- Sensibility: Some extreme plot armor, particularly for the characters that are supposed to be human, combined with a series of very strange choices by characters to drive the plot
make it hard to suspend disbelief. In particular, grabbing random loose papers from a vault of information, a dad driving into the desert, a surpisingly bullet proof van door, a winch flipping a car, and
rebar restraining a super-human are notably insensible.
- Cinematography: One of the first Marvel films I've seen in a while with an interesting visual direction. The void concept and execution is quite good and the shame rooms is surprisingly
thought-provoking. However, there are some minor CGI issues, particularly in transitions from CGI to main characters during action sequences and some serious issues with accent execution from the 'Russian' characters.
- Energy: The film takes a long time to get to somewhere interesting, spending far too much time bickering over political details that all turn out to be moot in the end.
- Narrative: The film has something meaningful to say about trauma, even if it is over-simplified and reductive. However, the film's all-powerful hero concept is
a hack-writing tool to bring this cast together, there are huge portions of the story that feel like they are forcing comedy or action sequences when they don't belong,
and the story is a bit too predictable and cliche.
- T-Points: The film received one bonus point for the first sequence in the shame rooms.
Honestly, decent Marvel film after a string of rather poor ones. First one in a while that I walked out feeling like the story wasn't completely pointless action-movie slop.
Number of Watches: 1
