JurijFedorov
Joined Oct 2004
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Acting: 4.
Dialogue: 4.
Camera work: 7.
Editing: 7.
Budget: 9.
Story: 5.
Theme: 5.
Pure entertainment factor: 6.
Pacing: 7.
Suspension of disbelief: 4.
Non-cringe factor: 4.
Lack of flashbacks: 10.
Special effects: 9.
Video quality: 8.
I know they had some issues and needed to refilm a bunch of scenes. The Marvel character wearing an Israeli flag was not really Marvel friendly after the war started. They had to fully change her character to a new Black Widow trying to string together a new plot. It definitely is an incoherent movie so no wonder it's a box office bomb. Most essential scenes are just 2 guys in a room talking about something we have not seen. Like some political deal with Japan we don't know much about. Some hand island I don't know what is. Or the president talking about his daughter who we only see for a few seconds at the very end. Everything is just debates about stuff we can't see and it's clear this is a TV show movie with a script made for a $5m combined budget story yet the fight scenes are clearly high budget and plastered in.
Do we care about the new Captain America taking the serum or not to become strong? Seems like a nobrainer as he could save way more people being superhuman. So why debate it? Who the heck knows? Anthony Mackie is also a terrible actor. It has to be said. The guy just cannot act. Harrison Ford can at times yet here he can't. The dialogue is so crap no one could act well with this script anyhow. The sidekick is the most irritating character in Marvel history. I really loved the new Black Widow. It's nice she doesn't have drones doing all her fighting and she's enormously charming the same way Scarlett Johansson was. Yet it's quite clear most of her scenes are cut. The movie would have been way better with a greater focus on her as she did the raw work. No big moral debates, no using tech to escape any situation, no sucky sidekick, no old conflicts she constantly brings up. Just raw kickass and calm personality.
There is a good movie in here if cut together properly. The issue is that it's not really a movie. It's a collection of scenes that loosely fit together. The first Captain America is a masterpiece. This? What is this even? It's not terrible and I enjoyed quite a few scenes and CGI effects. Yet I'm offended at the laziness behind the script, acting, and editing. It's not acceptable. Furthermore it's free to write a better script. Zero extra dollars. Try it.
Dialogue: 4.
Camera work: 7.
Editing: 7.
Budget: 9.
Story: 5.
Theme: 5.
Pure entertainment factor: 6.
Pacing: 7.
Suspension of disbelief: 4.
Non-cringe factor: 4.
Lack of flashbacks: 10.
Special effects: 9.
Video quality: 8.
I know they had some issues and needed to refilm a bunch of scenes. The Marvel character wearing an Israeli flag was not really Marvel friendly after the war started. They had to fully change her character to a new Black Widow trying to string together a new plot. It definitely is an incoherent movie so no wonder it's a box office bomb. Most essential scenes are just 2 guys in a room talking about something we have not seen. Like some political deal with Japan we don't know much about. Some hand island I don't know what is. Or the president talking about his daughter who we only see for a few seconds at the very end. Everything is just debates about stuff we can't see and it's clear this is a TV show movie with a script made for a $5m combined budget story yet the fight scenes are clearly high budget and plastered in.
Do we care about the new Captain America taking the serum or not to become strong? Seems like a nobrainer as he could save way more people being superhuman. So why debate it? Who the heck knows? Anthony Mackie is also a terrible actor. It has to be said. The guy just cannot act. Harrison Ford can at times yet here he can't. The dialogue is so crap no one could act well with this script anyhow. The sidekick is the most irritating character in Marvel history. I really loved the new Black Widow. It's nice she doesn't have drones doing all her fighting and she's enormously charming the same way Scarlett Johansson was. Yet it's quite clear most of her scenes are cut. The movie would have been way better with a greater focus on her as she did the raw work. No big moral debates, no using tech to escape any situation, no sucky sidekick, no old conflicts she constantly brings up. Just raw kickass and calm personality.
There is a good movie in here if cut together properly. The issue is that it's not really a movie. It's a collection of scenes that loosely fit together. The first Captain America is a masterpiece. This? What is this even? It's not terrible and I enjoyed quite a few scenes and CGI effects. Yet I'm offended at the laziness behind the script, acting, and editing. It's not acceptable. Furthermore it's free to write a better script. Zero extra dollars. Try it.
Historical accuracy: 5.
Acting: 6.
Dialogue: 6.
Camera work: 6.
Editing: 7.
Budget: 9.
Story: 5.
Theme: 5.
Pure entertainment factor: 6.
Pacing: 7.
Suspension of disbelief: 5.
Non-cringe factor: 5.
Lack of flashbacks: 10.
Special effects: 8.
Video quality: 8.
I can't get over how it never seems to find a proper genre to explore. Which is what ultimately made this a giant box office bomb. It had good music yet is way too dark to be a musical with a proper tone. Many scenes are outright gruesome and brutal, making you feel disgust. Not even sadness, just disgust by what they show you visually. Clearly not child friendy in any way yet the musical scenes are very strong so why not focus on that and make the other stuff more subdued? Why show blood on screen when it's not essential for any real life history? The whole bad boy persona is played up to a degree where it feels fake as clearly it is. Sure he's a drug addict yet clearly he was not this much of a mental case. You need to prepare for concerts and performances. Here he just does the concerts without training for anything. We see him drink and do drugs then next scene he performs on stage. So he just winged it? Of course not. And furthermore the people around him were not this crude.
Robbie Williams is obviously not a likeable guy so maybe they try to create a story with what they have. But if you can't create a more focused story, why spend $150m on a movie about a singer who is totally unknown in the biggest movie market, USA. If the story was stronger it would be more universal; anyone would just get it. Of course anyone can see this is a box office bomb by the plot alone. It never quite finds its footing despite having quality everywhere.
The acting, monkey CGI, the music numbers, music, and the more grounded scenes all are excellent. The overdramatic retelling and narration is quite bad. Frankly he's just not an interesting person. A guy who struggled in school and struggles to read or do math. A guy who was a drug addict in his early twenties. Obviously it's not a person who will say anything of note or do anything impressive anyone with decent talent couldn't replicate if they got the same chance to shine. I kinda wish they had followed another more grounded character and had Robbie be a background character. Yet besides his mom there is no other such person here. They don't even bring up his new wife or his kids. Which makes sense as, yet again, the movie is quite macabre and gruesome at times, so obviously he can't really show us any vulnerable and personal sides of him. Only the drinking and drug use as the guy is seemingly proud of being this bad boy loser persona. It works in the UK market, yet seems childish and brutish to the rest of the world. And a man with only 1 note makes for a dull character despite everything else in the movie working. He's unapologetically British lower class. Tattoos, drinking, doing drugs, partying, not studying, gossiping. It's all there of course yet hidden behind a thick layer of CGI so you don't quite feel it strong enough either. I think the average viewer may miss it and instead of it feeling like a think layer of culture it may feel like it misses the mark. Yet it's just a mish-mash without really focusing hence why you will find everything here. I can't blindly recommend it, but it's actually quite good I'd say. Not mediocre, clearly above that.
Acting: 6.
Dialogue: 6.
Camera work: 6.
Editing: 7.
Budget: 9.
Story: 5.
Theme: 5.
Pure entertainment factor: 6.
Pacing: 7.
Suspension of disbelief: 5.
Non-cringe factor: 5.
Lack of flashbacks: 10.
Special effects: 8.
Video quality: 8.
I can't get over how it never seems to find a proper genre to explore. Which is what ultimately made this a giant box office bomb. It had good music yet is way too dark to be a musical with a proper tone. Many scenes are outright gruesome and brutal, making you feel disgust. Not even sadness, just disgust by what they show you visually. Clearly not child friendy in any way yet the musical scenes are very strong so why not focus on that and make the other stuff more subdued? Why show blood on screen when it's not essential for any real life history? The whole bad boy persona is played up to a degree where it feels fake as clearly it is. Sure he's a drug addict yet clearly he was not this much of a mental case. You need to prepare for concerts and performances. Here he just does the concerts without training for anything. We see him drink and do drugs then next scene he performs on stage. So he just winged it? Of course not. And furthermore the people around him were not this crude.
Robbie Williams is obviously not a likeable guy so maybe they try to create a story with what they have. But if you can't create a more focused story, why spend $150m on a movie about a singer who is totally unknown in the biggest movie market, USA. If the story was stronger it would be more universal; anyone would just get it. Of course anyone can see this is a box office bomb by the plot alone. It never quite finds its footing despite having quality everywhere.
The acting, monkey CGI, the music numbers, music, and the more grounded scenes all are excellent. The overdramatic retelling and narration is quite bad. Frankly he's just not an interesting person. A guy who struggled in school and struggles to read or do math. A guy who was a drug addict in his early twenties. Obviously it's not a person who will say anything of note or do anything impressive anyone with decent talent couldn't replicate if they got the same chance to shine. I kinda wish they had followed another more grounded character and had Robbie be a background character. Yet besides his mom there is no other such person here. They don't even bring up his new wife or his kids. Which makes sense as, yet again, the movie is quite macabre and gruesome at times, so obviously he can't really show us any vulnerable and personal sides of him. Only the drinking and drug use as the guy is seemingly proud of being this bad boy loser persona. It works in the UK market, yet seems childish and brutish to the rest of the world. And a man with only 1 note makes for a dull character despite everything else in the movie working. He's unapologetically British lower class. Tattoos, drinking, doing drugs, partying, not studying, gossiping. It's all there of course yet hidden behind a thick layer of CGI so you don't quite feel it strong enough either. I think the average viewer may miss it and instead of it feeling like a think layer of culture it may feel like it misses the mark. Yet it's just a mish-mash without really focusing hence why you will find everything here. I can't blindly recommend it, but it's actually quite good I'd say. Not mediocre, clearly above that.
