Over the past few days I’ve been to see three films. And they were all crap.
First off I went to see Poseidon, which I expected to be crap, and so actually enjoyed it. A good mindless piece of entertainment.
But then I went to see X-Men: The Last Stand. Now after Singer left I thought it would be as good, so lowered my expectations. But obviously not enough. It was a mess. Too many storylines and not enough time to develop them. Good special effects and stunt work, but rubbish dialogue.
And finally The Da Vinci Code. Sigh. It actually lowered my opinion of humanity. To think that there are people out there who believe that this is true! I haven’t been able to review it yet, because of its dullness, I may try later. But in to boil it down, boredom, followed by a patch of dullness, culminating in an ending that isn’t actually and ending but instead you have to sit through another 30 minutes of pointless exposition that makes little if any sense.
So, not a good movie going week. Although in the latest Wind That Shakes The Barley trailer I saw, Cillian didn’t sound quite so Gift Grub Roy. Which is a relief.
And also, to any New Zealanders out there, can I just say “You Bastards!”
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Dir: Brett Ratner
Writ: Simon Kinberg & Zak Penn
- Hugh Jackman - Logan/Wolverine
- Halle Berry - Ororo Munroe/Storm
- Ian McKellen - Eric Lensherr/Magneto
- Famke Janssen - Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix
- Anna Paquin - Marie/Rogue
In this, the third X-Men film, there are two main plotlines. One concerns Jean Grey and her return from death in the form of the ultra powerful Dark Phoenix. The other revolves around a cure for the mutant gene, and what this will mean for the X-Men, and for mutants everywhere.
Only trouble is, this film is such a mess that neither story gets the treatment it deserves. We get a cursory look at what such a cure might mean to the likes of Rogue, after all her gift is much more of a burden than many. And then it is straight back into the fight. In the other story line we get exposition dumps and sudden information that makes no real sense in connection with earlier films.
Add to that the desire to stick in as many other mutants from the comics as can be seen on the big screen and you end up with a rubbish film. And such a disapointment after the previous two films which I really enjoyed.
Of course, it isn’t all bad. There are some elements that work; that quick glance at Rogue’s problem being one. And it all looks great, costumes, explosions, stunts. All great. But this merely serves to highlight how lacking in any sort of depth this film really is, and so makes it even worse. And then there is all that clunky dialogue, which not even Ian McKellan can make believable. Plus, plotholes.
All in all this seems more like the writers wanted to stick everything up on the big screen, to show how great the X-Men universe is, but instead managed to throw a lot of elements together and create a disapointment
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