spocktom

This is a film minus a story. It's a violent road movie wherein the journalists covering the civil war lurch from one battle to another with gratuitous violence thrown in for visual impact. Some of the violent scenes are not very plausible as I sincerely doubt Americans would instantly execute other fellow Americans.

Apart from a "mini documentary" opening which doesn't tell the viewer much about the reasons for the civil war we are left wondering why the war is happening, what led to the coalition forming in response to the federal government and how America's allies and enemies are reacting to the situation from outside the US.

Sorry, this is a movie with loads of well performed stunts and action set pieces (the scenes in Washington are truly chilling) in want of a story.

This film had me yawning about twenty minutes. I laughed at the many cliches, the ridiculous technology on display ( a gun that needs a hammer action, really?) the use of many South African extras with that awful nasal twang of an accent and a soundtrack lifted straight from some game with no leitmotif...nothing resembling the great Williams soundtracks. Boring, pretentious nonsense.

The CGI was acceptable but not great. The acting was wooden. The script is just laughable. I felt no connection with this film...none. It did not blow me away the way Star Wars did back at the beginning of 1978. Even Star Wars and its light script is light years better than this stuff. You want to watch this...fine. If you are a young person grown up in the digital gaming age I suppose you will like it. People looking for more substantial science fiction might need to look elsewhere. Sorry.