Solid action flick. I would say it's a throwback to 80s and 90s action movies but it has way too much backstory and main character development for that. There's a lot of comparisons to Predator online and I can see it, but unfortunately most of the side character don't get much to do but get waxed. I like the addition of the APC chase and a couple other actions pieces but I think this movie could have used a couple things to really make it pop. First, I'm surprised that they were still only being chased by one Mech, because they seemed to be alluding to that there was more than one. Secondly, to really set it apart from Predator, how about they finally exit the wilderness to find out that civilization has been destroyed. Their home base is wiped out and all communication gone, really setting up an unknown for a sequel. I'm just glad to see original sci-fi action films like this that aren't afraid to get a little b*lls-to-the-w*lls.
I absolutely 100% wholeheartedly agree with the final message of this movie. That all media is pitting Americans against each other so CORPORATE America can rob us blind. But dang if the rest of the movie isn't a hot mess. Cocaine-paced with sloppy directing and some really terrible acting outside of the handful of the main cast. It was really hard to watch. Some of the extras and the lady that shows up in the last 3rd is some of the worst acting I've seen in a major motion picture. It all felt very rushed. Too bad cause the OG is one of my guilty pleasures Arnie flicks from the 80s.
Avatar introduced us to the beautiful alien world of Pandora and the high tech Earth forces who have come to exploit it. The Way of Water introduced us to the hidden aquatic realm. Fire and Ash didn't introduce us to much else. The Fire tribe is ok, but they are just evil Navi. Zero new human techs have been introduced, almost like they are using the CGI assets of the previous movies to save money. I counted ONE new biological form in the cuttlefish creature. In fact the story itself is a hodge-podge of the stories from the first 2 movies. The only reason this film isn't in the red is because the special effects or so top notch and the iMax is incredible. Oh, and probably one of the worst villain demises when I thought the character was going completely the other way. I expected so much more from James Cameron as one of my favorite directors.
This is one of the most visually stunning movies I've seen in awhile while the music and sound design were top notch. It really all came together in an engrossing way. The plot was simple and straight forward with some of the coolest original weapon designs I've seen since the lightsaber.. maybe. My only complaint could be that the main characters were a little one note meh. A little more excitement out of them or something would have been nice, but I had a good time regardless.
I had no idea where this movie was going the entire (nearly) 3 hour ride... but I enjoyed that ride. The movie has so many interesting turns with quirky characters. I was engrossed. Though it is nothing like it, the movie gave me this No Country For Old Men feeling that I can't quite explain. I thought it was going to be a lot more political, but it's not really. If anything I feel like it pokes fun at both of the far sides of the political spectrum. Check it out and decide for yourself.
I had high hopes for this franchise but this second outing has gone too far into the absurd. I want to see less of his family and learn more of his tattoo and military background. Ok, for a free watch and that's about it.
A great new action IP in the vein of John Wick. At first it starts out pretty gritty and realistic with some great mystery and world building but the last half hour is a kind of ridiculous action piece where Home Alone meets a factory setting. Def worth a watch.
This movie has a lot of what I wanted in a Predator movie in a long **** formula of a Predator coming to Earth, hunting a human and losing was getting stale so I'm happy to see a shake-up. I also like this trend of exploring the Yautja lore more in the last couple Predator films. The only problem that might be on the horizon is that I hope they are not painting the Predators as good guys, or anti-heroes or something. They need to be straight up villains most of the time, but this one story straying from that is ok. I've also wanted things like stories set in the future, in space and on alien worlds and we get all that here finally. I was worried about the PG-13 but this movie is surprisingly violent and the rating works because there are no humans in this movie and that is fine with me. There are some actual twists and turns here that I was surprised I enjoyed as well, though the movie would get a 10/10 from me if 2 things were omitted: the synth main character that is nothing but an exposition machine to explain things we have seen or are going to see. It's like some studio exec forced this character into the movie because they think audience are too dumb to understand a movie with no English in it (or whatever Earth language you speak). She's terribly acted with terrible dialog and the movie would have been just perfect without her. The second less annoying addition is the shoehorned baby-Yodaish cutesy creature, who is important to the plot, but it is cartoonishness and the humor do not work in a predator movie.
This guy knows how to tap into some crazy primal fears because I swear I've had so many dreams/nightmares about themes in the movie from the basement steps to nested hidden rooms within hidden rooms. I love how characters are not quite what they seem as well, because too many movies are so easy to predict the plot within the first few minutes. With Barbarian and Weapons I'm going to check out everything that Cregger does, and I'm not even a horror fan.
I laughed and that's all the mattered. There's some classic Leslie Neilson type humor in there and some newer Seth McFarlane raunchy and sexual humor stuff as well. We need more comedies these days.
This is the most middle of the road movie I've seen in quite a while. The leads are some great casting with some really strange, goofy casting of over actors as support. The action is fun and smart but ruined by the god awful cinematography. The film is chock full of super close-ups with fish eye warping, oversaturated brightness and light blowing up the entire screen. It has some of the problems of the old DCEU where it tries to do too much too quickly. We are in the middle of Superman and Lois' relationship, there's already superhero reams operating in the world and there are cameos abound. I'm familiar with it all but I hope new audiences don't get overwhelmed and confused. The beauty of the early MCU is that we got to learn and grow with the heroes in each movie as the universe slowly built itself. That's how we got addicted. Here we are thrown in with a million things going on already. A giant interdiensional imp can be attacking in the background and no one bats an eye.
This move got a +1 or 2 to score just for including the original John William score. Why Warner Brothers hasn't been using this amazing theme for the last 3 movies with the last Superman is mind melting.
The best Star Wars movie, if not one of the best movies of all time. Action, humor, romance and the biggest cinematic twist of all time. I think the special effects even stand up over 40 years later. A perfect film.
The "#1 Movie on Amazon" doesn't mean anything about quality and The Pickup is proof. I wish Eddie Murphy has done more comedies in the past couple decades but here he is just phoning it in. Pete Davidson has never been funny and he hasn't started here. The action is dumb with zero surprises. Feels like a made-for-TV movie from the 2000s.
This is the apex of a cookie-cutter for-profit Hollywood pop film. It's so full of exposition it is almost like it is catering to people that haven't played the most popular game in the history of mankind. I like the real-world stuff before they enter the game because it has the Napolean Dynamite humor but once the Overworld is reached is just because dumb and uninteresting... and this is from someone who has played the game religiously for over a decade and would rate it a 10.
This is an OK movie. Not bad, not great. A little too predictable with no real surprises. I thought I would hate Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards but he's actually pretty great. The whole cast is great, though The Things voice just doesn't fit. Galactus is the high point of the movie, done perfectly with plenty of ominous dread. If anything it's too short and plays all the beats too quickly. A solid 6.5 so I rounded up, but I won't fault anyone for rating it less.
More sweet sweet Predator goodness. I love everything about this except the third main character's story and the jarring terrible frame rate. Why is this low frame rate so popular in movies like this or shows like Invincible? It is so distracting.
The other big miss for me is the WW2 story with that pilot doing just ridiculous things. I know this is a cartoon but if it would look ridiculous in live action then it is just as dumb animated. Don't treat viewers of animation as if they are children.
The trope of the "I'm a pilot so I can fly an alien spacecraft is also dumb"
The Viking and Japanese storylines are perfect and the surprises at the end of the film ad more exciting lore to the franchise. We seem to be living in a Golden Age if you are an Alien and/or Predator lover. Funny that Disney is doing so well in this genre as they fumble the ball with the MCU. Here's hoping they wright that ship before it sinks.
I'm just so glad that Alien is finally back and not another Prometheus-like prequel. I bumped the score up a tad because I want more. That being said I have some issues, but first I'll start with the good. The directing and cinematography are amazing. CGI is used well but sparingly and a lot of effects are done practically like they are right out of Alien or Aliens. The 2 leads, Rain and Andy are great and well acted. They are interesting enough characters that I'd like to see more of as their every-man blue collar corporate employees on the fringe of space. I actually like the connections to the first Alien and to Prometheus. Glad they didn't try to rewrite canon.
More on characters: the rest are uninteresting and some downright annoying. There to make dumb decisions while yelling and screaming. I'm kind of tired of the trope that we need a group of young and sexy 20 somethings in horror movies, so that gets a big eye roll for me. This movie is more of a Facehugger film than an Alien movie as the true xenomorphs really only show up in the last third and aren't much of a threat.
Now on the Alien franchise: One of my favorite franchises of all time, yet lately (as in the last couple decades) they are concentrating more on the horror suspense aspect. Every filmmaker is trying to recapture the magic of Ridley Scott's Alien. Why aren't we getting a true balls-to-the-wall sequel to the horror/action masterpiece that is James Cameron's Aliens. This, in my opinion, is the better movie. And there has never been a true action focused follow up. Some of the most interesting character in the Alien universe has been the Colonial Marines and we have never seen them in a movie since. Tons of video games and comic books. But none of these horror directors want to make a true action epic. And I'm not counting the Alien vs Predator crossovers.
Also on the recent Alien franchise films: they all seem to be pushing to expand on the universe lore each time with Prometheus, Covenant and now Romulus. As a huge fan, the origins of the xenomorph are actually less interesting to me than just crafting a good film with suspense, terror AND action. Actually I find the Earth colonies and corporate lore more fascinating and hope that is expanded on more in Alien: Earth... coming soon.
The weird little xeno/human hybrid twist at the end of this film might be the stuff that turns on horror fans, but that's not what most Alien fans are here to see.
The movie is really close to somehwere between a 5 or 6 to me but, again, I'm bumping the score in hopes of getting something more epic in the Alien franchise.
This is one of the worst MCU movies ever. It's a shame that right wing hate mongers will use this to support their bigotry but the movie is sloppily made and you can tell it has been remade and reshot a few times. I think the Red Hulk is a stupid villain FULL STOP. He's a Hulk copy... that's Red... and a bad guy... and the best name they could come up with is The Red Hulk! Not "Inferno" or "Rage" or something more thought provoking. "Red Hulk" shows you the thoughtlessness that went into the comic book origins of this character. He was a terrible addition to the comics in a time when the Hulk comics were terrible and everyone in the Hulk's life got Hulk powers... but he doesn't even appear in a movie with the Hulk. And the Red Hulk being this 80+ year old man is weird (though being one of the my favorite actors of all time) The fact the the Red Hulk just happens to be President of the freakin United States doesn't work. It is all so weird. In fact I would have given this movie +3 or +5 in the score if the way that Sam defeats the Red Hulk in the end is by calling Banner/Hulk to help fight him. Because not being proud.... or knowing when you are beat... or knowing when to call you friends might be Sam Wilson (New Cap) greatest power. The sheer amount of superheroes he has on speed dial should be his power and that is what makes him a hreat leader. Not this stupid crap of fighting your own battles blah blah blah.
The Leader, on the other hand, is one of the greatest Marvel villians (as a long time Hulk comic subscriber) that I thought needed his time to shine but was sorely underused here and they happen to use a basterdized version of his worst look in the comics... the exploding brain Leader. He really had no purpose and hope he comes to better use in the future.
The other big glaring problem, something that the MCU has been doing for awhile now, is spoiling nearly the entire movie in the trailers. Because of that, there were zero shocks and the film was boring paint by numbers with countless flaws.
I was really really surprised as to how good this movie was and I am struggling to come up with some negatives for this review. Every one loves Bucky and the new Black Widow so they were no surprise but every other character was either unlikeable or uninteresting and this film changed that. I was very afraid throughout the movie that this is the last time we would see DeFontaine and I'm glad that that is not the case. They actually made Bob/Sentry an intriguing character that I want to see more of.I love how these anti-heroes got whateven they didn't realize they wanted, but to be seen as heroes by the end of the movie and have a team or "family" of their own to cure the loneliness and despair.
My only 2 negatives I can think of are small: The trailers and promotions get one big death a secret but also gave away too much at the same time. It pushed this movie as a joke-fest when it is not at all. I'd say the Red Guardian is the comic relief but the rest of the movie is more serious and I would say, at time, very very dark. This movie has some of the darkest themes of an MCU flick: depression, alchoholism, drug use, child abuse, self-harm, mental-health isssues. Dayum! Not really a negative but I'm just thinking out lout here.
My only other small negative is, even though I like the persobnalities in this team, it is a weird balance of being EXTREMELY underpowered compared to other MCU superhero teams... with one member that is EXTREMELY overpowered... if he can use that power. It is an interesting dynamic but very unbalanced. We'll see how it plays out in future MCU films
I'm hopeful for the MCU again and if the Fantastic Four is good/great than I would say they might have learned from their mistakes.
The movie starts out as, what seems like, a very decent teen comedy set in 1999 on New Years Eve.... think Superbad. But then the movie takes a crazy 540 degree turn into a SciFi Channel-esque comedy horror that is just so so terrible. Now, I give this movie props for trying something new and taking a risk, but it doesn't take anything seriously after that. The story, the characters, the time period. And somehow Fred Durst shows up for the final 3rd and we are all supposed to pretend he is not 25 years older.
Too bad, because I was all set for a R-rated teen comedy set in this often unexplored time period.
Wow. This movie is nothing like the trailers made it seem. This movie is about photo journalists doing stupid unrealistic things with an American civil war in the background. I expected more action and information about the fictional war and setting but it was bare bones to say the least. What little information that's in the trailers is what's in the movies. It's so frustrating to have a great premise fall so short and not deliver anything noteworthy.
If I was a MCU villain my name would be Dr Opposite. I just can't help it that certain movies that people love I can't get into and vice versa. I personally think this is James Gunn's most disjointed movie. It's weird on the 3rd and final film to throw Quill to the back burner to give Rocket center stage. I like both characters a lot but GotG3 feels like it should have been a Rocket spinoff movie after the GotG trilogy ended. A lot of the humor falls kind of flat for me and it results with the crew mostly yelling at each other for the entire movie. Is yelling funny now? On top of that there were zero surprises in the story and I think we all pretty much knew how it would play out. I secretly wished the group would all die in a blaze of glory like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or something but what we got was very safe. But how about those trailers and commercials teasing big character deaths, eh?
One big bone I have to pick about the MCU in general is how they are picking weirder and weirder stories and topics for their films and the kinda bad color scheme and design choices they are using to stick as close to old dated comics as possible, like the Kirby color palette. I understand the theme of animal testing and Rocket's friends looking like they have been tortured. But Rocket is a raccoon with some scars and some implants. Did we need a walrus with wheels or a rabbit with robotic spider legs? Kind of too goofy and freakish at the same time.
All this being said, the movie was still touching and moving and I actually liked where the film left most of the main characters. I just wish we took a different route to get there.
Unpopular opinion, but these movies are starting to drag for me. With the last 3 movies, I thought this series was going somewhere; like John Wick gathering a group of jaded assassins ready to take on the High Table, but with this movie I have no idea where all of this is headed, if it is headed anywhere at all.
Also, the action is slowly becoming Fast and Furious-level ridiculous where all cars are as soft as pillows because they can break people's falls from 4 stories are an action God can be hit 6 times with no injury.
Also, Also, how can people be murdering other people out in public but clubbers keep dancing or drivers keep driving? Does anyone ever call the cops anymore? I know that some police might be under the influence of the High Table but you think they would at least show up.
Also, Also, Also, the stunts and fight choreography are still top notch but fight scenes need to be limited to 10 minutes at the very most, otherwise all tension is lost.
There's a ton of cool new additions to the cast with some new characters that I hope stick around for any future flicks.
I still love the assassin society world-building just want it all to have a little more depth. Let's have all of this mean something in the end, eh?
Ugh, this movie had a lot of potential. I like The Rock. I like the idea of an anti-hero as powerful as Superman. I liked the CGI. That's about it. I swear the first half of the movie is a meaningless fight that we don't know what people are fighting for. Side characters are introduced that have no purpose. The movie is filled from start to finish with exposition. We're even told what great friends certain characters are instead of it been shown to us. Might be a blast for a DC diehard with all of the knowledge to fill in the blanks but for everyone else it's confusing and dull.
James Cameron has been one of the consistently greatest directors for the past few decades now and my biggest complaint is that he doesn't make more movies. Movies like Avatar, filmed with real 3D cameras, instead of converting normal to 3D in post prodcution, are the only way to see 3D iMax. If you haven't seen a real 3D movie then check this out, it is a world of difference.
A fun flick with the real life fighter jet scenes that need to be seen to be believed. I wish I could have seen it in iMax, but never got a chance. One complaint is that it's funny that they never name the mysterious country in which the special mission is performed.. I guess to not anger any countries in which this movie could be shown. You don't even get to SEE an enemies face to possibly give away which country it might be. Kind of funny how hard they avoided it when you're looking for it.
Fun. Some cool concepts but a lot of missed opportunities. I think a lot of us were expecting something like Spider-man: NWH with more multi-versal travel, variants and cameos. We got one parallel universe, 1 dead universe and one montage. We got a handful of variants and a couple cameos of character we mostly don't care about or may never see again. The trailer ruined the best cameo.
I like how Strange's relationship with Christine was handled and wrapped up.
I liked the villain and her motives, even if a little over the top at points.
That big cameo fight was the best part of the movie.
Overall, a ok movie that could have been so much more.
I haven't been in awe of a movie in a long time. Everything in this film is top notch from the real life locations to the huge cast of extras, but what really sells it is that the entire movie is essentially one big long take. Every time I notice this movie on TV I'm enthralled and have to watch it to completion. It's just amazing how from the first minute you are watching every step in the journey of these men and it's fun to rewind in your mind and think back to which steps came before. A work of art.
Perfect sci-fi action and hidden gem. Original premise, awesome choreography and fights, great acting and some amazing twists. What more could you ask for?
At first, I was a little irked that only the 2 Spider-men we know of from other movies showed up from the multi-verse and not the dozens of others that COULD have possibly showed up with them. But after a couple rewatches I realized that it allowed the story to focus on the characters we are more familiar with while also possibly even leaving some avenues open for future movies. This allowed us to have more personal moments with the characters we love than forcing something with characters we have never seen.
I could have done without the memes shoe-horned into the movies. It kinda take you out of the moment at times.
Also, I thought some the Spider-man CGI swinging and jumping action quality seems almost a step back from the first 2 franchises for some reason. Though the villains and some of their de-aging looked top notched.
But they minor quibbles don't make detract from the things that propelled this movie to near-perfect status in my book:
Peter losing Aunt May was gut wrenching. It didn't need to happen in this move, but it needed to happen to this Peter Parker because we never got that Uncle Ben moment and this was that moment for him. Like others have said, it's almost like these first movies in the MCU are this Peter's origin story. I like how Sony/Marvel is not just throwing the exact same story at us every few years with different villains. You noticed how, beside the Goblin, no Spider-man villain has been played by more than 1 actor. That is something else I appreciate that we aren't seeing the 3 iteration of the Harry/Peter story or the third Black Cat romance, etc. (I'm looking at you Batman with your 5 movie Jokers)
That ending how the MCU Peter/Spider-man gets a reset couldn't be more perfect and is surprisingly weighty and heartfelt. There are a dozen new directions Sony can take it from there.
Lastly, I loved how the Peters decided to save the villains and cure them instead of just punch and kick them back into their universes. Yeah, it makes things cloudy with how they reappear in their own dimension, some of them moments before their death, but it sets Spider-man aside as a different kind of hero. Especially when nearly all of his villains are results of accidents in the first place.
Things I liked: The Cast: Andy Serkis is awesome in everything he does, Patterson did a great job, Jeffery Wright is the next generation's Morgan Freeman. I really like Zoe Kravitz in most things she does but she seemed kind of ... 'off' in this one. In fact the whole Batman-Catwoman romance didn't work for me. He acts all stoic, she throws some half-azzed flirtations his way and I guess that's supposed to be a romance of sorts? Colin Farrel deserves an Oscar for his performance has the Penguin. If people weren't told who was playing Cobblepot ahead of time they never would have guessed it. Paul Dano was a ****... much. I could have done with a little toning down of the Riddler without the PG-13 Seven wannabe.
The action was top notch and some of the best of any batman movie.
So why the score? Three major issues bring big negatives in my book: the cinematography is some of the worst I've ever seen in any movie. As dark and unrecognizable as Solo or some eps of the last season of GoT. I had to turn my brightness to max on my TV just to see what was happening in this movie. If Solo gets a knock for it, so should this movie.
The second big negative is the musical score. The entire soundtrack is a riff of the same 4 notes used over... and over.. and over again and it gets old very quick in a 3 hour movie and that brings me the third big negative:
The length. There is no way this movie needed to be 3 hours. After hearing about "Saving Gotham" with a brooding Batman for 2 hours.. I was done and tuning out for the last hour.
My next big point: this is the third Batman in 10 years. They've introduced the fourth Joker in 15 years. Why is WB so afraid of making a BM movie without even a mention of the Joker? Can we get some new villains up in here? Black Mask, Hush, Clayface, anyone that hasn't been on the big screen before? Maybe someone a little more comic-booky like Man-bat,instead of these gangsters and psychopaths, Can we quit trying to push Batman as the darkest superhero, who doesn't kill mind you, while treading the PG-13 line? I just need something new and refreshing and different in a Batman movie and this was just a harder attempt at a Batman-Nolan movie.
A slight improvement from the original but in typical Zack Snyder fashion it takes itself way too seriously. The main problem still exists from the last one... this movie, like all of Snyder's in the DCEU, are just trying to do too much. Think about it, in 3 movies we went from the Superman's origin, to BvsS, to Death of Superman, to his resurrection. We didn't even get ONE movie of him just fighting Earth villains and working at the Daily Planet. And Batman is still the world's worst detective telling everyone around him his secret identity. The movie could be 30-60 minutes shorter if all of the slo-mo scenes set to Snyder's favorite music were played at normal speed. The best part is Cyborg, though his face weirdly looks like it a bad deep fake most of the movie, and it's a shame, because of WB hi-jinks, we will probably never get a continuation of his story. The massive battle on Earth is cool. The ending is very cool and could lead to something awesome, if it ever happens, but again, Snyder is firing on all cylinders trying to get to the next big Superman story. One last thing, the new re-design of some of these characters kind of reminds of Bay's Transformers, where they are over-designed with a million chittering moving parts, in mostly Steppenwolf and Cyborg. But that's not surprising because they are so similar as film makers.
An amazing ending to 10 years of storytelling and a new beginning to hopefully another 10 more. There's just so many moments I've been waiting to see in a Marvel movie that I finally got in Endgame. Sad that so many stories have ended but can't wait to see where this universe goes next.
I didn't love this movie but I didn't hate it. The movie is beautiful yet 95% CGI, like Avatar or Ready Player One. Seriously, many many scenes didn't even need to be CGI but they were. I wonder if anyone in the cast even got wet filming this movie sometimes. Though the art style is amazing, the directing style is almost child-like... very similar to Michael Bay or something like Zak Snyder just more colorful. Too much camera spinning and zooming in a way that's impossible for a real camera so you know it's CGI. The choreography is pretty good, however.
I've loved Momoa since Game of Thrones and he has tons of charisma and puts 100% into every role he plays. The casting is incredible in this movie but they are not given much to do. Aquaman started out great but then fell into literally an hour of exposition. This stuff is not that complicated, writers. We are not dummies we can get it without an explanation for everything. On top of that most of the comedic moments fell flat and were something like the humor of 80s movies which is quaint and cute today but comes off dated in a new film.
It seems like this movie is a sample of a dozen movies you have seen before. Everything is too predictable and it just never tries anything original or surprising. My wife and I were constantly guessing aloud the next line or the next scene and it's like we are psychic prophets or something... or it's like everything we've already seen before.
This is the best Star Wars movie that Disney has made so far and let me tell you why: I am a long time Star Wars fan that enjoyed the Expanded Universe stuff before it was wiped out by Disney. Since that unfortunate cleansing Star Wars hasn't felt like Star Wars anymore. The sequel movies are weird because the feature character I know (or thought I knew) and they have the Force and familiar looking fighters and spaceships, nothing else is familiar. All of the planets are new. None of the 100s of aliens from the previous movies are seen in the background. None of the history is there except only stuff from the previous Lucas movies. Rogue One was a little better but only because it took place in a familiar time period during the rebellion right before A New Hope. It was almost like this was a whole different universe with The Force, X-wings and Death Stars thrown in.
Well, Solo finally has me hopeful for the future of these movies. This is the universe that I have been falling in love with since the mid 90s with the comics, novels and video games. You finally get to see on the big silver screen tons of things that you only could read about or at best see in a cartoon. The planets are all familiar, ranging from Corellia to Kessel. There are even mentions of legendary places like Coronet City and Carida Academy. Decades old EU material is finally brought into the new canon like CorSec, Corellian Hounds and so much more. Then there are even the connections to the Clone Wars cartoon like Mimban, the Pyke Syndicate and yes... even Darth freakin Maul. This is the Star Wars I know. I was surprised how much of this movie I loved that kept me smiling. I have a feeling once more people get to catch this movie after it leaves theaters that it will grow in popularity after the hate dies down.
From the very first scene I knew that there are actually stakes this time and that left me on the edge of my seat for most of the movie. The fight scenes were some of the best of any superhero film . The movie was non stop from beginning to end and that ending will be on haunting me until Avengers 4 in 2019. I literally cannot wait.
I really wanted to like GotG vol 2 but it seemed like this sequel was retreading old ground. Fun, but more of the same. Instead of the wit and goofiness of the previous installment, we got a bunch of yelling and infighting that wore thin after a couple hours. I thought Ego was an inspired choice for the antagonist of the film but then his agenda of turned out to be the same as a handful of Marvel villains before him. The father-son dynamic of the movie was touching but could have used some more actual on-screen time between space pirate captain and space pirate son beside a last minute sacrifice to attempt to tug on the heart strings.
All-in-all a mixed bag.
