As has been noted. The sound is bad. Hard to understand what half the characters are saying. And what they are saying is further impeded by not making that much sense. The music for the action scenes is also bad. Mostly bad techno beat music, but just found it overdone and annoying.
The story is bad. A Secret Agent from the CIA is pulled into a giant conspiracy that requires a James Bondian world-traveling super spy to act based upon a mostly unknown set of facts with the feeling he is being manipulated. There is a woman for whom he develops feelings towards. And she is married to the bad guy. And the Bad guy controls her as ruthlessly as he does everything else. Ya..nothing new here.
So, he / now they travel from action scene to action scene. This means some car chases, big explosions, etc. One super contrived scene has to do with a bunch of vehicles surrounding another vehicle to trap it so they can do break into it. Just have seen it before and it was so obvious it is remarkable the bad guys didn't see it coming.
Kenneth Branaugh overacts as the bad russian guy. The hero, JD Washington, is badly miscast. He lacks any physical presence. He can't act. (Check out the lame climax scene where he tries to talk the bad guy into not ending the world....really truly bad). He has no chemistry with the heroine (Elizabeth Debicki), who towers over him. Robert Pattinson is another really over-rated actor, here he babbles about time travel and its implications. He seems bored mostly. Michael Caine in three minutes of screen time acted rings around everyone else in this cast.
In the final third of the movie, it turns out the bad guy is dying from cancer, suddenly. So that somehow explains his behavior. I mean, WTF?
I don't want to tell you the plot, which is convoluted by itself, but I will tell you that every convenient thing that needs to happen at the time it needs to happen, happens.
Very rarely does a movie with this many big action scenes seem boring, but this one manages it.
I truly thought 'Monster Hunters' was better than this.
The story is bad. A Secret Agent from the CIA is pulled into a giant conspiracy that requires a James Bondian world-traveling super spy to act based upon a mostly unknown set of facts with the feeling he is being manipulated. There is a woman for whom he develops feelings towards. And she is married to the bad guy. And the Bad guy controls her as ruthlessly as he does everything else. Ya..nothing new here.
So, he / now they travel from action scene to action scene. This means some car chases, big explosions, etc. One super contrived scene has to do with a bunch of vehicles surrounding another vehicle to trap it so they can do break into it. Just have seen it before and it was so obvious it is remarkable the bad guys didn't see it coming.
Kenneth Branaugh overacts as the bad russian guy. The hero, JD Washington, is badly miscast. He lacks any physical presence. He can't act. (Check out the lame climax scene where he tries to talk the bad guy into not ending the world....really truly bad). He has no chemistry with the heroine (Elizabeth Debicki), who towers over him. Robert Pattinson is another really over-rated actor, here he babbles about time travel and its implications. He seems bored mostly. Michael Caine in three minutes of screen time acted rings around everyone else in this cast.
In the final third of the movie, it turns out the bad guy is dying from cancer, suddenly. So that somehow explains his behavior. I mean, WTF?
I don't want to tell you the plot, which is convoluted by itself, but I will tell you that every convenient thing that needs to happen at the time it needs to happen, happens.
Very rarely does a movie with this many big action scenes seem boring, but this one manages it.
I truly thought 'Monster Hunters' was better than this.