CaptainHixx

How many times have we seen a Superman movie or a TV show where Superman is getting his ass kicked from the opening frame to the closing scene? There's a lot of things I liked about this film. I liked the fun colorful cinematography/art direction it felt like a comic book movie. James Gunn knows how to have fun but the problem with this film, It was at Superman's expense. I liked the casting of the leads no problems there at all. Nicholas Hoult is one of the best actors of his generation. The problem here was James Gunn allowed him to take Lex Luther on a lighter version Joaquin Phoenix Joker escapade. Lex Luther is not an unhinged madman. I really think they got that character wrong and that was a major problem.. also too many gimmicks, the robots in the fortress of solitude Krypto the dog, drunk Supergirl, the justice gang. Superman was a side piece in his own movie. The Marvelous, Mrs. Mabel was great as the Lois Lane. The ending seemed to have the stakes raised too high plus there were something wrong with the pacing where you would think that the whole city would've been destroyed by the time they resolved it. Gunn needed to dial it down a notch also, Mr. Terrific saves the day Again. This movie was really a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed it far more than man of steel. I hate the Snyder deconstructed Superman, but this is the polar opposite having a weak pathetic Superman, whose Foster-parents are clearly on the spectrum and his birth parents are psychopaths doesn't work either. Hopefully they can clean some of this up before the endless sequels....

The original was really fun innovative action comedy. It gave you this John Wick as a family man vibe. Bob Odenkirk is one of my favorite actors and great supporting cast in the original. Very difficult storyline to follow up on especially having a bad ass intelligence officer auditor continues a normal life as a nobody family man. Whoever was in the writing room that pitched hey let's take this whole show on the road on a vacation and just randomly have them get beefs with all the most important people in town immediately and turn it into a straw dogs throwback (must've been taking too many eligibles that day.) So many other directions this could've worked better. I think they were trying to lean more into the comedy and less into the plausibility of the story. I was wondering, how could this movie have such a catastrophic flop at the box office after how good the first one was and now I understand why. This was a colossal failure, probably almost impossible to not have it being the subject matter is very difficult to follow up with. I would've went with kids get kidnapped, Mom needs to get trained for the mission to save the kids with grandpa and his brother. There's about 16 ideas that would've been better than vacation gone wrong.... So long nobody, after this garbage nobody's gonna miss you.....

Pretty amazing that Netflix is dropping this level quality film onto their service now, who would've thought this 10 years ago. Chris Pratt and Millie are A list actors with the Russo Brothers and a high concept sci-fi film with a massive budget pretty impressive win for their studio. Loved the 80s town I loved the soundtrack, the cast, the score though at times a bit overdone. I thought the storytelling was solid. It could've used that edit. There was a couple scenes that were unnecessary and extended to a point where it was filler. Very enjoyable, family film high concept, kind of reminded me of ET meets minority report. Spielberg is all over this thing. It was basically an ode to Spielberg, a a bit lighter hearted version of AI. If I had the ability to give it a rating, it would be a 7.6 I rounded up because of the IMDb app. I think some of the reviewers are a little too harsh. This is good fun for the whole family. We haven't had something like that in a while that wasn't just completely crammed with agenda..