11-30-2019, 12:26 AM
This is what happens when you put a bunch of steampunk designers together with cgi programmers but forget to add scriptwriters. it's visually kinda interesting but void of story, which is odd since it's based on a tetralogy. the characters come off flat. yeah, yeah, no motivation beyond the obvious.
the plot was a lot of poaching. there's the terminator zombie. there's the medusa death star and the bomber run to stop it. there's an empire 'i'm your father' moment. and there were swordfights and for a moment, almost a decent reason to have them in the floating city because blasters could spark the incendiary gas (i've always thought that would be a fine device for swordfights in space ships - can't blow the airlock with a gun).
the best part was seeing bobby draper from the Expanse in a small part that was so parallel to frankie adams role as the martian marine, if her character had been very minor instead of pivotal like in the tv show. i thought that this role here might have led to her role in the expanse but the timing isn't quite right (draper appears in s2 which was 2017 and this was 2018, was it?)
i liked the azn outlaw because she reminded me a lot of someone i used to know, a wife of a shaolin monk actually. but none of the actors managed to deliver a single line without sounded staged and flat. unmotivated.
anyway, it was such a waste and i kept wondering how it might have been redeemed, what it needed, i mean apart from motivations. it's obvious really. it needed bollywood dance numbers.
not doom recommended.
the plot was a lot of poaching. there's the terminator zombie. there's the medusa death star and the bomber run to stop it. there's an empire 'i'm your father' moment. and there were swordfights and for a moment, almost a decent reason to have them in the floating city because blasters could spark the incendiary gas (i've always thought that would be a fine device for swordfights in space ships - can't blow the airlock with a gun).
the best part was seeing bobby draper from the Expanse in a small part that was so parallel to frankie adams role as the martian marine, if her character had been very minor instead of pivotal like in the tv show. i thought that this role here might have led to her role in the expanse but the timing isn't quite right (draper appears in s2 which was 2017 and this was 2018, was it?)
i liked the azn outlaw because she reminded me a lot of someone i used to know, a wife of a shaolin monk actually. but none of the actors managed to deliver a single line without sounded staged and flat. unmotivated.
anyway, it was such a waste and i kept wondering how it might have been redeemed, what it needed, i mean apart from motivations. it's obvious really. it needed bollywood dance numbers.
not doom recommended.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse