I had looked forward to this as I generally like Matthew Vaughn movies and the cast was exemplary; anything Samuel L. Jackson works on is worth my time, but oh god this was too much. WAY too much.
It started well and I appreciated the dad jokes (the whirly bird didn't get the worm). I HATED Henry Cavill's hair, but he played his part well. Sam Rockwell is generally reliable and I was happy to see Catherine O'Hara, despite hearing feint twangs of Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek).
I enjoyed the early Bond spoof car chases, and John Cena was a delight, so what's not to love, right? But 90 minutes in I was literally falling into a disengaged sugar coma. By 90 minutes in it had gotten farcically over-written and contrived to the point where I no longer cared - and I still had 44 minutes to endure, but I just couldn't subject myself any longer and so I went to bed. Whether I resume watching remains to be seen but I doubt it. It's too much of a hot mess to care about the ending, and god forbid they make a franchise out of it... *shudder*
This is fine for 15 year-old boys but thinking adults will probably get bored because it's not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, wants to be, or promised to be in the opening scenes. Quite how it scored the epic cast just boggles my mind, but if you have 2.5 hours of your life to waste, you can't say you haven't been warned. Drink a lot of coffee to either keep you awake or going to the loo so you don't have to watch it all.
Good luck!
It started well and I appreciated the dad jokes (the whirly bird didn't get the worm). I HATED Henry Cavill's hair, but he played his part well. Sam Rockwell is generally reliable and I was happy to see Catherine O'Hara, despite hearing feint twangs of Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek).
I enjoyed the early Bond spoof car chases, and John Cena was a delight, so what's not to love, right? But 90 minutes in I was literally falling into a disengaged sugar coma. By 90 minutes in it had gotten farcically over-written and contrived to the point where I no longer cared - and I still had 44 minutes to endure, but I just couldn't subject myself any longer and so I went to bed. Whether I resume watching remains to be seen but I doubt it. It's too much of a hot mess to care about the ending, and god forbid they make a franchise out of it... *shudder*
This is fine for 15 year-old boys but thinking adults will probably get bored because it's not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, wants to be, or promised to be in the opening scenes. Quite how it scored the epic cast just boggles my mind, but if you have 2.5 hours of your life to waste, you can't say you haven't been warned. Drink a lot of coffee to either keep you awake or going to the loo so you don't have to watch it all.
Good luck!