“Shockingly incompetent. Affleck’s TNT-coded oeuvre always had the sturdy polish of a studio craftsman, but this feels like one of those cheap, 1980s potboilers that were phoned in by an elderly journeyman long past his classic Hollywood heyday. Paging Golan and Globus, is it possible that Affleck has entered his J. Lee Thompson era?” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/14/2026