Rating of
1.5/4
Another casualty in the video game movie genre
Indyfreak - wrote on 12/21/24
This movie was not very good but I’ll admit it was not as horrible as I expected. It was just very poorly edited. You can tell they cut out the blood and gore from the action scenes to make it a PG-13. If it was kept rated R then it might have felt a bit more complete and less choppy.
Director Eli Roth notoriously abandoned the film post-production and Tim Miller (Deadpool) had to do reshoots. Boy can you tell this movie was deeply troubled in the editing process. It had unnecessary narration by Cate Blanchett who sounds very bored. Things just sort of happen and there is a twist which is not as surprising as the movie hopes it is.
Cate Blanchett is too old for her part. But she mostly comes out unscathed. Mainly because she looks so irritated about even being in the movie. I found it funny. It is kind of refreshing to see Kevin Hart play a straightforward action hero. But he is still pretty short. The only ones who kind of embodies their character were Jack Black and Ariana Greenblatt. But they both are still pretty annoying. Jamie Lee Curtis looks completely out of place as a scattershot scientist.
I went into this movie expecting to hate it. But I didn’t after all. It actually has one pretty solid chase scene in the first act. The whole look of the movie does resemble the games’ grimy dusty aesthetic. Someone who worked on this movie was a true fan of the video game series. It’s just a shame that it was all for nothing.
