movieturtle2013

Star Wars has always been about politics, fascism, rebellion, and violence. And Andor depicts realistically what this looks like. It shows 'Star Wars' from a darker lens, a raw and unfiltered perspective. Reviews thinking Star Wars is a family show clearly forgot that Anakin k*lled a bunch of kids or that Order 66 literally depicted a g*noc*de. Sure, it was more quiet about it, hiding these atrocities behind cool lightsaber battles. In a way, however, the reviews were right, Star Wars is for anyone. It just doesn't mean that all of the movies, shows, books etc. Have to be catered to everyone.

As for the first three episodes so far, they were the start of the amazing continuation of the show, depicting the empire as a real threat that ruins lives, forces people wanting to live in peace to run and leave everything behind. It forces you to make sacrifices. Andor has never been shy about that and the writing handles this brilliantly.

I am confused as to how people are giving this such a high rating. It is not bad but the quality of the writing on aggregate isn't good either. The series feels disjointed. While it certainly has its moments (especially when Matt faces his inner demons or whenever Frank is on screen) the sequence of the narrative is not really focused.

We start the series strong (albeit sad), but then it quickly loses its focus and some sort of filler episodes make up the middle until the series returns to finish the main plot in a quite unsatisfying way.

The role Fisk takes on does not make sense and is comically over the top and unrealistic in the context of the universe the Daredevil series has set up. His whole stick as mayor is absurdly villainous to the point where I can't really take it seriously compared to the Netflix series where Fisk is truly evil and malignant. They tried to keep elements of that but I wasn't convinced.

Overall, however, the characters stay true to their original selves and the series is entertaining to watch, however, the story feels imprecise and like someone gave it the go while the script was still in the development stages or underwent some complete overhaul halfway through filming.

While they maintained the level of violence, it felt cheaper and the fight scenes less impactful than in the Netflix series. Many storylines and arcs feel unfinished and also are. The series ends practically nowhere. Focusing the series' writing on figuring out what Foggy was up to or to take down Fisk, Matt being obsessed with this pursuit, nearly loses everything, all this leading up to the climax of episode nine and actually continuing the story would have been much better than just ending it and making us wait for a potential second season.

Again, I am glad we got Daredevil again, but it feels off from the quality we got from the previous series.

I didn't watch any promotion, trailers etc. For this movie and went in to it completely blind (I only knew Cage was in this and what genre it was).

With that being said, I found the movie to be quite interesting, but it ended kind of out of nowhere. I expected there to be at least another 20 minutes or so. I usually agree that the audience doesn't need to be hand-fed everything and that endings can leave you with questions the movie never gives the answer to. But I did expect a little more.

Other than that, it was a solid psychological thriller with great performances (Cage and Monroe in particular). It kept the air of suspense throughout and managed to grip the audience with almost every scene.

I think that going into this movie blind is the best choice, but the end, nevertheless, might leave you unsatisfied.