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It's not a bad movie, it's, as has been suggested here quite cleverly written. But I recently developed a resentment to the Hollywood axiom - "all problems must be solved within the duration of the movie". I feel like this idea is leaking from Hollywood into our way of thinking. We simply got used to problems being solved by the end of the script. As is I don't have an issue with scripts not leaving any loose ends but when the script is dealing with deep problems and tries to show us all it's dealing with real people - this "all will be solved" attitude becomes annoying for me.

So, that's why I think the whole thing is simplistic. But I did say there is depth here too. These are stemming mostly from the superb characters created here, that is the two leads Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell who both excel here creating real flesh and blood characters with flaws and charm coexisting inside them. I couldn't help but care for both of them, and that's the base for a movie that keeps you on your seat.

I must also note the fact that the movie is in itself slightly reserved regarding the totality of the solution offered at the end. Obviously, it's a fantasy, suspension of disbelief is a must. But the cinematography and the acting do take care of that problem, like they should.

It's the second of his movies I'm watching, and they were both so very dark, this one is labeled as a dark comedy, and in a way it is. But it's so dark it stops being funny after a while. The mood becomes so somber that even straight forward jokes pass you by with no more than a shadow of a smile.

His protagonist, (it's very hard calling him a hero - he's so much of an anti-hero that the H word feels weird) is once again looking for salvation, and a short while into the movie he's even given instructions of how he should get it. Of course, it won't be easy for him to follow these instructions but his road to salvation will require that he does follow them.

Acting is first class, even if some of his characters are mere cartoons. So much so we hardly care what happens to them, but those that are flesh and blood are real complex human beings, the way real human beings are.

Bottom line - it's dark, gritty and the salvation it offers is not fully rewarding, intentionally so, but I loved it.

It really is simplistic, even cartoonish in the world it builds, and it's all too often going preachy regarding the modern issue of taking care of the world we live in. A question that wasn't part of the discussion in the ancient world we're supposedly seeing in this movie. At least not in the sense we find it here. But on the other hand, I was surprised by the decent characters created in the movie. It's especially true of the two leading villains that is, Wallis Day as the tormented psychotic Annisia and Robert Sheehan who's very good as infantile genius tyrant Draygan. Matilda Lutz is not showing amazing talent as the title character but she's way better than her predecessor in that role, and I'm old enough to remember Brigitte Nielsen. The end result is surprisingly better than I expected, though might suit better a different target audience.