A waste of time and money. It begins with a lot of bang and agitation but then continues flatly and unimpressive. A lot of noise for nothing.
Keanu is more inexpressive than ever (and I am honestly still a big fan), even though he could have easily taken full advantage of his opportunity to portray an unusual character, an out of this world being residing in a fresh host who has to handle an unfamiliar body. Jennifer Connelly goes all high-strung and agitated and suffering for too little a movie while Jaden Smith is useless and quite a bit arrogant almost as if he realizes what a waste of effort this is.
There's not much action, just a lot of mise en scène and a lot of unnecessary exhibition of the US armed potential in the face of a massive threat. We were already aware of that, we've seen it all way too many times before. If anyone still had some high hope regarding the special effects, the film makers are actually not very generous with those either, as all we ever see is restricted to a few scenes that present an Aurora Borealis like image, "captured" in some menacing spheres and a storm of .. ruthless and invincible (think again) nanorobots with a piranha personality. And that's it.
Never mind the big final lesson/revelation which is hardly sustained by anything and leads to the liberating and predictable ending. You're better off choosing the War Of The Worlds.
This is a translation of an older post, see it here
Keanu is more inexpressive than ever (and I am honestly still a big fan), even though he could have easily taken full advantage of his opportunity to portray an unusual character, an out of this world being residing in a fresh host who has to handle an unfamiliar body. Jennifer Connelly goes all high-strung and agitated and suffering for too little a movie while Jaden Smith is useless and quite a bit arrogant almost as if he realizes what a waste of effort this is.
There's not much action, just a lot of mise en scène and a lot of unnecessary exhibition of the US armed potential in the face of a massive threat. We were already aware of that, we've seen it all way too many times before. If anyone still had some high hope regarding the special effects, the film makers are actually not very generous with those either, as all we ever see is restricted to a few scenes that present an Aurora Borealis like image, "captured" in some menacing spheres and a storm of .. ruthless and invincible (think again) nanorobots with a piranha personality. And that's it.
Never mind the big final lesson/revelation which is hardly sustained by anything and leads to the liberating and predictable ending. You're better off choosing the War Of The Worlds.
This is a translation of an older post, see it here
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