Guardians

I don't know why people are trying to say this movie is good, because it is not. First the good parts, the cinematic, music and special effects are pretty decent. And the bad, how can I put this, the movie has no pace, the way they start the team it's laughable, "wanna join? sure". The stiff face major blonde whatever struggles to show emotions and empathy, but it just makes you laugh at her failing to do so, and the list goes on and on, the acting is really terrible.

OK, we get it, small budget, but that doesn't mean the story,editing and acting has to be so low.

As a Russian I'm really offended by this film. Firstly it doesn't have any originality. Russia is showed here very bad. Only one joke about "borsh" and bear-guy is not Rissia. Also characters don't have any background and motivation. Main enemy too. And if a can forgive this things, bad work of sound-operator and terrible assamblaje are absolutely unforgivable. As a result, horrible script, horribe actor's playing, pointles dialogs. It's even not a parody.. It's even not a superhero movie.. Only one good thing is a song in the beginning.

Felt like leaving the cinema after the first 15 minutes if we weren't out in a group for a birthday celebration. No creativity, no individuality. Tried too hard to be a Marvel movie but fell short with each element a good movie should have. The sets and CG were rather poor for these past 2 centuries' standard. Patchy storyline/editing. My friends and i agreed that perhaps the best actor with the most natural acting was the old professor. Closed my eyes half the time but even the lines were so dull. Finally felt energised when the movie ended. 80% of the cinema crowd bolted from their seats and headed for the exits without seeing the post-credit scenes. I am not looking forward to the sequel even with the Chinese participation...

The plot is the normal on this movies, a secret project to turn man on super soldiers is shut down and the mentor of this project finds himself with superpowers and wants to rule the world.

This movie has good ingredients to be a good movie, superheroes, fight scenes, nice girls , action, i only gave it 6 stars because sometimes to me it seems like the acting was not at the best, it didn't look natural, look mechanized , if the dialogues where more fluid then the movie would be better.

So , the Russian avengers is a good movie to see and hope it will get better on the sequel.

I can't get past the fact this film has a bear man hybrid with a chain gun. How cool is that?

Guardians has taken a bit of a bollocking from some reviewers. I think some of the comments are fair but others I don't agree with.

Firstly, this is not a bad film. Its reasonably well made with mostly worthwhile special effects and decent action sequences. Some of the fantasy tech employed by the baddies and the super-hero's is pretty cool too and shows imagination.

On the downside it does "wallow" a bit and get stuck in excessive dialogue at times, especially in the middle of the film. There is too much time spent on research "techno-babble" and extraneous back story elements. This tends to rob the film of some of the pace and momentum it sorely needs, as an action flick.

Of course the inevitable comparison is US made action films, especially those from the Marvel universe. I'd say The Guardians is better than some and worse than others. For me, it falls in the "middle" of the line-up of US counterparts, which is not a bad effort, given Russia is not known as a producer of the this kind of action fare. On that basis, I give this flick a seven out of ten.