I feel like the movie's outline of a plot was okay, but filling in the details and a lot of things in the movie were just too loose.
Why exactly do the Izoku exist and want to prevent mixed interaction between surface people and underground people? This also seemed to be the reason the underground people were afraid of top dwellers, but it'd be nice there was any better explanation for it.
Early in the movie, were we introduced to Archangel, which were explained just to believe that Agartha had secrets that could better humanity or something - something pretty generic. They also seemed pretty antagonistic for some reason. It wasn't really established well, but the bottom dwellers were aware of them and hated them.
A lot of the conflict in the movie came from those two things - which felt kinda hand-waved to me.
The main girl's motivation was a little bit weak too. I understand she wanted to meet the boy that saved her life again. Star-crossed romance certainly isn't a new thing but I wish there was a little bit more to it - the 'relationship' was established so quickly.
Why exactly do the Izoku exist and want to prevent mixed interaction between surface people and underground people? This also seemed to be the reason the underground people were afraid of top dwellers, but it'd be nice there was any better explanation for it.
Early in the movie, were we introduced to Archangel, which were explained just to believe that Agartha had secrets that could better humanity or something - something pretty generic. They also seemed pretty antagonistic for some reason. It wasn't really established well, but the bottom dwellers were aware of them and hated them.
A lot of the conflict in the movie came from those two things - which felt kinda hand-waved to me.
The main girl's motivation was a little bit weak too. I understand she wanted to meet the boy that saved her life again. Star-crossed romance certainly isn't a new thing but I wish there was a little bit more to it - the 'relationship' was established so quickly.