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Un-original, even in its wokeness.
Admitedly, I haven't set foot in Norway in a long while. But I don't remember it as being quite that diverse. The crowds, not the characters with lines. But women everywhere in public office, that part is accurate. The rest (white men) are retarded. Main character is a nordic, loud-mouthed boss bitch with a colossal sense of her own importance. The only one in the room who can recognize footprints. By the way, the prints, close up, are fairly small compared to the beast's size. 150 feet, and the character does say 50 meters. Big ambitions, tiny bugdet, I guess. Creature's nowhere that tall. Nature shots are gorgeous. That's free. But well shot. Comamndo guy looks gay, Dad's a loony, G-man looks oddly Indian. The father-daughter chemistry feels off to me (or maybe I'm lucky with me wee lass). The only (short) scene that did not feel contrived was the guys bonding over Call of Duty. Script is Jurassic-zilla with a Scandinavian skin. How does one apply fire to offset regeneration if their skin is stone? Why are their tongues organic? Why do they have tails? Wait, that one is normal. Whatever, I just want my XP. Same level of stupidity too: no real-life military would deploy infantry against anything that big. And possibly not organic. Big boy, big toy. Bunker buster, baby, cause there's no kill like overkill. So yeah, _that_ kind of movie. Commando guy whips out his 416 after seeing the troll tank an artillery volley unscathed. Godzilla or Cloverfield did it better, with a creature so vast that it defied modern weaponry. Then again, budget. As for anti-Christianity: it's a staple of Nordic mythos that the pre-Christian creatures are not compatible with the new religion. Same as the Fay of Brittany. But trolls that can "smell the blood of a Christian man" go pretty far back in the folk tales, and are not a modern attack on Christians. There's a definite 'eco' undertone, though, despite a jab at 'Greta'. All in all, I don't think this movie is actively woke. It's passively woke, basically what 'acceptable' culture is to 'normal' people over there. Maybe even what the director / producers _think_ people want. Yeah. That far gone. Then again, it's from the guy who gifted us A-cup Tomb Raider (which I haven't seen), so maybe I'm wrong, and it's his attempt to placate normal people. Also, it is rather mediocre. Won't watch the sequel.
A must-see if you love rom-coms!
It's been ages since there's been a movie like this. A simple premise with the single, solid aim of entertaining people and giving everyone a great time. Highly recommended! Enjoy!
What did you expect?
From the get-go, Anderson let's it all hang out. And late 20s Anderson is sexy as sin. Also, Word Up. The Gun cover, but it's still good. The music's the best part of the movie. Except the porno-sax parts. The movie is basically Mad Maxablanca with boobs. Boobs on Boggie. Disturbing. Not sure it's comics-accurate, but who's read this? Funny thing, America is ravaged by (un)civil strife in ... 2017. Reality was less fun. Then again, the 'safe' dollar is Canadian, so, sci-fi. Also, Casablanca made sense to escape from Europe at the time. But trying to sneak into Canada? Isn't the border on the huge side? Anderson is hardly inside her costumes. Not a thespian by any means, but she fits the role. She goes through the action parts a lot better than expected. Morrison is just out of Once Were Warriors, but hey, bills are bills. Rowell is (not) out of The Young & The Restless. Over 800 episodes. Impressive until one learns there are over 13k episodes. Anyway, not quite talented, but gorgeous. Berkeley is a solid actor, doing a solid job. Kier is, well, Kier. Has been all his life, so he's good at it. The photography is surprisingly acceptable, albeit on the darker side, and the whole thing is rather well paced. Hogan does have a gazillion music videos to his name, so there's that. No agenda that I could see. For those screaming Nazi imagery! Well, Casablanca rip-off, so Nazi rip-off. Common sense rip-off. It has some fun lines ("Pleasure doing business with you" "If it was pleasure, I'd charge more."), charismatic actors, a decent script, good music, good photo. I rate it a solid 60% as a second-screener (technically third screen, but let us not nitpick). As a main watch? It's a safe (but not for work) double-bill with Street Fighter, I guess.
Let's not compare, because it doesn't
I would have rated this lower, but there has been so few comedies of late. And movies without an agenda. And it has Weird Al. Neeson somehow stopped aging at 50 - he's still doing action flicks - but he's in the low seventies I think; same as Nielsen during his tenure. He does his best, but lacks Nielsen's natural, goofy, self-aware comedic charm. Anderson, well, looks Neeson's age, and never was much of an actress to begin with. Except maybe Barb Wire. Ah, time goes by. The whole movie feels more like a 90s uninspired spoof movie (Kingsman in this case), with the only tangible link to Police Squad and The Naked Gun being the end credits. Don't miss the end credits. And go watch the originals. Which probably means go to your living room, but you get the point. And old ZAZ stuff.
