This is a movie of good moments that never coalesce into anything.
What little plot the film has moves at a crawl, and while you would normally applaud the film for focusing on character motivations and relationships, they're shallow at best and incomplete at worst. A major deal is made all film of how Jack supposedly doesn't know what he wants, but that goes pretty much nowhere; and the love triangle that this movie sets a large chunk of time…
Huh... is this the problem people had with Resident Evil 6?
After the first entire half of the movie is plot setup and introduction, the second half is a pretty energetic, varied, and entertaining anime action flick. The cg animation looks great (aside from the blood splatters, funnily enough) and they get a solid variety to the action setpieces. I think I prefer Degeneration's more horror-based approach than the... Michael Bay-ness, but it's still a lot of fun.
The problem…
I saw this movie as a mystery screening at my local theater. I was hoping for Transformers One, Wicked, maybe even Moana 2... instead I got insomnia medication.
Famous French actor Jean Reno plays a Brazillian fisherman who stupidly got his annoying-ass kid killed by taking him out on a rinkydink boat in a huge thunderstorm without a life jacket, and then spent the next twenty-some-odd years just sitting at home being sad about it! I know this is based…
I've never seen the show, but that's alright; I watched this with three major fans who spent the entire movie ranting about every single thing they cut and changed. It's a very long list.
This movie has absolutely nothing going for it. You can tell this movie is adapted from source material that's had vast swaths cut from it as characters just warp between areas instantaneously and even a single fight scene will have characters teleport to new sequences like…
