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Surely there must be a gap in the market for a female-led spy thriller series in the James Bond or Jason Bourne mode. Unfortunately, Unlocked is not the movie that launches that franchise, despite sticking firmly to the conventions of the genre. A little too firmly, you might say. Despite a stellar international cast headlined by Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette and Michael Douglas, this functional contemporary spy yarn is played too bluntly by 76-year-old British director Michael Apted, who brings nothing new to the film. formula in addition to the minor. innovation of dropping an action heroine into a field dominated by men. That said, the timely plot about Islamist terror attacks on the streets of London and Paris will add a newsworthy angle to the film's marketing. Unlocked has already been widely sold in a number of territories and makes its UK theatrical debut later this week, with a US release scheduled for September. Globally, the largely conservative surge of und...