Hardcore review – plotless, characterisation-free cinema du Xbox

Director Ilya Naishuller’s gory, first-person action film is like a video game in which we leap, climb, kill and find ourselves bored sillyFor folks who are too lazy to play their own video games, there’s the movie Hardcore. For 90 minutes, first-time feature director Ilya Naishuller throttles your central nervous system with a stretched-out spasm of first-person action. Run here, jump there, slice this carotid artery, shatter that skull. The plot, what little of it there is, has mut