It’s Charlize angels’ time to kick ass!

“THERE can only be one,” was the tagline of the Highlander movies. Well, not quite. Charlize Theron proves there is room for two miserable, immortal warriors in this watchable fantasy.

Theron doesn’t have to do too much acting as Andromache of Scythia (Andy to her mates) – a millennia-old avenger who has fallen out of love with the human race. “We’ve done nothing,” she tells one of her ageless team, while putting on a grumpy face. “The world isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse.”

But the Oscar winner gets plenty of chances to show off those sweet fighting skills she developed for Atomic Blonde.

Theron looks the part whether she is kung fu kicking on a plane or wielding an axe in flashbacks to ancient times.

A solid opening sets up the mythology of the 2017 comic book series. Andy and her squad (Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari and Luca Marinelli) have been killed and resurrected thousands of times while protecting the innocent.

But they aren’t completely immortal. Centuries ago, one of the “old guard” failed to come back to life.

And it seems Andy is ready to go before she senses the presence of a new immortal – a US marine called Nile (KiKi Layne).

The scenes where Nile is forced to accept her powers are hugely entertaining. But the film becomes less interesting after we are thrown into a formulaic plot involving Chiwetel Ejiofor’s CIA agent and Harry Melling’s evil English baddie.

Melling was fine as Harry Potter’s nasty cousin, but he horribly over-acts here.

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood spurns plenty of opportunities to puncture the daft story with over-the-top violence and camp one-liners… she didn’t need a pantomime villain.