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A nice movie that merges a very credible dystopic background (fascist authoritarian governenment, civil war in a scattered federation...) and a harsh view on war journalism. Kirsten Dunst has a very consistent performance as the already hardened experient photojournalist. Cailee Spaeny also shines portraying the arc from innocence and idealism to the coldness and adaptation. Wagner Moura goes well, as always, but not as brilliant as in several brazilian productions. Ending is a striking portrait of the dark side of journalism and of the Armed Forces. As a matter of fact, it is interesting that we see US Armed Forces behaving precisely as US Armed Forces do, but here not against foreigners as usual. The director's choice was more action-oriented, and it is very well done indeed. The drawback is that I felt that many interesting elements could have been more developped in this so interesting story. Outcome is nice, anyway.

This movie in the Marvel Cinematic auniverse is sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, superhero action, almost a story in space, expect for not being held in the space! The film has amusing moments, with a strong flavour of Star Wars (and perhaps a little bit of Star Trek). Action, however, is somewhat confusing sometimes, and some events happen without a proper explanation. There are soft political messages for housing rights, against police abuse and in favour of revolutions against oppressive imperialism/colonialism, which could have been strong if developped with that very intention. The humor works most of the time.

The movie is bad (despite being a delight to see Gemma Chan and Salma Hayek), and perhaps worsens after the first hour (and there os a length of almost two hours and a half!). Some things did bother me here: 1) the film is the most generic superhero flick possible except for the different historic times that are depicted, and it is also too confusing sometimes; 2) the characters deffinitely do not behave convincingly as if they had been living for thousands of years; 3) with their multi-racial appearance and their not hidden superpowers, there was no chance not to impact fragrantly in all those civilizations and not to be mentioned in their written or pictorial history; 4) dialogues are terrible, varying from dull to silly. When it comes to present day, I could not help but feel that I was seeing a Justice League of the United Nations fighting Space Jam Monstars (and eventually Bizarro). Perhaps it would have worked better if it were actually that...