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Boring, derivative and sterile

posted 3 years ago by Painter (37)
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I watched the movie for Emily Blunt alone, because she's usually the saving grace of a lot of movies she stars in. And she did it again.

Played by a lesser actress Lily would've been the usual insufferable Mary Sue Rey style, but Emily made the caharcter tolerable by making her charming.

The Rock just diin't belong to this movie. I usually like him, but he was severely miscast here and Frank was two-dimensional as they come.

MacGregor's whole character arc is: I'm gay! A token character whose main trait doesen't even add or detract anything from the movie. Way to go...

Paul Giamatti's Nilo is the prime example on how to waste a very good character actor in a pointless cameo.

The CGI was mediocre at best and Proxima was abysmal as all the other animals. I guess they didn't want to scare too much the children in the audience.

It's too long. It drags at times and there's a lot of fat to trim. The whole part with the tribe could've easily been cut in half time for example.

Germans as bad guys again. Oh Lord. On the other hand the whole movie is a big fat stereotype, so why not?

The whole time I was thinking Pirates of the Caribbeans: Dead's Man Chest. Wonder why? I was also thinking The Mummy (1999) and that is still the better movie. Way better.

The love story is meh. The Rock has no romantic charisma, no chemistry with Emily and ultimately a 400 hundred years old falling for a 30-35 years old woman is just gross and implausible.

I guess a sequel is inevitable. Hope Emily sues Disney so she can stay out of their run-of-the-mill-cgi-heavy crapfests.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Spot on.

[–] Xcalat3 (3717) 3 years ago

/I watched the movie for Emily Blunt alone, because she's usually the saving grace of a lot of movies she stars in. And she did it again./

Same for me, She's lovely makes almost anything worth watching but yeah this movie is just mediocre at best and doesnt stand out at all in a sea of similar adventure movies.

[–] TandyMan (10638) 3 years ago

I don't think there was a single scene in this movie I hadn't seen before. I thought Blunt was absolutely adorable in this, and the Rock playing something of more funny than usual character was enjoyable. My biggest problem is man, they were beating their jokes to death. Kept repeating the same bits over and over throughout the entire film. Don't know what to say about the movie really. I think kids who haven't spent their lives watching these sorts of movies will enjoy it.

[–] TandyMan (10638) 3 years ago

The messaging in this movie is scattered and bizarre, not that I think they spent two seconds thinking about such things. Blunt is portrayed as a headstrong feminist who butts heads with macho Rock. He's the same person before his reveal as after. Yet the minute she hears his backstory and learns that he's super duper special, all is not only forgiven, she's hot on his junk. I don't even know what they're trying to say about women with this nonsense.