Though it’s positioned in the early days of the summer movie reason, Shadow Force winds up as an unintentional advertisement for staying home.

Carnahan’s without his usual playbook and stuck riffing off far more competent special agent actioners, which leaves the result feeling cheap and unserious.

The charisma-endowed Washington and Sy do all they can to make the proceedings engrossing but even they are hard-pressed to make it interesting.

Beneath the surface of its plot involving murderous parents and children in danger, there's nothing more than the faint echo of a once-glorious action cinema. [Full review in Spanish]