As an other reviewer wrote, there are wooden language, wooden expressions and wooden dialogue.
The first ting I noticed in the movie was the words the actors spoke seemed like they had been written by a teenager... so many pointless words.
Then there where the actors speaking the words, they just seemed wierd and emotionless.
Then there are the action scenes. There are a lot of them, and they could have been really good. But the editing are just a bunch of normal speed, slow speed clipping to make it look good, and the bad guys just stand still doing nothing while the "hero" spends minutes moving around in the open...
CGI/Greenscreen galore.. but very well done. So this is perhaps the strongest part of the movie.
Waisted and nonsense slowmo sections... there are so many of them... and they are so pointless and gives nothing to the movie. There are movies and directors that know how to use slow motion sequences in a movie, and then there are this movie and director, that did not take that class... it's just a waist of time.
In summary, if you are able to ignore all the writing, dialogue, acting/directing issues... its a passable scifi action movie.
The movie could have been so much better, because there is a decent enough story underneath.. and they obviously had enough money to do what they wanted...
I'm assuming Netflix payed for this. So I'm guessing that there where a big payday for writer/director and no requirements for quality on the delivered product. So they just cut from the budget anyone that could have given the director feedback on the uality issues.
The first ting I noticed in the movie was the words the actors spoke seemed like they had been written by a teenager... so many pointless words.
Then there where the actors speaking the words, they just seemed wierd and emotionless.
Then there are the action scenes. There are a lot of them, and they could have been really good. But the editing are just a bunch of normal speed, slow speed clipping to make it look good, and the bad guys just stand still doing nothing while the "hero" spends minutes moving around in the open...
CGI/Greenscreen galore.. but very well done. So this is perhaps the strongest part of the movie.
Waisted and nonsense slowmo sections... there are so many of them... and they are so pointless and gives nothing to the movie. There are movies and directors that know how to use slow motion sequences in a movie, and then there are this movie and director, that did not take that class... it's just a waist of time.
In summary, if you are able to ignore all the writing, dialogue, acting/directing issues... its a passable scifi action movie.
The movie could have been so much better, because there is a decent enough story underneath.. and they obviously had enough money to do what they wanted...
I'm assuming Netflix payed for this. So I'm guessing that there where a big payday for writer/director and no requirements for quality on the delivered product. So they just cut from the budget anyone that could have given the director feedback on the uality issues.