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Published 22:00 11 Aug 2018 BST
Updated 22:08 11 Aug 2018 BST
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He's done this kind of generic military grunt work before in the dreadful Terminator: Salvation, so it's equally frustrating seeing the guy slumming it here.
Wait, is that recent Academy Award winner Gary Oldman? In a cheap xenophobic run-of-the-mill actioner? Surely not.
Ah, there he is. There's the man.
Butler loves movies like these. The conflicted hero.
Whether it's viciously torturing people and throwing out racist dialogue like, "Go back to Fuckheadistan!" in London Has Fallen or milling around like a buff Jigsaw in Law Abiding Citizen, Butler loves getting his hands dirty.
Hunter Killer appears to be presenting a more noble side of the actor's considerable range, as he attempts to rescue the Russian president and prove once and for all that America is the biggest superpower the world has ever known.
Apart from that, you get about five generous fistfuls of clichés, some very 'affordable' looking computer effects and that horrible flat colour scheme and general lifeless feeling that marks 'wait for it on Netflix if you're going to bother at all' fare.
And it's released at the start of November, so just in time to mark two years of Donald Trump's rise to power.
Hooray?
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