David Leitch offers up an action-comedy that has glimmers of amusement but is too smarmy and convoluted to succeed.

It’s not fatal that Leitch and company have no evident goal other than to amuse audiences with two hours of spiffy nonsense, but there’s a whiff of try-hard desperation behind the film’s bravado.

It’s a shame that the filmmakers didn’t trust the spatial and dramatic tensions provided by the train journey, and opted instead for seen-it-all-before spectacle.

That shake-and-bake mix of gaudy bloodlust crossed with gauzy sentiment just doesn’t stick.