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Onslaught & The Uprising | SLAP #76
This week Shea and Brandon tackle a double feature of action movies: Adam Wingard's Onslaught and Paul Greengrass's Uprising.
Onslaught gets Dan Stevens going full mad-scientist camp and delivers one genuinely great sequence, but the back half trades badass super soldiers for a trailer park standoff that undercuts everything the first act built.
Uprising takes a medieval uprising-against-the-king premise and turns it into a boring and flat mess made stranger by the fact that its marketing teams panicked and released an alternative title that ruins any sense of this really being something new…
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