What happens when you want to adapt an Ayn Rand novel, but you also realize all of them are insanely poorly written, dry, repetitive, loudspoken about it's politics while being fundamentally unable to stand any sort of actual examination and overly long? Well you lube it the fuck up but mostly keep the other stuff.
It's rare that I like a film as much I like this when it's politics are so contrary to my own, and poorly formed. A…
Animation much more comprehensible than the mess that was Broly. It's still Super and all of my usual issues with Super still apply, and I'm pretty sure I could've muted the movie and lost nothing.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
There's not much to write about this movie, other than to say I was highly disappointed. Del Toro has a knack for visuals, but unfortunately that's about it. To his credit, this movie does have some impressive visuals, for about 10% of the movie, when it's actually dealing with it's fantasy elements. Instead, about 90% of the movie is devoted to an extremely shallow war plot about a Spanish Captain who's an asshole, and does asshole-y things, and a young…
My GF at one point while watching this film: "This is like 9/11 footage".
