Is this a good movie? No. Is it entertaining? Yes. It's visually stimulating and at the same time, dumb as a rock. There's barely a story and there are no surprises. Don't think about the lack of storyline or interesting character development. It just isn't there.
Ramin Djawadi's soundtrack sounds like it has all the makings for another masterpiece until you realize that he's just recycling the same hook over and over and over, which happens about 5 minutes in and continues for the entire 2+ hours.
None of the actors were particularly bad, but they all seemed to be quite a bit off their game. I think it was the terrible dialogue. It's hard to get much emotional impact out of "Let's do this thing!" Oh, and the director has to take a lot of the blame here, too. I wish it were otherwise, but I don't think this did anybody's resume any good. Maybe from the box office profits, but not from an intellectual, artistic level.
Much of the action makes no sense. For example, weapons are used after things go bad. Why not use them before? There were so many problems with this mindless blockbuster, I don't even know where to begin.
Disappointing.
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