside lashings of sexual innuendo and extended pummellings. It’s a story that seemingly desperately wants to be a big-screen version of Netflix’s Glow, but instead feels like a bad cocktail of
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It’s sad to see the brilliantly talented Malin Akerman stuck slumming it in this dire direct-to-streaming-services action-comedy.