Rating of
2/4
What do you expect?
poonhokong - wrote on 04/05/11
Before I went in the theatre my friend warned me that this movie is not gonna be one of the best movie, but only something visually stylish. I was fully aware of that but I have too heightened expectation from Zack Snyder, since he has yet to make a bad film. Although this is not really bad, but it easily be his worst.
The film is filled with different incoherent action sequences, from fighting in a Japanese Temple, the castle in "The Two Towers", the train in "John Carpenter's Ghost on Mars", to some futuristic war zone. Each fight represents a dance that the girl has to perform to get other's attendion while other girls steals some tools for their escape.
While these action scenes are nicely shot, and stylish, they are boring since we are not emotional invested. As long as we can tell they just fight and fight for some goals we fed right before, and though the computer graphics does look beautiful, it felt flat and meaningless. At the end when the narrator spills some words of wisdom we feel nothing cause what we have witnessed is some beautiful girls in pointless action.
What the movie should have done is the action should be symbolize something of her mental problem, some obstacles that are tormenting her. And through the action she gained revelation and redemption. But if you look for only pretty girls in action, you got it.
