Vr_Lux

Forced, pretentious, fake, sloppy deliveries, weak script, confusing characters.....unfunny and cringy.

Okay...My opinion is that M Night S. is not the right guy for this kinda movie,regardless of whether or not this project came from his heart. Actually this movie could have been epic,if been handled by the right hands. Don't get me wrong, i have no hate for this movie, neither for the director...I'm even a fan of him, truly, and i was always waiting for each of his last movies with high expectations, but this film was like spikes on the road! The story is tremendous, so are the characters, but on the screen there was unfortunately no spirit, no soul..! The acting is bad, so is the casting for some characters, like Dev Patel (Prince Zuko), who is clearly not THE guy for this role. the CGIs are average (not to say cheap), despite such a budget. The screenplay is lacking sometimes, and the intensity that some moments should acquire never comes as it should, letting the involved viewer frustrated and disappointed...the fighting scenes are poorly choreographed, there is nothing impressive, nothing new...the score is okay, the volume levels well mastered thru the whole movie. If all these details would have been better handled by another director, this movie would certainly not have received that much bad ratings and critics, i'll bet on that! Anyway, being a pretty creative person, i don't have that much hate for this movie, but compassion, and every time when the director missed the point i just created it myself in my mind, i tried to remain open mind, to involve myself in the action, to put some dimension into the story, so that at the end this looked okay to me...but its not normal to have to do this, if the movie was good enough this would not have been necessary.