Reviews

I'm not sure if I'm educated enough to review this film. That's how historically accurate it was, that's how successful Nolan was in terms of helping the audience visualize a 3-hour long biopic about one of the most important figures in the history of mankind.

Murphy was fantastic. So was RDJ, Blunt and the rest of the cast. The script was well-written, and I felt Nolan intentionally made the audience jump back and forth between events occurring in different points of the timeline so that the audience have to connect the dots for themselves. This is, in my opinion, what made the biopic even more epic as you'd have to be attentive and figure out what's been happening by yourself. The thoughts it can provoke inside you - specially as part of the future generation - is remarkable. This is pure storytelling, in its most raw and accurate form.

However, if you're only expecting to see irrelevant nuclear detonations and blasts throughout the entire runtime, you probably should reconsider. What history says, Nolan shows. Nothing more, nothing less.

I personally expected the movie to be fun and adventurous. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what it is supposed to be? It's literally a movie about Barbie. Instead, it felt more like an agent of woke culture, and basically Mattel's (the company that produces Barbie dolls) way of capitalizing the emotional aspect of the cinephiles to make their business more popular and trendier. It continuously tried to portray the fact that Mattel is no more producing white barbie dolls, it is now producing dolls of all colors and races. Well, that is definitely a good thing, but making most of the movie focus on that aspect felt very boring and wrong. If they didn't quite make a movie that is fun and adventurous, why make the marketing events misleading? They could've just focused on the audience for whom it was made, rather than on the entire world through their absurdly irrelevant marketing events that made the world think that this movie is going to be all about fun and adventure. Sadly, it was not nearly as enjoyable as the misleading marketing made it seem.

I'm going to keep it short.

Why is it below average?

• Terrible CGI. And when I say terrible, I mean it. Specially the first half of the movie felt like total cartoon. Say, for example, the newborn-saving scene. What was that?! Come on WB super-fast heroes saving the world isn't new. We've seen quicksilver in X-Men Days of Future Past, even Flash himself in the series and JL movies before. Making an immensely potential DC character like Flash seem like a joke felt really sad.

• More grade 7 humor than a serious story.

Still why a 7?

• The flashpoint paradox. Finally. We've all been waiting for it. Gladly, that part's CGI was slightly better.

• Keaton's batman was fantastic. For me, he stole the show.

• Some parts felt nostalgic. And yeah, contains some good catchphrases, probably will make you laugh too.

This one's different. The entire POV of the film is from a camera - somebody is taping the entire situation throughout the runtime, so you get this kind of a real-feel. Unlike most, this one doesn't really focus on the ending though, like what exactly happened afterwards with the monstrous creature. Rather, it focuses more on the personal lives of the people that got affected. To be honest, plot wise this probably doesn't deserve a solid 7, but the reason I decided to do so is because this film was quite unique on its own.

Give it a try, you may like it! Happy watching! :)

Loved how they brought so many links throughout the entire series. From Laura's (potential) link to the Mockingbird (Agent 19 of S. H. I. E. L. D) to bringing in detailed-Yelena and her upcoming potential link to the future marvel films - I think this series did a pretty good job.

And of course, Kate Bishop (partner/best friend of our Hawk-eye), was amazing.

Apparently, like you all guessed by now, the title itself lied to us.

Bond, James Bond - is permanently offline.

The story explores the post-retirement era Bond, and how he eventually gets caught up to his past. I think the plot had some holes in it which an average spy film lover would be able to spot - so in my opinion there were scope for better plotting. On that note, to be honest, it doesn't deserve a rating over 7, at best.

Then why the 8?

Being a part of the gen Z, I grew up watching Daniel Crag as the Bond. Although the previous Bond endorsers were quite the perfection themselves, no doubt, but Craig will still be my most favourite. I guess this was just an emotional kid saying goodbye to his favourite Bond.

Thank you DC 007. It's been an honour. To saving the world!