Lukas Walker provides all of the thrills an action aficionado could ask for with nonstop shootouts and brutal violence, a ticking time bomb of a narrative, and no-nonsense heroes who undertake a challenging mission to stop a nuclear incursion from Russia on the United States of America. It’s a good ol’ fashioned shoot-em-up ride with some ingenuity to keep those mental cogs running on overdrive.
Chris Harding is a Special Forces veteran who has developed quite a taste for the action. Battling PTSD and other demons, he can’t stick to the sidelines. He’s a warrior. When he’s recruited by a private military contractor run by his friend on behalf of US officials to infiltrate Russia and disarm a quantum computer capable of launching multiple nuclear missiles simultaneously, he jumps in head first. He’ll soon realize the game requires more than he could have anticipated, requiring him to listen to the spook in him as well as the hardened killer.
Disarm is the perfect summer action adventure to raise the heat some more with its explosive action sequences ramping up one after another while retaining the resonance and impact of each kinetic engagement within the grander scope of the narrative. Chris Harding and his team quickly become a force to be reckoned with against all odds and you find yourself immersed in the deadly mission with them thanks to Lukas Walker’s sublime ability to ground the narrative without losing the thrill-factor. Walker ensures there’s a balanced diet of gritty realism and just enough of a suspense of disbelief to make the story a ferocious page-turner.
It doesn’t hurt that the narrative comes equipped with exciting but gut-wrenching twists and turns. All in all, Disarm is a charming debut that establishes an exciting roster of heroes and anti-heroes with cinematic shootouts, old-school patriotism, and an ending that all but guarantees that we’ll have more of some badass thrillers coming up from Lukas Walker.
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