“Red Notice” is an impressively bad film with a colossal budget and some big stars. Any thirty seconds in this film seems like an expensive advert for a car or a perfume rather than an actual movie.

F.B.I. profiler John Hartley (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson “Doom”, “Rampage”) is on the hunt for two art thieves: the fast-talking Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds “Deadpool”, “Free Guy”) and ‘The Bishop’ (Gal Gadot “Wonder Woman”, “Fast Five”). His mission will take him across the world to exotic locations including Rome, Bali and Argentina. Hartley even finds himself working with Booth to catch the more elusive Bishop.

Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot are all big stars at the moment so the real incentive to see this film is to see these big stars in one movie together. The problem is that the movie itself is terrible. While I’ve liked Gal Gadot in “Wonder Woman”, I’m not particularly fond of the other two. Reynolds’ constant quips get old rather quickly. I’m not surprised that Johnson is in this film as there is a jungle scene and after a string of films including “Jungle Cruise” and the new “Jumanji” films, it’s clear that he just agrees to be in any film where he’s in a jungle.

“Red Notice” is totally soulless. Every single second of this film feels like it was designed by algorithm or a team of people in marketing. There’s not a line of dialog written or a single shot film that feels like there was any passion behind it. “Red Notice” cost a fortune to make but it’s got no substance. The whole film just takes elements from “Mission: Impossible”, “Indiana Jones”, “National Treasure”, “James Bond”, “Fast & Furious” and whatever else is popular. This film seems so fake that I was reminded of the fake film “Trio” in “Burn Hollywood Burn”.