Lana Wachowski

Preposterous eye-candy. Channing Tatum was surprisingly good. An interlude in a human house that is slowly turning into a beehive is pretty neat. Some Whedonesque humourous interludes to bring relief from the big set pieces. Eddie Redmayne chews the scenery to bits. The whole thing is marred by romance (the genre which, according to Neal Stephenson, has taken over the movies). The (very long) fight scene at the end was a tedious nod to the conventions of the genre, and quite uninteresting.

An unhappy programmer finds out... some stuff that would be spoilers.

Huh. Well that hasn't aged well. After seeing it a few times, the once-mind-bending science fiction has nothing to offer, and instead I just notice how it doesn't hold up to too much thought. And after the last decade, the movie's once-awesomely-innovative style just looks like every other bad action movie. It's really only got two good things left: Mr. Smith, and Hugo Weaving.

Concept: A
Story: C
Characters: D
Dialog: D
Pacing: show more B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: A
Acting: D
Music: D

Enjoyment: C plus

GPA: 2.2/4 show less

The plot is just OK, and the dialogue and performances frequently overly campy (somewhat saved by some of the cast being quite excellent actors), but the world building and visuals are both amazing, making it a very immersive and entertaining experience for all its other flaws.

Some parts of this was cheesy but it was a GOOD kind of cheesy, I think overall this movie was a pretty fantastic upgrade to the Speed Racer story and you also have quite a bit of solid acting talent here, including John Goodman and Susan Sarandon. One of my personal favorite films, highly recommended.