Rami Malek is a mad-as-hell secret-agent geek brainiac in a watchable but frictionless revenge film that pours a lot of other movies into the blender.

This decent spy thriller stars the erstwhile Mr. Robot as a CIA cryptographer who doesn't need a gun to avenge his murdered wife.

Despite Alex mocking him early on as wanting to be James Bond, Charles is more akin to a geeky version of Liam Neeson’s Taken do-gooder, ridding the world of cretins via the use of his very particular set of skills—which, in this case, boils down to a facility with cutting-edge technology.