I watched it, here are my thoughts of it, completely spoiler free:
No, it's not just bad, it's outrageous!
But first of all let me say I'm not a comic book fan, but I really like movies based on them.
So here I am sitting on the tube (in London) on my way home and I'm pretty sure this was the worst movie I saw in the cinema for the last two or three years. I've got an unlimited card so I watch nearly everything and no, I did not skip Jupiter Ascending
To be honest I did hope this can be good! To be a clever film, to be a little different somehow. Well, if I think about it, it is different! Different because normal movies are try to be coherent. They got acts that are balanced. Characters that you care about and if the movie is good you can feel excitement, joy, sadness or anything, really!
Okay, we all know about the things hat happened during the shoot, that the director had been fired. We know that Fox had to do this in order to keep the copyrights. But this feels like an incomplete movie made out of an incomplete script. Maybe they shot it and gave that already bad material to someone who knew how to edit a movie together. When he finished he knew it was bad but didn't have the experience, the talent and the time to make it right. It really feels like that!
Why did I say it is incomplete? Yes, it has really bad looking CGI. That's one thing. But the props! Oh my! I love good production design. When the practical effects, the props and the animation work altogether for good visuals. In this movie you can't find any of this.
The story is completely out of balance. The opening and the middle acts are way too long but they act for nothing: there's no build up for anything really, the characters just do things and there's zero tension. The story in the beginning is one big bad mcguffin. So we got this origin story of these people and after their first sentence you can categorise them.
Character development? It happens in an instant because the story demands it! It's laughable. Oh and let me just tell you that this movie has the worst G-man character ever! Really bad actor in a really bad role!
So we have another FF movie that's a complete disaster. You sit in front of the screen and this thing just keeps on going and you can feel they put it together by using a "how to make movies - for dummies" book or something. You can feel they just wanted to finish this no matter what. Like you did with that essay in high school. You knew it won't get an A but at least it's done and you can go and play some more Halo or something.
They used typical panels in the story. But they used them badly. Damn, I do it, I write it down: this is the Grown Ups 2 of the comic book movies. Yes, it's that bad.
Disclaimer: English is my second language, if I wrote some complete bs somewhere, feel free to bash me for it. Hopefully both of us can get a laugh out of it.
Yes, I'm a lurker but I wanted to share this because it's that bad.
