Canary Black boasts a director and star with experience making action movies starring in a film that, on the surface, looks like it could be good. Dropped onto Prime Video with no fanfare, Canary Black is an instantly forgettable replication of countless other action movies that offers nothing to distinguish itself from every other action movie out there.

The film follows CIA operative Avery Graves, whom terrorists have blackmailed into betraying her country so she can save her husband.

Pressing play on an action movie like "Canary Black" is like ordering at McDonald's. You've already agreed to lower your standards, so you don't get to complain that it's ultra-processed junk food. That's what you signed up for.

Canary Black (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) teams director of generic action movies Pierre Morel (Taken, Peppermint, Freelance) with the star of a couple-few too many generic action movies, Kate Beckinsale (Jolt,

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