joshsbray

Ok, no spoiler review here, but I just wanted to point out my major conflict/gripe when watching it. A: before anything, I absolutely think this film is fun and worth a watch, even if you haven't watched the 6 original films.

Anyways, this movie is a mix of some absolute highs 9.5-10/10 and some absolute lows (sub5) ranging throughout the entire film. I was nearly about to straight up leave during the first 30 ish minutes due to just how janky it was in editing and writing. Luckily that was shortly followed by what may now be one of my favorite sequences in cinema ever! There is one absolutely amazing, probably 15-20 minute long sequence towards the middle of the film, that is absolute pure gold. The cinematography, stakes, and action were all perfect and divine.

But my issue is that it was able to achieve such a feat, whilst also having one of the worst intros I've ever seen in a modern high profile film.

I don't know, I'd personally watch it just for the middle of the movie again, but the movie was overall just really fun, but definitely not a story movie. Pure action and stakes, don't go in trying to love the story, else you'll likely be burnt.

Pantheon is in all honesty one of the best pieces of Sci-fi ever imagined, whether it be in it's attempt to approach the question of existence or to explain the human condition, it does strides in whatever it wants to tell.

The show, while not breaking grounds in animation like that of Arcane or Spiderverse, is able to achieve so much on account of it's fantastic art direction. The writing is nigh always perfect to create a "human" script as well.

It genuinely sucks that this story has not recieved the attention it absolutely deserves.

Genuinely don't have enough words for how good this is, just watch it in your free time. Outside of just being entertaining, it truly is wonderful in every regard.

I came into season 2 initially being worried, but last weekend, I had a surprise that Riot/Fortiche had captured lighting in a bottle for a second time. Thus my expectations moving into Act 2 where high to say the least, and yet somehow I'm still impressed.

S2 E5 is genuinely one of the best told narratives I've seen portrayed through the lens of a TV series. The visuals as usual were absolutely breathtaking with no room to argue. The music hit the emotion perfectly for every scene.

And wow, just wow, the way it took the story was. Absolute perfection. I genuinely haven't ever felt this way about a show in a long time.

Now, while it may seem a bit crazy to say 10/10 just on the merits of perfection being impossible. This is as close to 10/10 that you can get in my opinion, and it deservers every last point of that.