It’s a character-driven story that mirrors a basic human truth—our own mortality is what gives life its urgency.

This article contains details of Old Guard 2, which debuted on Netflix on July 2. “One day, you’ll understand, every minute is a step toward death,” Uma Thurman’s vengeful Discord says in Netflix’s long-awaited and much-delayed The Old Guard 2.

About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” I found myself wondering how the filmmakers were going to wrap things up. There were a lot of threads dangling with Charlize Theron’