....I didn't like it.
There was no plot.
There was no literary protagonist. There IS a main character, though.
When I say plot, I mean an objective that the protagonist is after from the beginning; Some kind of imbalance that they sense needs to be rectified or corrected. When there is no objective, there is no obstacles in their way, either. This movie is 3.5 hours of, just, things that happen and it never clues the audience in on the endgame...so there's also hardly any climax, either. Its just, this happens, then that, then that, then that...with characters you can't really call "likeable" or "rootable" I wouldn't have cared if DeNiro died at any given moment in the film because I couldn't connect with him.
The day that Ben Affleck stops being Batman is the day that Batman comes back to become the best superhero films of all. This guy with 0 acting skills is destroying it. Too many awesome films before him to let it pass.
Wait. What!? WTF did I just watch?
It was so bad. I dont know why it had such good reviews. There was no sherlock element in the whole movie. Waste of time really.
And once again the freshly baked, first-time captain is the American Hero saving the day and awing the world against the bad, evil Kriegsmarine, which, as we all know, only consisted of sadistic Nazis howling over radio like a delirious drunken man while engaging the enemy. Straight historic facts.
And obviously the captain has a soft spot for the coloured cook Cleveland, who tragically parishes in an attack. Except the fact that the navy didn't allow coloured people on their ships until 1948 while this cheap propaganda piece is set in 1942. Except the Kriegsmarine was known to be the least Nazified service in the German war machine.
Why the directors/writers of cheesy sh*t like this always try to rewrite history, I don't know.
Seriously, watch "Das Boot" or "The Enemy Below". Don't waste your time with this garbage.
Because Natasha is always described as this awesome super spy, I really thought this movie would be kind of an over-the-top James Bond movie. I mean, you've got a Soviet Big Bad Guy with an evil lair and evil plan, like in the old school Bond films. I was very happy early on in the movie, with the Soviet agents couple undercover in Ohio, and then when Nat tries to lay low after Civil War. But then it switched from a potentially cool spy movie (and original for a Marvel) to a classic super hero movie.
So instead we got an over-the-top Agents of SHIELD episode. Every hero is sub-par, except Taskmaster, which doesn't even get that much screen time. The second most powerful hero, Red Guardian, is ridiculed all the time and doesn't really have an opportunity to shine. I thought the prison escape would be that. I mean, Netflix did a crazy good prison fight scene in The Punisher, but Marvel couldn't even remotely top that in a huge production? Very disappointed by all the missed opportunities.
Technically marvelous but I felt nothing watching this. No thrills, no suspense, nada.
Watching this feels like watching two different movies. The first movie is one in which jokes are forced and music feels shoehorned in. It feels like the writers and director are beating you over the head trying to make the point of "look, look, remember us? remember how you liked music and jokes the last time?" For me the first half of this movie is a poor imitation of the first Guardians of the Galaxy. 6/10.
All of this changes around an hour into the movie however. Once they actually started moving forward with the plot, this movie becomes something special. The second half of this movie is perhaps the best thing that Marvel Studios has put to screen. It is so heartfelt and moving, the comedy lands PERFECTLY every time, and the movie makers allow us as an audience to remember what we loved about these characters the first time around organically. The second half of this movie is almost flawless.
Special mention to Dave Bautista's Drax... by far and away the character that stole the show. HILARIOUS!
can't get over quite how bad this film is, complete and utter bollox. avoid.
This movie was great because I fell asleep in the theater and had an amazing nap
This is a big, huge,massive pile of crap. This looks a parody of a proper movie. The crappy humor, the absurd scenes, a 5 yoers old-written script it just makes me want to shoot myself. Won't comment the movie itself because it's not worth the time.
I’m not the target audience for this movie … I’ve seen a total of 2 marvel movies containing Thor so really I’ve got no clue what a good marvel movie is and what a bad one is. I am struggling to understand who the target audience was though …. 14 year old girls maybe. Holy crap that was all sorts of cliche and bad acting. Why oh why would these stars attach themselves to such horrible story-telling and movie making. I suspect though have no proof that G’n’R have a reunion tour or album coming up and pulled in a marketing / publicity favour. This is definitely not inspiring me to see more marvel movies.
I won't remember a bit of this in six months. The acting is overall quite good, but the story-line is... boring? That's not quite fair. It's just uninspiring.
A cute movie but the more forgettable from Disney this year. Definitely shouldn’t win best animated film. It’s mostly just loud and sort of uneven. With Mirabei randomly bonding with family members.
I have seen the movie again since then and it has grown on me more.
This is a popcorn movie. Nothing more. I understood that going in. It's not high art. It doesn't revolutionize movie-making, and is not even the high point of the genre. But it's entertaining, and that's all I ask of a movie. Give me some popcorn and a Coke, and dim the lights, let me forget about the world for a couple hours, and I'm happy.
The bit that really annoyed me was the baby finding her mother after the unstoning it makes no sense if the gap was 6 years and her mother was in that city then how did she get stoned and the baby was no older than 2 it is awful how many narrative points made no sense. like why did the claw girl bring a cross bow to a peaceful exchange either way, she wouldn't have got what she wanted there were so many other plot points that could have been avoided. And another thing Disney couldn't afford a voice actors for the other dragons what is with that. the first fragment they pickup is dark and has that skeleton holding the fragment and how that person is rigged up to the trap that is so disgusting there would have to had been someone to hookup a skeleton (or a dead person) to a booby trap. truly horrifying.
I feel ashamed of even watching this thing till the end. I kept telling myself, "It's boring for a reason, any minute now there will be a twist and everything will make sense and be funny". Well there isn't a twist it's just boring and senseless till the end.
Oh, fuck off.
It's a mess of a naive masturbatory rock fantasy played out by a whole bunch of shitty actors and Malcolm McDowell.
"Words spoken by people in a 1930s & 40s American accent which no one gives a shit about : The most boring movie of 2020" (2020) was the original title of this movie, i don't know why they changed it to Mank (2020)
Quite an obvious film from the beginning. It has some lovely shots and I liked the ending despite it's predictability. Liked the history of it and it's importance. Not a poor film by any stretch - it just held the viewer's hand a bit too much. The girl Helena Zengel is so brilliant, such a natural little smile - anyone who enjoyed her performance should seek out 'System Crasher' which was one of the best films of 2020.
5.9/10
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is like a Disney cartoon of the Lindsay Lohan trial: it's an interesting Hollywood production, though I would've preferred less of a fantasy and a film closer to reality.
After 5 minutes of research online, I discovered that the most inspirational parts of the film never happened, and this deflated the buoyant feeling I had while watching it. Oh well, it had a good cast.
sorry spike. movie was slow and at times unbelieveable.
Oh my God, could this movie be any worse. The laws of physics can be bent in super hero movies sure, but completely ignored it seems in this case. And the plot was so easy to predict, but the resolution at the end seemed so lazy. Where did the team for the first movie go, I get that they hire cheaper staff where they can for sequels to save money, but it seems like they got a bunch of amateurs to work on this one.
trash ending. please don't bother with this film
What probably could have been a great movie is molested and completely destroyed by ill performed time jumps and dream scenes, it made me loose interest about half way in.
Such a terrible waste of story and talent.
no. that guy was a jackass, embarrasses her ON THE JOB. he takes advantage of her, they get together and he gives her the cold shoulder for being ambitious. not just being ambitious - fulfilling her dream! it's hard to stay unbiased when she's so pretty but like let her live her life ffs.
