No matter if it's M. Night or I. Night, it follows the same Shyamalan recipe. Fairly good start, then stumbles upon several plotholes and results in a quite trivial ending.
I can't help it.
I've grown up with the "original" fall guy. It was good entertainment.
This movie tops it. Good story, great action, awesome fan service, very much love for detail, and lots of laughs.
A must see, IMHO.
I usually don't write movie reviews. Too much work and I don't think that many are reading my stuff anyway. But in this case I need to make an exception.
Because this movie is the perfect example for a completely misleading trailer. Because of this, I went into the theatre with the feeling, that it would be better to leave my brain at home. If it wasn't for my movie flatrate, I wouldn't have watched this one in a cinema. But, I would have missed something.
This piece of work is WAY better than the trailer suggests. It is indeed no silly slapstick like American Pie or Scary Movie. Well, honestly spoken, the story itself is quite predictable, but it was surprisingly entertaining to watch.
Not sure if this is interesting enough for all types of audiences, but if you're a fan of Nintendo, especially the Mario Bros. game series, you really really need to watch this movie. It's so packed with detail, with smaller and larger bits of fanservice, you're going to release your inner child again while enjoying this. But be warned, you might probably need more than one watch to get all the details :-)
The worst Bud Spencer & Terence Hill lookalikes ever. Don't do this.
Trailer says "no". I think I'm going to wait for the streaming media service release. German movies without Christoph Maria Herbst are usually not worth the time.
Well yes, it's a great movie... but it makes me hate humanity so hard. The "bad guys" are so realistic, I really believe that exactly this will happen if somewhere in the future a similar situation would occur somehow.
DON'T.
JUST.
DON'T.
The story is quite bad, not really surprising, but the fan service is awesome and the CGI is really entertaining.
Perfect "popcorn movie" for fans of the franchise.
But - on the other hand - this is exactly what makes the movie unwatchable for people that stopped after the first Matrix movie, since there are many references to the unwelcome movies #2 and #3, which lower the overall perception of this movie.
There are several audible and visible references that I would have missed if I didn't rewatch all three movies the day before watching this one.
Warning: do not attempt to watch this without a shitload of alcohol at reach. This movie is so incredibly brainwrecked, the producer must have been on meth or something like that to make this. Even as a SchleFaZ¹ it hurts.
¹) "Die Schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten" (worst movies of all time) - German movie series on Tele5 showing really bad movies and being commented by the two well-known comedians Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten.
I really liked this movie. It's pure comedy with a good Deadpool lookalike, a great Jodie and - as always - a weird but funny Taika. The story itself sometimes looks like it has been altered while filming, and some scenes known from the trailer are missing, but the gags are mostly fresh and the CGI is sometimes funny (intentionally pixel-esque!). Oh, and there's lots of fan service like the appearance of Captain America's Vibranium shield or a light saber from Star Wars or "Arnold Schwarzenvader" :-) and this makes the movie wonderful. Guest appearance from several "youtubers" (e.g. people without a job that make money by letting people watch them play games) are nice, but unneccessary. I don't even recognize any of them.
However, this movie is definitely something I'm going to put onto my [add primary storage compartment].
It's a nice movie, and good entertainment - if you remember to disable your logic processors before pressing "play". The story doesn't make any sense, has lots of plotholes, and the only serious actors were Pratt and Simmons. But, as said, if you disable your brain, it's fair enough.
