Kathmandu, Aug. 31 -- You want to like Xira, you really do, but it just won't let you.
Consider this scene: Xira opens the door to a hallway. She is ready for hand-to-hand combat with around eight men. She kicks, throws punches, and beats the goons to a pulp. The norm in most films is that goons collapse after just one hit from the protagonist, but not in this film. Here, they shrug off their bruises and attack again. The audience thinks it is in for a treat, but then, slowly, you realise that this scene is a little too familiar. Dedicated watchers of film and television from recognise this hallway fight as having been lifted straight from the South Korean cult classic Oldboy (2003) and the Netflix TV series Daredevil (2015).
In Xira (pro...