Meh: The Movie

Haywire did produce better action and so did Atomic Blonde. Yes you heard me correctly. Go ahead attempt to refute that statement.

Where did I say it had to use certain fight choreography? I listed Haywire which is martial arts but is far more grounded with it's fight scenes. The fights in that are actually quite realistic. Then I listed the Raid and other films where the fights are super stylized. Two different ends of the spectrum here. Oh you can logically break down why an action sequence are good or bad. All you have to do is have logical reasoning. Look at the choreography, the editing, the cinematography etc.

Again did I say those things did not matter? You said they criticize a video game where two fighters throw punches and kicks at each other as if the plot is deep or compelling. Sounds to me like you are the one who does not care about plot. I brought up John Wick showing you that it is a simple cliché revenge story. Want to know why it works though because it is structured properly. I was showing you that a simple plot can be done well and fans of Mortal Kombat would be perfectly fine with it if it delivered on this level. This film does not deliver on any level. The fights are bad and the story is even worse. So okay lets say I did not critique the fights, was the story structure good? No it was not. The story is not coherent at all. What made the villains interesting? Kano and Kabal were probably the only interesting villains that had potential. Mileena completely throwaway, Shang Tsung barely had any lines. Why have Cole's character in it? Why create a character for the movie to be the main when Mortal Kombat has a host of other characters to choose from?

The opening of the film actually was not bad. It was not great it was competent though. It takes a gigantic nose dive off of a cliff after that though.

I think the film was meh for the time but I feel it has aged terribly. I did not like the cliché storyline of having Shang Tsung kill Liu Kang's brother and that it was pg-13. This is Mortal Kombat we are talking about here.

Oh man we could not disagree more here. I can not stand Paul W.S. Anderson films. I think he is a hack director for hire who is only in it for the money. He takes a product and will gladly water it down for the sake of money. His choice of music is always so poser wanna be cool. It only worked for Mortal Kombat. He feels like a 14 year old kid trying to be cool. He thinks nothing about how logical the plot is. AVP I found to be dreadful! I love Alien and Aliens to pieces. The production design on the first two is simply stunning. An iconic female action heroin in Ripley who is not a political statement. AVP is pg-13 again he waters down another franchise. How do you make Alien pg-13? You ever seen the old ones? Predator and Alien were scary a large part because of the gruesome way those creatures kill their victims. AVP also technically looks like crap. It looks like a direct to video film. Why does it look so much worse than the previous films that came decades before it? Look at Blade Runner 2049 that looks stunning you could see they tried to match the technical brilliance of the first. Why does the main lead say you are one ugly mofo to the wrong creature? She says it to the Alien when that is a line that is said to the Predator. Why is the Predator somewhere cold when it is made clear that it likes it hot places in the first two? Doesn't that make it able to see people by their heat? I just hate vs movies. The vs showdown always is disappointing as well.