A time before the age of information.
That’s far from the emphasis or even the message of the film, but the thought plagued me worse than the locusts nearly the entirety of the runtime. The freedom and beauty in not knowing something and to be okay with that. The simplicity of the film is its strength. Although the filming was anything but simple, the shot compositions were often very open, making you feel more the space surrounding the characters. Every…
me when lin does the score for a disney movie: 😡
me when he does literally anything else: 😁
An overly expository waste of two-and-a-half hours. Feels like the complete antithesis to what Fury Road was.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Entertaining? Absolutely. Faithful? Ehhhh…
The practical effects, fights scenes, and performances, especially Denzel? Stunning. But man, the CGI and plot needed some work. Every animal (except you, Dundus) just forcibly yanked me out of the movie. Thankfully, most of the egregious CGI was gotten out of the way before the halfway mark.
As for the plot, making Maximus Lucius’ father was the worst route they could’ve possibly taken. Maximus’ implied cheating makes the sequel’s retconning cheap by comparison to its…
