This film is really confused, which iirc was a problem with the first one. It flips between a Watchmen-type "weirdoes in home-made costumes getting the shit kicked out of them" thing and a Mystery Men cartoonish nonsense, but all the while with a pretty mean-spirited feel to it. Also, a lot of the time it wants to be a little character drama and the rest of the time an epic superhero movie, but it's not very good at either. The worst crime of all, though, is it's pretty dull. It spends nearly all the film setting up character motivations and barely has a plot, it's like the first half hour of a Spider-Man movie stretched out to feature-length with a dash of Spider-Man 2's "I don't WANNA be a superhero any more".
Jim Carrey's great in it though.
Rating: Bad
Thursday 29 August 2013
Elysium (2013)
A big mess. Not awful, just frustrating. No characters, just ciphers and walking plot-devices, lots of cliches, plot-holes, clumsy exposition and sledgehammer one-percent themes, and it felt more like a music-video director's first film than the sophomore effort of the District 9 guy. And as much as I love Sharlto Copley, his character is just another of those District 9 nameless saffer dickhead mercenaries.
I felt a big misstep was showing Elysium before they actually got there - it was so dull and broad. Wish the film had spent more time on Earth building that world and having Elysium as some unreachable paradise.
Rating: Fine
I felt a big misstep was showing Elysium before they actually got there - it was so dull and broad. Wish the film had spent more time on Earth building that world and having Elysium as some unreachable paradise.
Rating: Fine
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