Review: Knotty And Tense B-Movie ‘MI-5’ Starring Kit Harington

Action b-movies have had a resurgence of late, with a few of the finest escaping the oblivion of VOD and putting up solid box office numbers. Last year’s excellent Keanu Reeves flick “John Wick” even proved, once again, that the genre could still pack a punch. And Gerard Butler will be back to save (the president or whole world or something) in the follow up to “Olympus Has Fallen” — aptly titled “London Has Fallen” — which destroyed its mega budget counterpart, "White House Down," at the box office in 2013. Now “MI-5” is here to spice up the early goings of the holiday season and supply us with our bi-annual dose of rogue-hero-will-stop-at-nothing-to-do-the-right-thing.

Based off the BBC One TV series “Spooks,” with much of the principal cast reprising their roles, “MI-5” (known as “Spooks: The Greater Good” across the pond) kicks off with prisoner transport gone wrong. MI-5 has gotten their hands on the CIA’s most wanted, and all they have to do is hand him over. But...