I love action films more than could be considered healthy and even love all of Jason Statham's mindless violence films so my bar is pretty low, but these films are just so meh.
I truly could not care less about the characters or the plot, the only thing that makes it worthwhile are the action sequences (and I like Sofia Boutella). There is just no emotional connection to the characters at all despite them desperately trying to make us feel something for them and two films in and still nothing is really making any sense and we've had no answers.
Will i be watching the next one? Most certainly, so that maybe I'll at least get some answers as to what's going on.
story = 3/10
acting/cast = 4/10
music = 6/10
rewatch value = 2/10
overall = 5/10
I've never watched this as a kid but with the willow series just launched, I thought it was a good idea to get some backstory. From the reviews here I can see that a lot of people like the movie... For me, not so much. It's not bad, and it's not good - It just is. It might be because I don't have the nostalgic childhood feeling associated with it.
I really can't say much happened in the story. There wasn't a lot of depth, backstory or reasoning behind anything. Honestly, from start to finish, nothing truly happens. One major thing that made me want to give up was the pacing - an hour in and I was sure 2 hours had passed and that this was a 3-hour movie. Nothing happens for a really long time and then nothing continues to happen. All in all, it's very lacklustre.
For anyone about to watch because of the new Willow series, you can skip this because you won't miss anything and it won't give any more backstory than the wiki page (and in episode 1 the first two minutes summarise this entire movie just as well as watching it did).
Story = 2/10
Acting/Cast = 3/10
Music = 1/10
Rewatch Value = 0/10
Overall = 3/10
I didn't expect much from this film and while it won't go into the hall of fame, it was really good.
Was pure action with a little plot but sometimes simple works. If you're looking for a movie that is essentially one long fight scene and love swords then this is for you.
Abandoned 1-hour and 10 minutes in
The pacing of this was awful. I looked up and 1-hour had passed but it felt like only 10 minutes worth of the story has been told as it was so slow and nothing of worth had happened in 50 minutes.
I don't understand why they market movies as something it isn't it. It can only lead to disappointment. Everything in the trailer was shown within the first 20 minutes because they were trying to show this movie as something it wasn't so used * all** the noteworthy scenes and what was left was bland and boring.
The main issue here was pacing though as the Alexander was brilliant.
A dreadful backstory that makes you think the entire movie has a £5 budget and no actors who took acting lessons, but if you sit through the first 5 minutes it is a good enough movie.
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Story = 5/10
Production Design = 6/10
Soundtrack = 3/10
Acting = 7/10 (ignoring the backstory)
Total = 6/10
No real depth to the characters or plot. Feels like they tried to fit 3 seasons of a tv show worth of plots and characters into one movie and just decided to ditch all the worthwhile bits.
Because the year 2020 wasn't awful enough, it had throw one last curveball at us... This movie.
this was a shocking zero budget film. what was this??????
2 minutes in on the first scene and you can tell its awful with the actors on their second lesson of acting class.
I very rarely leave a film unfinished but I couldn't take even 10 minutes of this. Ryan Phillippe must either had a gun held to his head or been in some serious debt and needed fast cash, though I can't image they had any money to pay him.
Shockingly bad, avoid like the COVID-19 pandemic.
