Reminds me of the Matrix Reloaded where the action was kicked up a notch in replacement of the story that laid the foundation in the first movie.
This is what a mindless action movie driven by a girl looks like. She spends the whole movie kicking ass and taking names, and she still gets to be rescued by what now is her dashing sidekick. I'm not hating on that.
The violence was grand. Usually when you adapted a book to the big screen, you tone that down but this does not seem to (although I never read the book). It has everything that a guy would like in an action movie: Chases, fights,gun play. All that is done well.
The only problem is, as a sequel you have to know what happen in the last movie to get what's going on here.
The first movie had a voice over narration to move parts of the story along not fully portrayed on screen. This movie could have used something like that as it is not able to stand alone. Of course the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies are like that but those stores are a little more interesting. This story was paste together with no care and felt like it. As I watched all the action go down I could not care less about the quest.
Luckily Shailene Woodley who plays the hero and Kate Winslet who plays the villain were interesting enough without the story to keep the movie going. It was fun watching these two opposing forces go up against each other.
Overall, it really is an action movie with a less intelligent story (like most action movies). It's no Hunger Games saga.
It's cliché to say the sequel will never out due the original but...
This is what a mindless action movie driven by a girl looks like. She spends the whole movie kicking ass and taking names, and she still gets to be rescued by what now is her dashing sidekick. I'm not hating on that.
The violence was grand. Usually when you adapted a book to the big screen, you tone that down but this does not seem to (although I never read the book). It has everything that a guy would like in an action movie: Chases, fights,gun play. All that is done well.
The only problem is, as a sequel you have to know what happen in the last movie to get what's going on here.
The first movie had a voice over narration to move parts of the story along not fully portrayed on screen. This movie could have used something like that as it is not able to stand alone. Of course the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies are like that but those stores are a little more interesting. This story was paste together with no care and felt like it. As I watched all the action go down I could not care less about the quest.
Luckily Shailene Woodley who plays the hero and Kate Winslet who plays the villain were interesting enough without the story to keep the movie going. It was fun watching these two opposing forces go up against each other.
Overall, it really is an action movie with a less intelligent story (like most action movies). It's no Hunger Games saga.
It's cliché to say the sequel will never out due the original but...