Some people will roll their eyes when people comment about the budget but its so big it cant be ignored. The question is WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?. I always think back to Gareth Edwards’ The Creator which cost $80 million and looks like it cost double that. It’s not how much money you have but where you spend it that shows how good a filmmaker you are.I will give the film credit that the special effects look quite good but thats it as far as positive things for the film.
Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt have no chemistry and its shocking how poorly they are together on screen. They might be contenders for worst double act at the Razzie’s next year. Brown is also not a convincing lead and is quite forgettable. Pratt also looks like he is phoning it in by playing the Chris Pratt that he always plays but without any of the charm that he usually plays. Where did that go? This is the second film within two weeks that I have seen that has wasted Giancarlo Esposito (Captain America being the other one). It also wastes Ke Huy Quan & Stanley Tucci which should automatically get this film a negative score.
So the idea of whether the robots are real people is a tired cliche and one that the film runs into the ground and the rest of the screenplay is dull and feels like it was written by AI. The directing is lifeless and shows that the Russo’s best work was in the MCU which is where they should go although they will have to work with a much smaller budget then. This has to go down as one of the worst films of the year and someone needs to have a word with Netflix because you could have used this $320 million and made 32 $10 million films and they would have potentially been some gems that came out of it.
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