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From Oscar-bothering Bollywood flicks to the Olympic Games, Britain’s most versatile filmmaker loves turning his hand to something new. Here it’s a trippy heist thriller – think Derren Brown meets David Dickinson – and Danny Boyle directs as if his life depended on it. Certainly the film does: one pause …

Kevin Bacon as a mutant Nazi! Rose Byrne in her pants! Nicolas Hoult done up like Sully from Monsters, Inc! And these aren’t even the best things about Matthew Vaughn’s vibrant, sprawling, ensemble origin story (well, maybe the Bacon bits…). A franchise reboot reminiscent of JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek …