“Wildcat” (**1/2 out of four) was a proficient but perfunctory action thriller about an ex-special Black Ops team (Kate Beckinsale, Lewis Tan, Rasmus Hardiker, and others) who reunite to save the life of an 8-year old girl whose in peril and they become caught in the crossfire between two underworld criminal kingpins (Charles Dance and Alice Krige) and their brutal street war. Packed with hard-boiled dialogue and enough gunfire and hand-to-hand combat to make it watchable for fans but still pretty conventional and doesn’t break much new ground. Beckinsale and Dance are rock-solid as usual but even they could play these roles in their sleep by now.

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