Jonas1969

This episode should have been the last 10-15 minutes of the finale.. the one they had in episode 7. It felt like there were more musical interludes than actual content.

I'll bet the ending hook to get you wanting more is solved in the first episode of season 3 and has nothing to do with the next seasons plot.

The only good thing about the finale was that I got to remember a few good tunes I hadn't heard in a long time.. tragic end to a decent season.

We gather a team where most members are mercenaries that do anything for money. Their mission is a really stupid McGuffin. We add a scientist, a corporate tool and a random dad with kids. There is a lot of exposition and most is spent trying to make the mercs seem more human but it comes off as fake and we don't really care. All in all we spend 40 minutes before anything really happens.

After that it is packed with action until the end. All the characters follow the clichéd forms we expect. All the action is over the top and mostly mindless but still entertaining.

In the end this is better than the last two movies but not a rebirth. Not really a story that needed to be told but two hours of decent entertainment that leaves no marks. I didn't care about any character and won't remember any of the plot, but I wasn't bored for the last 2/3 of the film.. apparently that is as good as it gets with action movies right now.

Back to the 60s on Earth in a multiverse variant where science has come a bit further and the Fantastic 4 already exist.

The alternate Earth lowers the stakes for us and though we are given a somewhat contrived origin story we don't really get invested in the characters before the main story kicks off.

I'm guessing the plot uses lots of references from the comic books but if you aren't familiar with those it all feels both childish and contrived but the action and visuals kept me interested. As the movie wrapped up I had spent 2 hours without being bored so as a popcorn movie this scores well, but it has none of the qualities that are needed to make a classic.

If comic book movies want to retain a wide audience they need to invent more and take less from the comics because the comics are way too infantile and don't get me started on the names.