A smart, exciting sci-fi thriller with some good performances from the main cast and an intriguing premise. It brings a lot of originality and wit that are hard to come by in Hollywood these days, and features some great twists. It gets a little lost in its own premise by the end, but the effect is nonetheless deep and lasting.
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Surprisingly fun and well-handled. Captain America was always going to be a difficult character to treat without coming off as incredibly cheesy, so setting this movie in WWII was a stroke of genius, as was the whole way he evolved into having such a cheesy costume and name. The second half of the movie degrades into pretty standard B-Movie summer blockbuster action, but the ending is excellent and leads excellently into The Avengers.
Well that was anticlimactic. Here for once you have this massive large-scale epic, full of revelations and twists and action, and the movie cut most of it out? How incredibly dumb. Moments that everyone loved in the book are here lazily thrown in, almost as if you hear Yates complaining, "Do I have to?". Others are cut completely for no worthwhile reason, and entire plot revelations that cast much of the series in a new light in the books are here cut out. What you're left with is a short and mostly unseen battle scene, a final fight that no longer makes any real sense or impact, and a hilarious makeup-job ending.
Still, it's not all bad, as the first half of the movie is actually pretty good at depicting hollowed-out version of events from the book. Despite this, this toned down film making has convinced me that years from now, nobody will really remember the Harry Potter films particularly fondly. They will never be the classics they could've been.
Not bad. Considering how little action this part of the book had, it was definitely handled in a satisfactory way and with decent character development. Unlike every previous entry in the series, it doesn't feel like faint whisper of the book's greatness - it's still nowhere near as good, but it definitely held its own. Some surprising performances from the cast round off the whole thing as being "satisfactory".
"So, a Back to the Future adventure game, huh? Doesn't sound all that great. I mean, the movies had a very unique feel to them, and it's not like these guys would be able to recapture th-" Yeah, I'm just gonna cut you off now, because this is very much the Back to the Future you (most likely) cherish, and very much as enjoyable as the movies. It's the perfect sequel, made better by the fact that it's longer (5 episodes clocking it at 2-3 hours each) and in video game form. Indeed, only through a video game could the feel of the movies have been pulled off so well; fresh and different, but familiar and fitting. It's not one of those super-hard, inaccessible old school adventure games, either: pretty much anyone can play through this no problem, and puzzles are in almost all cases very logical and require thinking as opposed to random luck.
If you like Back to the Future, you should play this whether you like adventure games or not.
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