This movie had so much going for it, and just isn't the sum of its parts. You have Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany on the actors side, decent special effects and a pretty cool premise going for it, so why is this movie bad?
Here might follow some spoilers, but I will never go into detail. First of all, all the dialogs in this movie are awful. They seem to be trimmed to be cool one liners with a punchline, that might seem cool in a movie quotes section but suck if the whole movie plays out like this. Specially if the whole movie is crowded with those cardboard thin characters.
The story puts all the emphasis on its own weaknesses. This movie basically plays like a survival horror movie, a bunch of people is stuck in a diner and fights of an army of zombies, err angels. So everyone knows what's gonna happen. The "actors" are basically there to be cannon fodder. In this movie, you got a real interesting spin on the whole Christian mythology. Heaven, angels, archangels, all that stuff. Instead of putting the emphasis on this mythology, like why did god lose faith in humanity, what's going on in heaven and all that potentially interesting stuff is put aside, to tell the background stories of the cannon fodder. Those stories are so stereotype and cliché-driven, it's just painful to watch and completely takes out the pace of the movie. No one cares about these people, they're just boring. In the end I wished god's army would have been a little faster.
Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany probably needed the money, there is no other explanation for their involvement in this movie. The other actors seemed appropriate B-list actors.
To make things worse, during the action scenes the editing really sucks. There are only few action scenes, but those completely lack any choreography. So instead of choreographing the fights, they resolved to jumpy editing. Flashing one shot after the other, which usually ends in a confusing mess. Even worse, there are real holes in the fighting sequences, at some point I thought they might have pulled a shot or two, to get a PG-13 rating, but hey this movie is rated R. I'm not sure if the editing really sucked, or if they were just holding back a "Director's Cut" for the DVD release.
This movie might be worth a rental, if you watch it with a bunch of friends and beer in steady supply, but definitely not for cinemas.
Here might follow some spoilers, but I will never go into detail. First of all, all the dialogs in this movie are awful. They seem to be trimmed to be cool one liners with a punchline, that might seem cool in a movie quotes section but suck if the whole movie plays out like this. Specially if the whole movie is crowded with those cardboard thin characters.
The story puts all the emphasis on its own weaknesses. This movie basically plays like a survival horror movie, a bunch of people is stuck in a diner and fights of an army of zombies, err angels. So everyone knows what's gonna happen. The "actors" are basically there to be cannon fodder. In this movie, you got a real interesting spin on the whole Christian mythology. Heaven, angels, archangels, all that stuff. Instead of putting the emphasis on this mythology, like why did god lose faith in humanity, what's going on in heaven and all that potentially interesting stuff is put aside, to tell the background stories of the cannon fodder. Those stories are so stereotype and cliché-driven, it's just painful to watch and completely takes out the pace of the movie. No one cares about these people, they're just boring. In the end I wished god's army would have been a little faster.
Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany probably needed the money, there is no other explanation for their involvement in this movie. The other actors seemed appropriate B-list actors.
To make things worse, during the action scenes the editing really sucks. There are only few action scenes, but those completely lack any choreography. So instead of choreographing the fights, they resolved to jumpy editing. Flashing one shot after the other, which usually ends in a confusing mess. Even worse, there are real holes in the fighting sequences, at some point I thought they might have pulled a shot or two, to get a PG-13 rating, but hey this movie is rated R. I'm not sure if the editing really sucked, or if they were just holding back a "Director's Cut" for the DVD release.
This movie might be worth a rental, if you watch it with a bunch of friends and beer in steady supply, but definitely not for cinemas.
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