Review by Critical Impact

Guardians 2017

Just imagine you were making the Avengers but didn't have any of the rights to it and you also didn't really have much time to come up with these things
Story
Characters
Backstory
Music

Now imagine instead you spent a lot of your time on these things
CGI
A transformation sequence of a man bear turning into an actual bear

It's like budget Avengers and it's bad but not bad in the good way like The Room is so bad it's good. I will admit there were a few times I was like whatttt though it was mostly due to the absolute stupidity of the plot or the ineptitude of the heroes in this film. There's basically only 1 bad guy and the good guys get caught almost instantly by his henchman. I'm not sure these are the heroes the generic military organization really need to sort out the world's ills.

The heroes themselves are kind of bland even if on the surface they have potential, you have
1. Man who can turn into a bear man or can turn into a full bear. Once you give him a mini gun he's about as effective. Oh and it auto targets when he's in bear form so why have it manually target at all normally? Oh and the bad guy can just punch him and knock him out
2. Rock guy, he can control earth and stones and what not, he can also go half the thing if he wants but he can't obviously cover himself entirely in stone. They upgrade his suit so he has some rocks built in along with a whip that I guess has stones in it that uses electromagnets to cut his enemies. Oh and the bad guy can just hit through his rocks and knock him out then break his spine.
3. Fast guy with blades who can basically run faster than a bullet and cut people up but is almost instantly hit with a sleep dart. Then they upgrade his suit so it has quite a large codpiece. The bad guy just punches him even though technically speaking he should be able to dispatch him with no problems.
4. Invisible lady has forgotten her past and now she's joining up to fight for the chance of getting that memory back. So she can't actually be invisible unless she's in water or apparently as long as it's raining. This power seems really specific... oh and she can resist really cold and hot stuff. Which is good because about 30 minutes in she's standing under a pipe and gets hit with something really cold and frozen solid. Sure is lucky it wasn't bear man or rock guy

Bad guy
1. Lightning/electrical man who can basically control anything with electricity in it(even things that probably need someone to physically press something). Oh and he's really strong and looks like a potato with whatever face prosthetic they used. He wants to take over the world because someone done him wrong.

The music was like some really bland version of The Avengers and I know I keep going back to that but it's hard not to compare it to it. I guess maybe you could compare it to The Fantastic Four and it might actually like quite good in comparison.

Unless you are really really bored and have a few brain cells to lose don't watch this movie. Or just watch Corridor Crew's react video where they react to bad and good russian CGI and you'll see basically enough of the movie to understand what it's all about.

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@critical_impact "A transformation sequence of a man bear turning into an actual bear"

That's a hilarious, but absolutely accurate, statement. Thanks for the strong laugh.

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