Review Time: this sequel is poor
Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music, cultural elements,
slow-motion effects, mental imagery, time jumps and place jumps.
The
movement; well this film is really slow, minus roughly around the final eighth,
because of this; it makes the other problems that this sequel has incredibly
easy to pick up on which I will discuss in this review.
Back stories/Storyline: the back stories get discussed in the dialogue exchanges and the
storyline is very predictable
Action sequences/Comedy level/Artistic visions: there are weapons being used, combat, on the water [boat and
speedboat,] under the water and in the air such as for one example these little
but highly dangerous swarms of drones, vehicles, helicopters and choppers
[design for combat,] training and things being blown up or explosions, so yes
the action sequences can be seen as a massive asset to this sequel and the
comedy level is little bits and pieces such as when there are many explosions
around this one location
The artistic
visions; there is a movement when our lead character/role is in this training
location [the beginning of this film] and we get this first-person shooter perspective
and there is this origami scene.
Character developments/Performances: now the character developments on one hand are a big problem, because
with the movement and the very predictable storyline I could quickly work out
who the bad guys are [okay I may have gotten them in the wrong order,] but
other than that I was right and it really didn't take me that long. Now on the
other hand there are some good character developments such as this old
character that has clearly been on his own for too long and it shows in the way
he chooses to defend his home/territory
Likewise
without repeating myself too much the performances have the same problem,
because this film gives the character developments away too easily or too
quickly the performances can be seen to be fair to the performers something at
worst solid at best good [it depends which characters/performers you have on
screen at that specific time,] yes the chemistry/friction can be either as flat
as a pancake or is there naturally [depending what characters/performers you
have on screen at that specific time is depending what you get as well.]
This film receives: 2/10, what irritates me about this film so much is when you get to
roughly the final eighth of this sequel it starts to move, feel and look what
it wants to be; enthusiastic, I mean okay I am not talking about being constant
action but it would have been nice if this sequel would have gotten out of
first gear a lot sooner than what it did, they could have easily just moved
through the gears; I mean I know this formula or format is very predictable but
it is also very reliable; it would have worked and instead I would have
preferred that and there is one other thing I should point out; the reason why
this sequel gets given this mark is I quickly got bored with it and mentally
switched off, so yes I can tell you that roughly around the final eighth of
this sequel things pick up a lot, but I can't put to one side I switched off
mentally and then got mentally switched back on and interested in the film
roughly around the final eighth, so in short yes I have highlighted the there
are some very predictable elements to this sequel, but maybe if it had a bit
more get up and go to it may be things wouldn't have turned out this bad from
this perspective a better paced project would have gave me less time to notice
things or I would have probably still picked up on them, but they wouldn't have
been so obvious or transparent [but that is just an observation/speculation
because we don't know how it would have turned out, but this is just how things
are in front of me.]
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