Big money doesn't make a great movie. Great script, character development and acting do. (This is true about many great Aussie movies.)
Unfortunately, this movie has neither a great script, nor acting or characters. And I doubt the budget would change much.
I did like the decorations - for their consistency. The ending twist wasn't much of a twist for me, because the movie was already trying hard to look smarter and more original than it was - so some sort of twist was a must. Fighting sequences are OK, but nothing you didn't see in 3,445,695 other action flicks you watched.
The rest is, simply put, pure crap made of overused clichés. A good angel descends to the purgatory in an attempt to bring back the light. Then all the predictable stuff: good angels vs fallen, all armed with guns, knives, powers to heal (think The Crow). Character development is nil. Briefly: the fallen angels are cartoonishly bad; the good are good but morally weak. This sentence covers what 1 hour of the movie is trying to tell us.
They're supposed to struggle with emotions, but you don't really see it - neither the struggle, nor the emotions. And again, these oh-so-predictable comments about how humans are much wiser than the angels.
Can anything be done with this idea? Not sure, but probably it could be better.
Unfortunately, this movie has neither a great script, nor acting or characters. And I doubt the budget would change much.
I did like the decorations - for their consistency. The ending twist wasn't much of a twist for me, because the movie was already trying hard to look smarter and more original than it was - so some sort of twist was a must. Fighting sequences are OK, but nothing you didn't see in 3,445,695 other action flicks you watched.
The rest is, simply put, pure crap made of overused clichés. A good angel descends to the purgatory in an attempt to bring back the light. Then all the predictable stuff: good angels vs fallen, all armed with guns, knives, powers to heal (think The Crow). Character development is nil. Briefly: the fallen angels are cartoonishly bad; the good are good but morally weak. This sentence covers what 1 hour of the movie is trying to tell us.
They're supposed to struggle with emotions, but you don't really see it - neither the struggle, nor the emotions. And again, these oh-so-predictable comments about how humans are much wiser than the angels.
Can anything be done with this idea? Not sure, but probably it could be better.