Review Time: this project is highly entertaining
Fundamental elements: there are words and a number on screen, with
voice-over elements, background music, cultural elements, slow-motion effects,
environmental elements, yes and no to subtitles being used when another
language is being used, time jumps and place jumps.
Storyline/Comedy
level: in a nutshell it is
well-balanced between origin/growing up lead character, history elements,
origin elements of other characters [which could be as small as a name, but
still great value nonetheless] and present elements and there is one more thing
I should just point out and I think I can get away with saying this because it
wouldn't be too much information anyway, the audience don't get the
step-by-step origin storyline of our lead character instead they have gone with
something different in this title and that is as much as I can say, so if you
were thinking that you were going to see a step-by-step storyline formula I can
tell you; you don't get this formula.
Moving on to the comedy level this itself has
also been given the same detail and respect, basically the viewers don't get
the sense of something like this; "Now it's time to be funny" or any
force comedy elements, but instead they have gone with natural or little bits
of comedy which for the moment feels right.
Action
sequences/Artistic visions:
for the next two elements it would be much easier to talk about them at the
same time, because these two elements have a glorious yet strong presence in
this title, I don't mean to repeat myself; but once again on these two
elements, they have really pulled out all the stops and given them a high level
of care and attention, they are all entertaining with plenty of imagination,
just in case I haven't made this clear enough already they will hit you in the
face with amazing action and faultless visions of beauty throughout.
Character
developments/Performances:
now as it relates to our lead role some of his character developments come from
the origin/growing up [I was just thinking I would point this out before
someone else pointed that out for me,] but there is still elements of character
developments of this character in this project and I don't have any problems
with the rest of the character developments. The performers of this cast should
be very happy with what they have done in this title, their dialogue or
dialogue exchanges are of very high standard and there is excellent chemistry
in this cast.
This
film receives: 10/10, now I have
forgotten elements of this title but as you can see I still remembered quite a
lot to put this review together, it is nothing to do with I found this film
boring, that is far from the truth this film does have so much to offer that
you can be forgiven for not taking it all in, I want to make this crystal clear
yes I may have forgotten some of this film but I knew I wanted to give this
mark.
Now I want to talk about one problem and it will
become clear why I haven't mentioned it until now in short it has nothing to do
with this title, it has more to do with the bigger picture of things which if
it is not addressed properly it will become a massive problem at some point
down the line.
Let's get down to business we have Wonder Woman
and now Aquaman that now have been given the same level of treatment as in time
to grow and develop amongst other things, basically these two characters
individually are ready for their individual sequels.
Here's the problem as it stands or potentially in
the future if they don't give the same kind of level of attention to any other
Justice League member when or if there is to be a sequel or any other crossover
the chemistry and the dynamic of this group or any group could come across as
potentially really disjointed, so you have two characters in Wonder Woman and
Aquaman which will have better chemistry because of their individual character
developments and you have the rest that may could come across as undeveloped or
half developed compared to the previous two I have just mentioned, the more I
think about it the more I would strongly dislike to be in a situation where,
hypothetically I know straight off the bat it is almost mandatory for my
characters to have this level of in-depth character development based on two
reasons; the first being the viewing audiences will pick up on any half way
character developments and the second being as I have already said if there was
to be a crossover of some description the gap between the character
developments would be noticeable and hard work to watch.
I am most probably going to receive some negative
feedback for this, but I can't help it if it is true. There are many reasons
why I prefer the MCU [Marvel Cinematic Universe,] as it relates to this topic
briefly and generally speaking the character developments between; the first
title to second title to third [let's include the crossovers or anything else I
might have forgotten as well,] there never quite the same film title to title
which is a good thing it shows the character or characters in question are
getting older amongst other things and I'm just guessing here but an educated
guess as well, from a writing perspective it must be rewarding to develop these
characters over time, to basically chisel a little by little at these
characters and here is the crucial thing to move them forward and forward again
and again until that version of a character has politely finished their time in
this Universe.
You see by doing it this way it avoids the
potential problems I have been discussing as it relates to the character
developments of the Worlds of DC or once again being polite whatever they like
to call themselves, but I know it runs the risk of irritating some people out
there, but then again this is based on fact so there isn't much I can do about
it; the box office takings between these two different Worlds or Universe
doesn't lie one is looking at an average of hundreds of millions, whilst the
other is looking at a average of high-ranking hundreds of millions possibly a Billion dollars, there are two
things I want to point out these are just averages and yes I haven't checked
this out for some time, without sounding arrogant I don't need to because it
has been this way for years, but for fairness and balance I did check out
Wonder Woman 2017, because I have a feeling this project did fantastic at the
box office and I was right, so I cannot say they cannot have similar success to
the MCU but they just have to put in the same level of detail and attention to
Wonder Woman 2017 and this title consistently to get a similar financial return
as the MCU.
But here is another problem where I have been
really positive when the Worlds of DC do something right, they go and
potentially go back to their usual standard of filmmaking by bringing out
Shazam! 2019 which I may have only seen one trailer or potentially other
trailers, but based on what I have seen [and just for the record I would love
to be wrong that is the thing I want to see any comic book company doing well
as it relates to any of their projects, but Shazam! looks and feels like
everything is going to be a paint by numbers process and the comedy level looks
to be easily staged or something like this, in fairness we will have to wait
and see, but then again this is precisely what I mean where this wonderfully
balanced film with many things to offer and then, you go from this to Shazam!
which you couldn't get much further away from one another even if you tried
[based on its qualities,] I will finish this review by saying this is what
irritates me about the Worlds of DC they show us their potential now and again,
in one or two titles and then they seem to fall into this massive hole of half-hearted film titles which usually has many problems with it on some level or
levels.
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