“The Collective” (** out of four) was an overly routine action potboiler about a young kid (Lucas Till) who is recruited to join a dangerous group of underworld assassins (Don Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Ruby Rose) but ends up going rogue after his first assignment to stop a dangerous group of human traffickers and finds them and his initial team out to kill him. Film’s title is sadly appropriate since film is simply a collection of other and better movie ideas and premises, especially “The Bourne Identity” if you couldn’t guess. Johnson adds some style as the kid’s grizzled mentor but even he played this role better decades earlier in “Miami Vice.”

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