IWasKnownAsThe1SentenceReviewer
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"Set in - while disconnect from" the DC Universe, please welcome the latest bug in the genre:
An over-melodramatic over-complicated way-too-long but oh-so-classic origin story with lots of blue, lots of bugs, lots of tears, lots of screaming and very little surprises...
The only positive and interesting part in this here-we-go-again-with-a-new-cheap-superhero (who, just like so many others shares similitudes with - or heavily borrows from - MCU characters: Batman's utility belt, Hank Pym's technology, Spiderman's abilities) is the fact that the new host is a second generation American born in a Mexican family of migrants now living in an area threatened by the global sea level rise (more than Kord - almost Dork read backwards)
An over-melodramatic over-complicated way-too-long but oh-so-classic origin story with lots of blue, lots of bugs, lots of tears, lots of screaming and very little surprises...
The only positive and interesting part in this here-we-go-again-with-a-new-cheap-superhero (who, just like so many others shares similitudes with - or heavily borrows from - MCU characters: Batman's utility belt, Hank Pym's technology, Spiderman's abilities) is the fact that the new host is a second generation American born in a Mexican family of migrants now living in an area threatened by the global sea level rise (more than Kord - almost Dork read backwards)
This reviewer was expecting to see Jean Gabin again, after having starred as "Max le Menteur" in Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and The Counterfeiters of Paris - original title: Le cave se rebiffe (1961). Instead, Lino Ventura is now the antihero of the story.
Michel Audiart's dialogues are not as funny and sharp as in the previous films, the gun fight in the backyard is just ridiculous (the attempt at slapstick comedy with the hard-of-hearing old man fails miserably) and the famous kitchen scene only shows very bad "drunk acting".
Not to mention Ventura's obvious wrestling moves and the absence of a decent plot.
Michel Audiart's dialogues are not as funny and sharp as in the previous films, the gun fight in the backyard is just ridiculous (the attempt at slapstick comedy with the hard-of-hearing old man fails miserably) and the famous kitchen scene only shows very bad "drunk acting".
Not to mention Ventura's obvious wrestling moves and the absence of a decent plot.
Interesting piece of French cinema, with "monstre sacré" Jean Gabin and famously acid dialogues by Michel Audiart.
The story is actually quite interesting and the era so foreign so this reviewer was actually metaphorically glued to their seat.
The White male characters are unfortunately first class condescendant towards minorities and women but this only sadly reflects the time and history of Western privilege.
In a nutshell: excellent and enjoyable stand alone part II in a trilogy with Master Liar Max the Trickster (personal free translation of Max le Menteur).
A review in 600 characters.
The story is actually quite interesting and the era so foreign so this reviewer was actually metaphorically glued to their seat.
The White male characters are unfortunately first class condescendant towards minorities and women but this only sadly reflects the time and history of Western privilege.
In a nutshell: excellent and enjoyable stand alone part II in a trilogy with Master Liar Max the Trickster (personal free translation of Max le Menteur).
A review in 600 characters.