I loved the first one but where do I even start with this ?
Not only does the story take place in 1984 but the whole movie feels like it's been made in the same year. Like those early superhero movies that you watch today and wonder what they were smoking back then. The script is bad. It does hold just enough water for maybe an hour long TV episode on any CW show but not a 150 min movie. It is full of boring fillers. The charcaters are so cheesy and clichéd that you, again, feel thrown back to the 80s movies. CGI is below mediocre by todays standards. Where did that 200 m$ budget go? Acting is subpar by everyone and I know that they can act better so I have to assume it is indeed the weak script doing that. The action sequences are nothing to get exciting about. They just roll along. Everything culmulates into a weak finale. The big fight that wasn't one and a Hollywood fairy tale ending that is delivered with the grace of a sledge hammer.
I had hoped that this movie would save the movie year 2020 put it just couldn't deliver. Maybe they should not have held it back so long as I think the high expectations are an issue here, too.
It could have been I was just expecting too much but taking a look at the ratings everywhere I probably wasn't the only one.
Review by FinFanBlockedParent2020-12-26T22:16:04Z
I loved the first one but where do I even start with this ?
Not only does the story take place in 1984 but the whole movie feels like it's been made in the same year. Like those early superhero movies that you watch today and wonder what they were smoking back then.
The script is bad. It does hold just enough water for maybe an hour long TV episode on any CW show but not a 150 min movie. It is full of boring fillers. The charcaters are so cheesy and clichéd that you, again, feel thrown back to the 80s movies.
CGI is below mediocre by todays standards. Where did that 200 m$ budget go? Acting is subpar by everyone and I know that they can act better so I have to assume it is indeed the weak script doing that. The action sequences are nothing to get exciting about. They just roll along.
Everything culmulates into a weak finale. The big fight that wasn't one and a Hollywood fairy tale ending that is delivered with the grace of a sledge hammer.
I had hoped that this movie would save the movie year 2020 put it just couldn't deliver. Maybe they should not have held it back so long as I think the high expectations are an issue here, too.
It could have been I was just expecting too much but taking a look at the ratings everywhere I probably wasn't the only one.