It's certainly not the best plot ever. That said, it was a greatly entertaining experience due to the number and quality of the action sequences. They're well edited, and well choreographed. It felt like a great Terminator-style action movie from the '80s/'90s bu shot with more modern technology.
From a technical perspective, the movie is outstanding and shows off the benefits of shooting a movie at a framerate higher than 23.976 fps very well. The 3D was solid too, and certainly a welcome experience (as it is for every movie that gets a 3D release), but the 3D ended up taking a backseat to the real draw of the higher framerate.
120 FPS was a great choice particularly for an action movie like this one and I'm happy to see someone in Hollywood willing to be innovative instead of just doing things for the sake of "that's how it's always been done."
From the opening train sequence to flying scenes or scenes that take place in water, it really gives everything an increased sense of speed that looks more close to how these activities would go down in real life. During the action sequences I felt like I was watching a fight taking place right in front of me instead of watching a fight that was recorded on a camera. There was a certain added level of engagement that I normally only feel when playing a modern video game. I think this high framerate technology is going to be a game changer, especially for action movies, if we can just get some of these old fogeys in Hollywood to start dying off and pass the torch on to younger directors who have grown up consuming higher framerate media.
You're certainly going to have the typical peanut gallery of boomers who grew up watching exclusively 23.976 films who have been brainwashed into thinking that a framerate considerably slower than the human eye can process is somehow more "realistic," but hopefully as we see more high framerate movies it will eventually be an adopted video improvement standard like color, widescreen, higher resolutions, surround sound, and HDR. As those older generations kick the bucket you will see less and less opposition to more realistic higher framerates in movies and eventually the majority of the population will think that slideshow framerate 23.976 movies are the ones that look "weird."
The inevitable 4K Blu-ray release with a framerate of 60 FPS is going to be the way to go for this movie, until we get some future format that can deliver the full 4K 3D 120 FPS. If you can see it in a cinema that can play it at 120 FPS, I highly recommend it, but even 60 FPS should be a considerable improvement over your typical movie's framerate.
I was going to give this dumb movie a 9/10 but the final scene at the credits cemented it as a 10/10. People giving this low scores must be absolutely humorless people. Also I’m not even old. I never played any of this stuff in arcades, but you still have to be living under a rock to not recognize Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids, Frogger, etc. even if you are a zoomer.
Outstanding. One of the best Christmas movies ever made
One of the most boring movies ever made. At least it's native 4K + HDR so it looks pretty during the monotony.
Not nearly as bad as the critics made it out to be. Better than X-Men: The Last Stand and overall one of the most entertaining in the series. I'm not disappointed I saw it.
Great 3D effect too. Shame there's not going to be any 3D Blu-ray release of it anywhere in the world. What a waste of a good 3D conversion.
This movie has a wide gulf between audience scores and critic scores. As if we needed further evidence that critics are garbage
First one was better.
Disney quality, this is not.
The human sections drag down what was otherwise a very entertaining monster movie with a semi-decent lore behind it. The human characters are just so unbearably annoying and behave in an irrational manner at all times.
I cringed every time the camera cut to the protagonist's family struggling right in the middle of the monsters fighting, as if I was supposed to give one flying fuck about any of them.
Godzilla stepping on the whole lot of 'em and putting them out of their misery while they were driving the Humvee during the fight scene near the end of the movie, or better yet, much earlier in the film when they were all in in Antarctica, would have bumped my score for this movie up by several points.
Theatrical Cut - 4/10
Director's Cut with the proper ending - 6/10
Classic example of the theatrical release of a movie being vastly inferior to the home video release. I recommend watching this on Blu-ray and trying to forget that that 1987 theatrical cut ever existed.
What a dumb plot. Love the worldbuilding and the animation though.
Keep it up guys. This is the first Pokémon movie I've seen that wasn't terrible. I don't regret watching it at all. That's high praise for a Pokémon movie. This live action + CG render combination is the way to go.
Too many plotholes. Very slow start. What's the deal with Iron Man getting a funeral but not Black Widow? A very overhyped sequel that doesn't live up to the hype.
I enjoyed Captain Marvel more than this one tbh
It's a bad Quiet Place. So many logical inconsistences. The bats are too vulnerable and stupid. Given the wide array of tactics that worked against these creatures from bullets to fire to wood chippers, it just seemed unbelievable that this would be an apocalyptic scenario.
Just build some giant wood chippers on wheels and drive around with speakers blaring. They could clear out a city infestation in a day.
Oh please. It wasn't that bad. Not every science fiction movie has to be a bang bang shooty shoot fest. For an apocalyptic movie it was strangely relaxing and had a strange degree of comfiness to it. And it ended on a positive note. I'd recommend it if you like science fiction but are also in the mood to watch something easygoing.