This could easily have been an absolutely awesome 9 or 10.
Beautifully shot, great acting, the leads playing off of each other in a spectacular manner, interesting, engaging, believable characters, on point humour, easy to grasp yet not too trivial, amazing cinematography, drama that had me grip my seat, beautiful score, stellar pacing, not feeling hollywood overpolished, great atmosphere and universe creation, almost perfect CGI, and most importantly a good and deep message that was masterfully woven into an extremely enjoyable movie.
It wouldn't have been perfect, because of some visual gripes, and that it was ultimately still just a movie about supers, but it would have been a contender for a 10, definitely a 9.
What ultimately messed all of this up is easy to pinpoint. Bluntly: the major poster/trailer fight scene, and the fight scene after that. Ridiculous and overblown and the principles of the character echoed a mere MINUTE before went flying out the window for some spectacle. Especially since she was not fighting nazis in WW1... Absolutely disgusting, somewhat lackluster for a hollywood production, pointless, and if cut from the movie and reshot with less overblown action and more spy-drama, it would have immediately improved the movie a lot.
It wouldn't have been perfect, because of some visual gripes, and that it was ultimately still just a movie about supers, but it would have been a contender for a 10, definitely a 9.
What ultimately messed all of this up is easy to pinpoint. Bluntly: the major poster/trailer fight scene, and the fight scene after that. Ridiculous and overblown and the principles of the character echoed a mere MINUTE before went flying out the window for some spectacle. Especially since she was not fighting nazis in WW1... Absolutely disgusting, somewhat lackluster for a hollywood production, pointless, and if cut from the movie and reshot with less overblown action and more spy-drama, it would have immediately improved the movie a lot.