Review Time: this
film is excellent.
Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music
slow-motion effects, time jumps and place jumps.
Artistic visions/Action sequences: the artistic visions are easy to see be it the costumes
or the vehicles of any description, landscapes or the presentation of Skeletor
[Frank Langella.]
Moving
on to the action sequences briefly at first there are weapons being used,
combat elements and chasing sequences. I would say there is a good variety in
these action sequences, yes you have He-Man kicking posterior and taking
numbers, but we also have him on this mobile sky unit chasing down these Air Centurions and the classic Good vs. Evil one-on-one sequence [He-Man vs.
Skeletor] late on in this title as well.
Character developments/Performances: I will begin with the mixed character, the reason why I
said mixed is because this character is important to the storyline but I can
take him or leave him [or he is just there.] The character I am making
reference to goes by the name of Gwildor, let's put the fact that he has an
important role in the storyline to one side for a minute, but I have one thing
on my mind which is this and I will never find out the answer to this question;
but was this character designed just to bring in a younger age group? Because I
have been doing this long enough now and I could be wrong but this is how it
looks.
But
for the rest they are good or they make a big impact in this title in one way
or another, the chemistry between Skeletor/Langella and Evil-Lyn/Foster is very
interesting and engaging, I must stress these elements are small, yet here and
there but they are beautifully managed to illustrate that there may be more to
this relationship than just a leader and a second-in-command dynamic.
Skeletor/Langella;
because I am aware that there is a reboot in the works, if I could make one
suggestion it would be this; just take a look at this character/performer he
does a fantastic job of understanding how big this character is; from the
perspective of stage presence, dialogue or dialogue exchanges and everything
about this version of this character, whenever this character/performer is on
screen, he just brings every other character/performer up to his level, in
fairness and balance minus Evil-Lyn/Foster this character/performer with [as I
have already made reference to] or without him is a strong
character/performance in her own right.
This film receives:
8/10, this is one of those occasions where I can appreciate for this time in
history [the 1980's,] they did the best with what they had at their disposal on
every single level, yes there is some form of comedy elements and there is a
slice of cheesiness to this title, but anything less feels a little bit harsh
as it relates to this mark considering everything I have pointed out in this
review.
On
a quick side note; I do know that there are many well-known characters missing
from this project, I am not going to take any marks off for this, because at
least they were fair and did it on both sides, but more importantly and just
taking an educated guess they probably or may have had a limited budget to
begin with and just to finish off, there is a scene at the end of this title
that makes no sense based on I am still waiting to see what happens next and
yes I know I will be always waiting now [after the ending credits.]
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