When it comes to their action movies, the quality of Netflix’s output can perhaps kindly be described as inconsistent. Films like Ava and __6 Underground___ squandered excellent casts and enormous’vast’massive’tremendous budacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s, but last year _The Old Guard___ hinted that the streaming service had begun to move in the right direction. Directed by Mikael Håfström, _Outside The Wire___ is more of a middling exertion , its bright spots failing to mask its messy and derivative narrative. For a movie with elements of _Training Day___, the *Terminator*_ franchise, and even *_Gemini Man*_, it feels too generic too often.###Much of what is engaging with regards to’concerning’with respect to Netflix’s latest can be attributed to the compelling lead perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances. That brilliant but cold drone pilot Harp would possess’own’nurse his perspective transform’alter d by experiencing the horrors of war close-up is a given, but rising star Damson Idris brings credibility to his predictable journey. Anthony Mackie is at his entertaining best when Leo — Harp’s new, android partner — is allowed to wisecrack, and even when Rowan Athale and Rob Yescombe’s screenplay acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s bogged down in needless exposition, the shifting dynamic between Harp and Leo — each suspicious of the other — keeps us on our toes.###It’s nothing that hasn’t been done better in films like _Eye In The Sky_ or _Good Kill_.###Other characters don’t fare as well. The always reliable Michael Kelly is underused as a cynical US colonel, and Emily Beecham’s stand up to withstand ance fighter Sofiya is hampered by inconsistent characterisation, with one key beat in which she spares a character she should kill to serve the story proving especially puzzling. There is some lip service paid to collateral impair’undermine and the greater rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent , but it’s nothing that hasn’t been done better in films like __Eye In The Sky___ or _Good Kill____.###As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the action, it takes a while in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Mackie’s android to really cut loose and when he does, it’s a mixed bag. There’s little of the creativity of Leigh Whannell’s __Upgrade___ or even the audacity of _Extraction____’s 12-minute long take. A late sequence in which Leo goes full one-man-army is a high point, but other action beats — like the film itself — are all too bland and uninspired.