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Hamster is a black teenage aspiring to be an investigative reporter like Hunter Thompson. He finds his subject in homeless man Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) who claims to be a hero with superpowers. He comes from another world and the problem is that his powers only exist in his home world. Hamster's sister gets into trouble with drug dealers after stealing their money.

I really like the premise but I would slow-roll the comic book animation. The first half of the movie shouldn't have the animation. The audience should be conflicted about Max Fist's story and his home world. He should be equally crazy and equally heroic. I like the fight against the car and there should be more of that. This is smaller indie and the movie struggles to be a big action superhero movie that it wants to be especially in the third act. All in all, I like the characters, the actors, and the premise.

Hey, better than most of the seasonal Hollywood crap coming out right now. Movie about a fallen hero from another world. Interesting and compelling. Special effects weren't the best. Worth a watch.

Yeah, this movie just didn't work out as it was intended to do.

Sure, I mean the concept of the movie was interesting enough. And a story about a fallen superhero sent to another dimension where he is stripped of his super powers definitely sounded interesting.

And I must admit it was on that concept that I opted to sit down to watch the movie, because it sounded like writers Adam Egypt Mortimer and Luke Passmore were on to something here. But the movie was a swing and a miss.

It was so difficult to buy into the movie and get submerged into the storyline, especially so since nothing overly interesting actually happened as the movie took its sweet time going from A to B. Yeah, this movie was amazingly slow paced, and that was something that took a massive toll on the overall enjoyment of the movie.

The acting in the movie was adequate, though the actresses and actors had little material to work with in terms of a proper script and proper character. At least actor Joe Manganiello was adequately cast for the movie.

Visually then "Archenemy" wasn't impressive. I absolutely loathed the comic book sequences, especially since it was poorly drawn and it just seemed like a discount and B movie way of skipping on having to spend a ton of money on proper special effects.

My rating of "Archenemy" lands on a mere two out of ten stars, as "Archenemy" offered very little entertainment to me. If you enjoy superhero movies, which I don't really do, then you might as well skip on this 2020 movie.

Archenemy starts off with a good idea, and as the movie goes on it gets bad. The acting is awful to start, but it's a low budget film so you can't expect anything more. The action scenes when they're are any are semi good. Overall this film fell super flat for me and I probably would not recommend it to anyone.

Few movies shot in this twisted style. Comic book inserts that are perfectly woven into the storyline lend a good narrative to this yet grim story.

Too bad, because the trailer was promising. Unfortunately, the film takes three steps back whenever it could finally get going, massively slows down and drifts into boredom again.

The silly cartoon interludes don't really help to make the whole thing more interesting. The film struggles, agonizes until the end and closes on a Kafkaesque note.

As a novice filmmaker, Adam Egypt Mortimer had a unique superhero concept, but the delivery just wasn't there.

I feel the story tried to be too many things at once, and that convoluted the execution. The ending also seemed rushed, as there were far too many questions that needed to be answered - about the ending, and some of the vague backstory I was expecting clarification at least by the end of the film. I mean you can't just throw in a villain in the last 10 minutes and expect to get away with it, especially when you also try to throw in some twists.

The decent 90 min runtime felt longer with some slow pacing, and with the plot and technical issues. His directing was decent, although the comic strip portions could've been better. Cinematography and score were on point. Casting was decent, with Manganiello stealing the show with his outstanding performance. Had that character not been as good as Manganiello, this film may have been a huge flop. It was a fun watch with so little other options, but I wouldn't see it again. It's a generous 7/10 from me.

Just boring and dry, the tempo wasn't there for me at all

Im not sure if people were trying to compare this to block buster films with 150 million dollar budgets. Apples and bananas, come on. I know these are just other peoples opinions and I am doing the same but give the people who put the work in credit. Sometimes stories require imagination to fill in the blanks.

I thought this was well done. The mesh between the worlds was well executed and the visuals were crisp. Im not sure what the lack of character development comments were either. The entire movie is the main character narrating his past through the eyes of a young writer.

The acting was spot on for the story and the length.

If this was the directors debut film I tip my hat to him and his team. You can tell that is was well executed . I am excited to see the future films that are produced. Its nice to see something out there that is not made to fit everyones marketing ploy to reach "every demographic".

Great job to all involved!

I like Joe Manganiello. No matter how many bad roles he does, I still have something in my heart for him, some hope that he will do better and shine. Unfortunately it's not this film. The plot is not that original, but OK: a guy pretending to be a superhero from another dimension, while we have to struggle to believe him in lack of any real evidence, the hapless kids that get into something bad and need help, the comic book vibe, the resolution at the end. And it kind of starts promising, too. Yet from the middle on it just gets depressing and slow and badly acted.

Bottom line: I would have liked to like this film, but it just wasn't the case. It felt like an episode of Powers with an even lower budget and worse acting.

Needless to say not an original one. The concept of this movie has been used by the sci-fi sector in so many ways, it may even bore you when you first started the movie. Later things get interesting because you too wonder what is real and what is not alongside the main character. This movie caught my eye because of its beautiful poster and I can't say I regret watching it but I am slightly disappointed because even though I watched this without any expectations I guess a small part of me wanted this to be good. As I said, I loved the main idea and I would love to see it handled better but not as a 90mins movie but as a tv mini-series. The format would have been more suitable because there was no chance to see any character depth or to understand why someone is doing something other than just guessing. Action scenes could have handled better if this was a tv series alongside well... everything. I don't recommend it if you are hoping to watch a really good movie but if you wanna watch a movie that could trigger your imagination to think of a better scenario based on this one, then you can give it a try because you can't help but to think the ways it could have been better.

The only novel thing where time was spent on during the brainstorming process is the premise. Everything around it seems to be rushed to get a movie in time. Sadly, it's not an enjoyable watch - I finished it since I started it.

What at first felt like the waste of a likable talent (Joe Manganiello) finally was an interesting idea badly developed. The dialogue was cringingly bad so I could not tell if the acting, for the most part, was as well. The fact that Manganiello managed to stay charismatic and nuanced despite huge lapses of logic and even continuity, suggests that the other actors were as bad as they seemed.

I say that it deserves a remake because it is unwatchable as it is, but with a more coherent story, better dialogue and competent actors to support Mr. Manganiello, it could be an entertaining and thought provoking hero/anti-hero film.

The one exception is the animation, which was quite effective and gave more depth to the whole production.

Poor writing, and poor supportive cast. and some logical slip ups now and there. i think the character talks too much. . when you have little to say and you know ur writing competency is not .. dostoyevski like .. try to move toward a slient movie as much as possible. 2c

Viewers on Netflix do not realize that making indie movies is one of the only legit outlets for solo auteurs determined to do their own thing without help from Hollywood. In this context, Mortimer shows he has serious skills in that he takes a weak premise -- not unlike KPAX 2001 -- and uses it like a demo reel to show his skills. Serious skills. The film is remarkably engaging and technically punches above its weight class. But at the end of the day it is still a weak premise.

This movie is one exposition after the other, from the beginning to the very end.

The protagonist talks, the boy talks, the sister talks, the bad guy talks, the archenemy talks... they have to explain the story to the viewers over and over again because the film does not do it.

The actors have very little to act upon because all they're doing is tell us what we're supposed to know.

Nice idea, very bad writing.

Acting was decent and the the way that the comic style depictions of another dimension were woven in was great. If they made a sequel I'd watch it.

The movie had possibilities but they wasted all opportunity to take advantage of them. It was poorly done.

It's not as bad as I thought it would be....its way way worse. Like people said....nice concept, but a horrible written story and poor execution.