Not gonna say this movie is a complete load of suck, but, yeah, it’s close to the bottom…You’ve been warned. The directors directed a few more between this and the Matrix trilogy, and it just kinda follows the diminishing returns of a lot of CGI to compensate for not much of a substantial story. Particularly here, there’s some CGI fights that are as empty as the 8 beer cans it took me to make it through watching this. The acting is about that stellar, too. I go into story so-called “plot” points some would consider spoilers that I usually avoid, here I would say this can be considered a time saver if it helps at least one person avoid this film.
There’s an illegal alien in Chicago. She says it, right off the bat. So that kinda sets a tone. There’s a plotpoint about harvesting the earth because we’ve about reached the oversaturation point. Evilness in bureaucracy that has a heavy Brazil influence (quite literally, noted below). Some 5th Element vibes and Game of Thrones family kinda stuff, but significantly lamer. Divine purposes driven by profit. Fkn hell, they even say it. I don’t think this movie had much of a purpose beyond selling some hackneyed social
Even back when this movie first came out, I shied away from it. Didn’t see anything good about it, had better things to do like cut my toenails an’ shit. But thematic DMR circumstances layed this turd in my lap, so I figured I’d take the bullet and deal with finding out if it’s just as suspect as I imagined. It is. And more so, in almost every scene that plays out. Not so much plays, as limps along. Lamely, as limp usually implies. And the runtime makes is it ...hard to get through. This movie, while lookin pretty with all the CGI, is just vacuous along with the horrendous writing. For such an advanced civilization portrayed here, their building skills is pretty shite. Kind of an extra spoiler alert here, they apparently hired the Death Star architect for their city planning. What dreck. The last word I wrote in my notes was Turd. After writing this and reviewing the written notes, I concur. Giant. Turd.