The Old Guard (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2020)

For the moment, still basking in the afterglow of 2017's astonishingly violent Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron is the action queen of Hollywood, although it may be hard for her at 44 to keep it up too much longer: it's still unlikely that they'll apply the same rules to a hardass woman than to, say, Liam Neeson.
Anyway, she's the leader of a bunch of immortal soldiers who Wolverine their way out of peril again and again until things get seriously hairy with an unscrupulous millionaire in pharmaceuticals after their secret and prepared to do anything to get it. Cue a lot of balletic gunplay, bar a few brief pauses where they mull over the burden of living forever while friends and family grow old and die (yes, the Highlander thing). Its sheer freight-train momentum keeps you watching, but there's nothing new here for superpowered genre buffs.

5/10