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If you wanted pure, unadulterated violence, this was not the movie for you. While I agree the movie was underwhelming, I don't agree with all your reasonings. I just wish we could get movies like this but good.Įdit: There's also an American character and you can see how much the director wanted Aaron Taylor Johnson in this. I really like where he's going for and love that his superhero franchise is consisted of weird, edgy, and dark entries. It still feels too restrained because there are moments where decapitation and head popping are obscured probably to avoid 'adults only' rating.

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I think the movie could have been better if there were more violence simply because I like the idea of a superhero movie full of sadistic violence. The other is the scene where the protagonist keeps breaking a feet of a supervillain so that regeneration ability gets triggered until the side effect reaches the brain of him, which pops his brain and kills him painfully. I kind of wish she stabbed her until it worked though.

The protagonist stabs the enemy with telekinesis multiple times to test out which part to stab to subdue her and breaks her spine and toss her when stabbing doesn't work.

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One is the protagonist testing out how to subdue an enemy with superpower. The best part is when it becomes a mean spirited slasher movie with superpower with sadistic violence. I love how it rejects power fantasy through pretty nauseous depiction of violence and making power fantasy sequences function as the reason of tragic conclusion. I liked the theme of the movie that is 'the more power you have, the more of a monster you are, and you will also be responsible for the horrific death of those with less power'. In other words, cinematography was genuinely good enough to make set pieces work but editing ruined them. It's a shame because you can clearly see that the action scenes could work if they just used good shots. Think of set pieces from Quantum of Solace. Action scenes are consisted of 3-4 very well framed shots, 5 bad insert shots, and 4 shots that aren't well framed that aren't inserts with a pace that is impossible to follow. Violent scenes that have a lot of CGI don't really land.Īction editing is inexcusable. The theme of the movie is that people who have more power than others are violent monsters so I think conveying queasiness of violence is important but CGI should have been more polished to make that work. You can see the writer desperately trying to make the dialogue sound interesting but it ends of being irritating. I don't understand why you would try to make the protagonist 'likable' with cutesy bullshit when the protagonist behaves like Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees with superpower for the rest of the movie. It was so predictable and didn't fit with the film language and the tone.

I despised cutesy humor that belong in movies like Edward Scissorhands.

Comedic scenes and exposition scenes try to communicate the characters but it's done in such a clunky way and they tend to be too long. It has the worst tendencies of Marvel movies yet it's so lore brained that the structure is a mess. It's bold enough to suggest that superpower is a product of nazi science and US could acquire the technology through Operation Paperclip. It was interesting to talk about because it was pretty weird and misanthropic. It was mostly ok until the movie tries to convince you that the protagonist isn't a monster anymore because she doesn't kill anything that walks anymore with a boring exposition. The first one was an awkward start of the franchise. (I was pretty disappointed with the industry when I heard Park had a hard time getting the first one funded because it had a girl as the protagonist.) However, the movie is still disappointing. I admire his passion for telling this slightly unconventional, dark, edgy, and violent superhero story with female protagonists. Korea which produced the first one shutting down. I really respect Park Hoon-Jung making this movie despite many hardships such as having to quickly rewrite the script and having less budget than he was going to for the sequel because of pandemic and Warner Bros.

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