La guerra del futuro

A for effort? Unfortunately effort doesn't do much in this day and age. The all-star veteran cast plays a set of extremely stereotypical characters that are easily forgotten. The dialogues are bland, the action scenes are unmemorable, and there seems to be very few logic behind the settings. The inclusion of the little girl is so painfully stereotypical of such Cantonese films that you feel like you are transported back to the 80s. If this movie is supposed to be Louis Koo's love letter to sci-fi films, its a commendable job as it offers so little in terms of modern sci-fi. And if this movie is supposed to represent Hong Kong's movie industry in the new age, that would be pretty tragic.

Overall production is great, the story makes relative sense, the characters have some depth to them, the CGI is outstanding. I personally love the overall aesthetic of the movie. Cool suits, freaky aliens, everything an FPS gamer could ever dream of. The biggest problem for me is the pacing is just too fast. I can't appreciate the beautiful scenes long enough, the action sequences are great but it's also ruined by the constant changes of the camera angle which then becomes unwatchable. I was so hyped for this movie, but sadly it's a disappointment that could've been easily fixed with a better director.

It's ok, it had some good moments, some boring moments; there are some scenes I just did not understand at all for one reason or the other as they made no sense. Without giving any spoilers, I'll leave it up to you, but it just made no common sense for some to be...where no kids should be.. All 3 female actresses were not very good and may be it wasn't their fault but the fault of the directors and the bad script The story is very cheesey. I don't believe actors were right for this one, it just felt a bit amateurish and cheesy.

Script had a lot of holes.

I get it, it's a Sci-fi, but it should also make at least some basic common sense, and a lot of things did not throughout the whole movie.

5.2/10. Anyone giving it more than a 6 is probably involved in the movie... There are a lot better movies from China and this is not one of them.

No real story, you just get some fight with robots and aliens just to save the already destroyed earth. The camera was moved sometimes so fast you couldn't really feel and see the set. The movie shows you humans, fighting, some cliches and that's it. It's a waste of time. I watched it in English. It was horrible. You wont remember a thing in a few hours. The characters are not well written. I have the feeling that they wanted to copy some crappy western style alien fighting movies, and they copied the bad dialogues and characters auswelle. All in all it's a 5. You can watch it, or leave it in the background but for that purpose you should just put some nice music on.

The storyline is simple, nothing confusing and out of the box. Just chill and enjoy the movies without thinking too much on the storyline. The CGI in the movies has already reach a standard comparable with US movie, consider that it is a Kong Kong company that makes the CGI. The acting is average for some actor. (e.g when you are in war, why the actor faces are still clean and shinny). It is not a perfect storyline, with loophole and some does not make any sense, but good effort put into this movie hearing that it took years to make. Nevertheless, I did enjoyed the movie for their action & CGI, the explosion and the fights.