demonizer84
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I have no idea how people are rating this so highly ...... Really makes me wonder what they consider as bad ...
I get each to their own and everyone should make their own mind up, and for me this movie was a drag to get through .
What is around 30 minutes felt like 30 days , the acting is dull ,the scenes are often too dark , the story is none existent , if you want any answers or reason of events you get none .
Then there's the creatures .... Almost comedy like , every time you got a half decent look at them I was left scratching my head and wondering what the hell I was meant to be looking at and who thought the design was a good idea .....
Utter tripe is the short version of the review .
I get each to their own and everyone should make their own mind up, and for me this movie was a drag to get through .
What is around 30 minutes felt like 30 days , the acting is dull ,the scenes are often too dark , the story is none existent , if you want any answers or reason of events you get none .
Then there's the creatures .... Almost comedy like , every time you got a half decent look at them I was left scratching my head and wondering what the hell I was meant to be looking at and who thought the design was a good idea .....
Utter tripe is the short version of the review .
I know this has been in the pipeline for a while and had rewrites and been in a bit of development hell for a while , so I was never expecting anything amazing .
Also as much as I enjoy the original for it being a product of it's time and the macho man rocker movie for the boys ,that doesn't fit in today's world.
What gave me a little hope was seeing gyllenhall attached as he's pretty good in most things iv watched him in , and this is no different , what he has to work with is decent enough for what surrounds him .
Where it falls apart is the rest of the film , I suppose if you are at the target age of 15 and a casual MMA fan this will bring you some joy , but anyone else who misses when movies were actually good ,this is going to disappoint.
The 2 stand out stinkers are the big bads.magnussen and McGregor , magnussen I can't see him as thr bumbling idiot prince from Aladdin and McGregor ..... Oof he's bad , he likes to show his big pearly whites , walks around with some stupid hunch and cartoon villain swag , and his accent ..... I'm not sure what it's meant to be , it really is a throwback to something out of the 80s a bad B movie or a Baywatch hench man , which doesn't fit with the rest of the movie . Far too much coke and too many roids have made him one very strange character and it shows .
There are a few throwbacks to the original which are more eye rolling than anything else , all put together it actually feels a chore to sit through and I had to check the clock A few times wondering how slow can 2 hours be.
I wanted to enjoy this movie and really had trouble doing so .
Give it a watch and make your own mind up but don't go in expecting anything other than less than mediocre time filler .
Also as much as I enjoy the original for it being a product of it's time and the macho man rocker movie for the boys ,that doesn't fit in today's world.
What gave me a little hope was seeing gyllenhall attached as he's pretty good in most things iv watched him in , and this is no different , what he has to work with is decent enough for what surrounds him .
Where it falls apart is the rest of the film , I suppose if you are at the target age of 15 and a casual MMA fan this will bring you some joy , but anyone else who misses when movies were actually good ,this is going to disappoint.
The 2 stand out stinkers are the big bads.magnussen and McGregor , magnussen I can't see him as thr bumbling idiot prince from Aladdin and McGregor ..... Oof he's bad , he likes to show his big pearly whites , walks around with some stupid hunch and cartoon villain swag , and his accent ..... I'm not sure what it's meant to be , it really is a throwback to something out of the 80s a bad B movie or a Baywatch hench man , which doesn't fit with the rest of the movie . Far too much coke and too many roids have made him one very strange character and it shows .
There are a few throwbacks to the original which are more eye rolling than anything else , all put together it actually feels a chore to sit through and I had to check the clock A few times wondering how slow can 2 hours be.
I wanted to enjoy this movie and really had trouble doing so .
Give it a watch and make your own mind up but don't go in expecting anything other than less than mediocre time filler .
Ok so this is a movie IV contemplated watching for a while , I have always been dubious and not sure it was something I'd enjoy .
I had the impression it would be a dull artsy farty bore fest so skipped it.
Tonight I decided to give it a go and surprisingly it hooked me more or less straight away. I find some of these indie films really well done and it's always good to see the handsome barman and I chuckled as Finn turns up ( misfits fans will get this)
I thought for what clearly was a low budget movie the acting was spot on until later in the movie and the characters even whilst mostly in a single location had good chemistry and kept you intrigued and wanting to learn more about them and what exactly is going on .
Down the line another character enters the fray and it was about here where I was totally invested and wanted to see how things played out , I was already in the head writing the story of what I was about to watch and was thinking to myself wow this is actually really a good movie and not at all what I was expected ........ then it all went a bit wrong .
I would stop reading here if you want zero spoilers . I'm not going to spoil the plot or how things turn out but even with little said I think anything given away it may spoil your viewing pleasure or put you off completely ,however if this is not a factor then read on.......
So as the movie starts to get you really drawn in ,it all comes across a little rushed I was really expecting another 30 mins or more and would of easily watched maybe another 60 of these characters going a certain way , hearing some backstory and have a fitting conclusion ....
But what gets set up I can only explain as you have a sudden overwhelming case of diarrhoea, no matter what you are doing you just have to get up and go no matter how serious or important what you were doing previously was .
This is how I felt with this movie , everything was good ,everyone was sitting comfortably and then wham! Diarrhoea! Woosh it's over and gone , and in the words of the great Ron Burgundy himself you are left thinking wow that escalated quickly .
I was at this stage questioning myself with a literal ... wait ? What? Ok then ? .... then the movie changes scenes and you are like oh ok now we are going to see things from another angle and get closure...... nope roll credits .
It left a really sour taste as it got me hooked and then it's like they just gave up and wrapped up far too quickly out of nowhere .
Overall I'd say it's worth a watch , but if you ain't a fan of abrupt movie endings ,or movies not answering questions or leaving things ambiguous then maybe give this one a skip.
I had the impression it would be a dull artsy farty bore fest so skipped it.
Tonight I decided to give it a go and surprisingly it hooked me more or less straight away. I find some of these indie films really well done and it's always good to see the handsome barman and I chuckled as Finn turns up ( misfits fans will get this)
I thought for what clearly was a low budget movie the acting was spot on until later in the movie and the characters even whilst mostly in a single location had good chemistry and kept you intrigued and wanting to learn more about them and what exactly is going on .
Down the line another character enters the fray and it was about here where I was totally invested and wanted to see how things played out , I was already in the head writing the story of what I was about to watch and was thinking to myself wow this is actually really a good movie and not at all what I was expected ........ then it all went a bit wrong .
I would stop reading here if you want zero spoilers . I'm not going to spoil the plot or how things turn out but even with little said I think anything given away it may spoil your viewing pleasure or put you off completely ,however if this is not a factor then read on.......
So as the movie starts to get you really drawn in ,it all comes across a little rushed I was really expecting another 30 mins or more and would of easily watched maybe another 60 of these characters going a certain way , hearing some backstory and have a fitting conclusion ....
But what gets set up I can only explain as you have a sudden overwhelming case of diarrhoea, no matter what you are doing you just have to get up and go no matter how serious or important what you were doing previously was .
This is how I felt with this movie , everything was good ,everyone was sitting comfortably and then wham! Diarrhoea! Woosh it's over and gone , and in the words of the great Ron Burgundy himself you are left thinking wow that escalated quickly .
I was at this stage questioning myself with a literal ... wait ? What? Ok then ? .... then the movie changes scenes and you are like oh ok now we are going to see things from another angle and get closure...... nope roll credits .
It left a really sour taste as it got me hooked and then it's like they just gave up and wrapped up far too quickly out of nowhere .
Overall I'd say it's worth a watch , but if you ain't a fan of abrupt movie endings ,or movies not answering questions or leaving things ambiguous then maybe give this one a skip.