With Citadel, Priyanka Chopra proves she is as good as it takes to be a top-rate spy hero in Hollywood. She kicks butt as Ethan Hunt, shoots from the hip as Jason Bourne, and socks the living daylights out of the baddies as James Bond 007.
Heck, cast her as 007 for all she’s worth — if they’re still confused over what happens to that franchise post Daniel Craig, given her Citadel form she might just nail it.
Her much-vaunted Citadel is rehash of Hunt, Bourne or Bond’s worlds, after all, and that is not necessarily a good thing when you are helming a $300-million small-screen series. Halfway through with three episodes out, the six-episode first season of Citadel has so far looked like a generic copy of Ethan Hunt’s Mission: Impossible in its hi-tech stunt extravaganza, tried fuelling drama over memory and memory loss in a way it brings back Jason Bourne recall, and stuffed in a goodlooking package of basic suspense and corny one-night flings in a way it celebrates Bond excesses.
