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Overall really enjoyed it! It has good writing and action and, like, actual characters. It makes the most of its dark hero/anti-hero/villain team-up concept, too: there's playful stuff like the moment where they're doing the standard 'all fighting each other due to misunderstanding' thing but because they're all Dark Characters a knife gets thrown at someone then caught out of the air three times in a row but also they don't pull their punches with the characters having done some shitty stuff as well as experienced it, and still being pretty messed up or just arseholes.
The banter's good and not just Marvel Quipping, the actors are good. Halfway through I was thinking "this is what the tv shows should have been like!"
There are some flaws - it loses energy once or twice, sometimes a bunch of the team fall out of focus for too long in a way that someone like Joss Whedon wouldn't allow, and while it's great that it has some themes they get extremely literal and blunt and not in quite an inventive enough way to push the climax over the top.
But I was still onboard by the end of the movie and I'd be happier to see more of the Thunderbolts than of the New Guardians Of The Galaxy, say.
The banter's good and not just Marvel Quipping, the actors are good. Halfway through I was thinking "this is what the tv shows should have been like!"
There are some flaws - it loses energy once or twice, sometimes a bunch of the team fall out of focus for too long in a way that someone like Joss Whedon wouldn't allow, and while it's great that it has some themes they get extremely literal and blunt and not in quite an inventive enough way to push the climax over the top.
But I was still onboard by the end of the movie and I'd be happier to see more of the Thunderbolts than of the New Guardians Of The Galaxy, say.
Rating: has some issues, but overall very enjoyable and light on its feet.
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