I have never understood the praise for the Wachowski brothers and their films. Speed Racer was diabolical and The Matrix one the biggest pieces of horse manure I have ever seen. Visually great but lacking enormously in every other way.
I did not know this was a Wachowski Brothers film until after I had watched the movie. It explains so much...
Even as I watched the film I kept on thinking WTF... the story line was barely there and what little there was was so utterly confusing. It was like the brothers had grabbed their favorite 10 seconds from 200 sci-fi/action films and edited it together in some random way expecting it to make some sense. It didn't.
Couple that with some fairly dire acting and this just descended into a turgid mess from which there was no hope of recovery.
Visually of course there is no problem but that simply highlights everything that is wrong with this film and indeed a vast chunk of the depressingly formulaic output from Hollywood nowadays. Impressive CGI does NOT a film make...
Honestly this was the worst two cinematic hours of my life for a long long time. It is easy to see why this tanked big time at the box office. Hopefully the Hollywood studios will start to realise sometime soon that to make a decent film you need to start with a good story. This didn't. There is nothing here that could induce me to recommend the film in anyway other than the impressive visuals.
I did not know this was a Wachowski Brothers film until after I had watched the movie. It explains so much...
Even as I watched the film I kept on thinking WTF... the story line was barely there and what little there was was so utterly confusing. It was like the brothers had grabbed their favorite 10 seconds from 200 sci-fi/action films and edited it together in some random way expecting it to make some sense. It didn't.
Couple that with some fairly dire acting and this just descended into a turgid mess from which there was no hope of recovery.
Visually of course there is no problem but that simply highlights everything that is wrong with this film and indeed a vast chunk of the depressingly formulaic output from Hollywood nowadays. Impressive CGI does NOT a film make...
Honestly this was the worst two cinematic hours of my life for a long long time. It is easy to see why this tanked big time at the box office. Hopefully the Hollywood studios will start to realise sometime soon that to make a decent film you need to start with a good story. This didn't. There is nothing here that could induce me to recommend the film in anyway other than the impressive visuals.