A pretty sloppy, very mild movie, with some terrible child performances, boring villains and incredibly on the nose statements of theme. Probably fine for undiscerning 6 year olds.
Rating: Bad.
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A pretty sloppy, very mild movie, with some terrible child performances, boring villains and incredibly on the nose statements of theme. Probably fine for undiscerning 6 year olds.
Rating: Bad.
I'm a fan of all Batmans - '66, '89, Begins, Lego - and I enjoyed the super grimdark Sin City tone here, as well as the Batman Year Two set-up where everyone's fairly well established and Batman can stand in a crime scene with a bunch of cops while Gordon says to him "The Riddler wants to talk to you" or whatever.
All the performances were good and there were some tense action scenes (though it was occasionally tough to tell exactly what was going on, it was mostly readable), it looked nice enough, the score was effective if stripped down to the point of repetitiveness. The Riddler was okay, though ironically it felt like Dano never really found the key to the character.
The main issue was the structure and pacing - the Year Two thing is a bit of a double-edged sword here because the film felt more like three episodes from the middle of a prestige tv series, just relentless plot beats, no breathing space or flow of set-up and payoff.
Solid, and I'd be happy to get another one.
Rating: Pretty good.
Good fun but pretty much the same as Scre4m, tbh. It had some slightly different stuff going on, but it didn't really do enough with it. I do like that they still call back to the first one with little stuff like Red Right Hand playing or Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson references.
Rating: Fine.
Mediocre at best, a bit rushed and soulless. Action is badly directed, nothing really makes sense, and Wahlberg is a brick wall.
Rating: Bad.
Very fun, I lolled a lot. Felt slightly less epic than the other movies, wonder if COVID scuppered some stuff. Definitely worth watching if you enjoyed all their previous stuff.
Rating: Good.
Messy, muddled and mostly dull, this feels like a movie that wants to be an anti-war drama but could only get made if it was a Kingsman movie so occasionally has to bung in an acrobatic fight scene or some aimless alternate-history super-villainy before returning to another slow reading of Wilfred Owen poetry. Eventually it completely gives up and provides us with the happy ending of getting even more countries into the war and turning the pacifist lead into a killer. Any remaining time is spent on the usual prequel busywork. As for action, there are a couple of pretty good swordfights in there but the rest is a mix of half-arsed Kingsman-lite and Pirates Of The Caribbean-y nonsense.
Rating: Bad.
A solid Dangerous Game riff, with some fun twists and decent action. The political layer is pretty mild and goofy - it barely rates as satire but then I don't think the film has any major aspirations in that regard. It pokes fun at both sides but mostly at the constant fever pitch of modern discourse, with modest success.
Rating: Fine.