A celebration of bad acting by Hailee Steinfeld
Awesome story if you're 9 years old.
This show, unsurprisingly exudes that cheap and nasty vibe (like Agents of Shield) that you can get on a more modest budget... Although that is no longer the excuse it once was. The Mandalorian has raised the bar and shown that modest budget spinoffs can surpass expectations and rival the original material with the right creative team at the helm.
Instead, what we get with Hawkeye is very much Disney filler; piggybacking on the greatness of The Avengers and the absolute weak end of the creative quality spectrum.
Overall the flow of the show could have been vastly improved if the director had occasionally advised Hailee Steinfeld to stop overacting. The cringe of her performance demotes the show from a potentially classy offbeat MCU side story (e.g. Loki) to Bow and Arrow Nancy Drew in a ninja suit.
Only Jeremy Renner's credible performance and the simple appeal of any old action sequence for the younger fans elevate Hawkeye to one notch above terrible.
This show, unsurprisingly exudes that cheap and nasty vibe (like Agents of Shield) that you can get on a more modest budget... Although that is no longer the excuse it once was. The Mandalorian has raised the bar and shown that modest budget spinoffs can surpass expectations and rival the original material with the right creative team at the helm.
Instead, what we get with Hawkeye is very much Disney filler; piggybacking on the greatness of The Avengers and the absolute weak end of the creative quality spectrum.
Overall the flow of the show could have been vastly improved if the director had occasionally advised Hailee Steinfeld to stop overacting. The cringe of her performance demotes the show from a potentially classy offbeat MCU side story (e.g. Loki) to Bow and Arrow Nancy Drew in a ninja suit.
Only Jeremy Renner's credible performance and the simple appeal of any old action sequence for the younger fans elevate Hawkeye to one notch above terrible.
- scubax
- Dec 2, 2021