5.0 ? YOU SONS OF BITCHES !!!!


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Too high or too low?

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TOO LOW !!

WAY TOO !

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I think it's a bit low too, but not that much. The film was pretty mediocre.

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It's alot better than thother ones, but it does let itself down.

Gresh looks terrible, his voice is lame (I always imagined he would sound a bit like horatio from CSI, a young voice but tinged with menacing) the Skrall and bonehunters could not be more lame, Tuma, while cool, was barely in it and should have been more of a threat, had more involvment as the master-planner of the whole thing. He should have had a big-ass fight with Gresh, Mata Nui Ackar and Kiina all having to fight against him to finally taking him down after a long gruelling battle.

Strakk and Ackar were good though, and beryx, what can I say ? Perfect casting with James Arnold Taylor.

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Yeah, the villains were incredibly poorly handled. So were most of the fights. So was... I'd say almost everything else in the movie, aside from some of the voices.


I still prefer the other three, because despite having their share of stupidness, they had this nice "epic" feel to them, which this movie lacked almost entirely, and I liked their cinematography and overall creativity better. Also, the music. TLR's music was just standard, cheap-feeling kids' movie fare.

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I can't say I'd agree with you there.

The fight scenes were much better, have you seen the fight with Ackar and Straak ? Then the one with Mata Nui and Straak ?

When I used to play with my bionicles the fights would be very intense, limbs being cut off with a metallic clang, explosions and all the great stuff you got in the Beast Wars series when they were fighting.

They'd move very fast and actually die if they lost, that was cool.

So while the LRB doesn't quite capture that, it does come reasonabley close. The music was mostly good, from what I remember.

However, that lame thing at the ending where he looks at a Skrall shield and says "Hey, this is a maze ! Look: I can put my finger through it liek a maze ! It must lead to somethuing ! LULZ !" was so tacked on and lame.

I may be saying that partly because I had already figured out it looked like a maze, but they put it in the movie like they were freaking dumbasses who had just figured it out at the last minute and thought "Woah ! This has got to go in the movie ! We is so smart for figuring that out ! Lets make it seem like that was the idea all along ! (click click clomp) nobody will ever suspect that we only thought of it at the last minute, hohoho".

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I dunno... the fight choreography was pretty bland and slow. Like, almost every time a character swiped with its sword, the action would stop for a moment, allowing another character to land a hit. It felt like tired, sleepy kids playing with the toys and taking turns hitting each other. There was no intensity, no clever moves, just the characters waving their weapons around... the exception being the Vastus VS Tarix fight. That was pretty good, if awfully short.

The earlier movies suffered from bad fights as well, but I can sort of forgive that due to the strict violence guidelines LEGO and the movie distributors had at the time... and even so, what little fighting they had was at least relatively well filmed. For instance, Takanuva's and Makuta's big Kolhii match was insanely stupid, but it was still an action-packed and intense scene. TLR had real fights, but they felt slow and dull.


The ending was tacked-on, yeah. I agree, that entire scene was nothing more than a set-up for the sequel that obviously never materialized. Still, at least they tried setting up some potential ideas, as they couldn't have known back then that the sequel would be canceled. It's just too bad that without a sequel, the scene became pointless and a bit confusing.

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