When I first saw the trailer to this film I was admittedly looking forward to seeing it. After watching through it however, I noticed the abundance of plot holes, underdeveloped characters, and lazy script writing. The film overall felt like it may have been rushed towards completion due to the pacing issues present throughout, and how some of the CGI and digital compositing seemed to suffer more through the end of the film.
The characters themselves do not show much progression, and basically stay the same the entire way through, making them seem very two dimensional. And in the end, they were trying to use the tired cinematic formula of how "friendship saves the day" but the characters barely spent much time together. And the times they did show them in the same room it was just a messy exchange of one-liners and odd exchanges. Not to mention I could not have cared less about their back stories (Temirkhan loosing his brother was directly his own fault and should not have been angry at August for his own stupidity, and Arsus feeling like he was loosing his humanity every time he turned into his bear form yet he continued to do so, without showing him ever loosing his so called consciousness).
Overall, I did not hate the movie. I felt there was a lot of unexplained situations that could have easily been explained (how Kseniya lost her memory, or why the general betrayed his country). The action in the film was pretty entertaining and the way their powers worked seemed pretty interesting and mostly original. The film had a lot of potential but it was sad to see it presented how it was.
Review of The Guardians
