mrsatyre
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BIG fan of Gareth Evans, but this film... Nothing about any of it works. The vibes are all wrong, the cast is wrong, the pacing is wrong, the effects are too glossy and are, frankly, a mockery of the gritty realism of his past action films, plus the poor lighting and coloring add up to an unwatchable mess. Many of the character development scenes are too long, and can actually be skipped completely without negatively impacting your understanding and following of the plot, such as it is. Havoc actually looks like someone was trying to make a movie in the same style as Gareth Evans, but failed miserably.
If you're looking for first-rate action, this isn't it.
If you're looking for first-rate action, this isn't it.
A great deal of the dialog and storyline could have been drawn from rejected scripts for Mad Men. It's not as if Your Friends and Neighbors is trying to completely rip off the former, but there are so many characters, character flaws, situations and corresponding results/fallout in YF&N that seem custom-tailored to Mad Men, it quickly gets a little disorienting after a while. Are you watching YF&N, or are you watching Mad Men?
It's a bit of a disservice not only Jon Hamm, but to everyone else on board, as the emotive responses from both the characters and the viewers, which are inevitably common between the two shows, will always hang over YF&N like an albatross. Original...and yet not.
It's a bit of a disservice not only Jon Hamm, but to everyone else on board, as the emotive responses from both the characters and the viewers, which are inevitably common between the two shows, will always hang over YF&N like an albatross. Original...and yet not.
...this comes from Watanabe Shirow, because it lacks everything that made Cowboy Bebop so damned good.
The characters in Lazarus are two-dimensional, with nothing remotely interesting about them. They're boring, predictable, lazy, and stereotyped/clichèd. The dialog is pedantic, and the English dub is excruciatingly stilted and painfully slow. The storyline is just virtue-signaling scolding nonsense (I watch anime to be preached to? Who knew? Not me). And then there's the antagonist who has a completely contradictory agenda: everyone's to blame, so I'm going to kill everyone, except no I'm not, because if you can find me everyone will live. Huh?
The entire first episode has 15 minutes of parkour because...? I don't know either. But I do know it got really stale after the first five minutes.
The characters in Lazarus are two-dimensional, with nothing remotely interesting about them. They're boring, predictable, lazy, and stereotyped/clichèd. The dialog is pedantic, and the English dub is excruciatingly stilted and painfully slow. The storyline is just virtue-signaling scolding nonsense (I watch anime to be preached to? Who knew? Not me). And then there's the antagonist who has a completely contradictory agenda: everyone's to blame, so I'm going to kill everyone, except no I'm not, because if you can find me everyone will live. Huh?
The entire first episode has 15 minutes of parkour because...? I don't know either. But I do know it got really stale after the first five minutes.