I thought this was an excellent movie. Haven't been this thrilled since Children of Men. It has very similar pacing to Children of Men - end of the world dystopia vibes, people traveling through the chaos, lots of quiet dialogue drama scenes, interspersed with intense violent action scenes, all with absolutely no musical score.
But the comments online range anywhere from "boring" to "garbage", and there seems to be 3 main reasons.
1 - The trailers focused on nothing but action scenes and made no mention of photojournalism, so people were disappointed this is a bit of a "high brow" movie that makes philosophical and moral points about press photographers, and wasn't 1.5 hours of non-stop action.
2 - The president in this movie is portrayed as a bad guy, for violating the US constitution, taking a 3rd term, and bombing American protesters. A lot of people felt this was an allusion to Trump and got offended.
3 - In some of the final battle scenes, the squad leader of one of the groups of soldiers is a black woman, and some viewers felt annoyed that this was an attempt at making some political statement. Because apparently that's where we're at, we can't cast a black woman without people getting knee-jerk reactions.
So I have to say I think this is one of the situations where you cannot trust online reviews and aggregate ratings, because of the political themes, and the way the movie was marketed as low-brow non-stop action.
But the comments online range anywhere from "boring" to "garbage", and there seems to be 3 main reasons.
1 - The trailers focused on nothing but action scenes and made no mention of photojournalism, so people were disappointed this is a bit of a "high brow" movie that makes philosophical and moral points about press photographers, and wasn't 1.5 hours of non-stop action.
2 - The president in this movie is portrayed as a bad guy, for violating the US constitution, taking a 3rd term, and bombing American protesters. A lot of people felt this was an allusion to Trump and got offended.
3 - In some of the final battle scenes, the squad leader of one of the groups of soldiers is a black woman, and some viewers felt annoyed that this was an attempt at making some political statement. Because apparently that's where we're at, we can't cast a black woman without people getting knee-jerk reactions.
So I have to say I think this is one of the situations where you cannot trust online reviews and aggregate ratings, because of the political themes, and the way the movie was marketed as low-brow non-stop action.
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