“The one issue I take with this movie, it’s got the same problem as Wonder Woman: love may be the foundation, but the drywall, the paint, the lighting, and the appliances are all ass kicking action.
And, well the action, for me, wasn’t there. This is a ME thing, I don’t feel the love for heavy cg martial arts action. It just doesn’t feel like anything is really there. I’d usually prefer something closer to real with less impressive acrobatics but more weight, OR something that goes even further over the top.
I’m guessing few viewers are going to feel this movie wasnt over the top enough, that’s pretty reasonable.
And because the action wasn’t lighting my world on fire, I spent a lot of this movie waiting for the good stuff: the larger emotional story.
Yes, a man who cites Demoltion Man as a favorite movie is saying the emotional drama was the good stuff in this movie.
And it was. Ke Huy Quan steals the show more than a bit on this side of things, and that’s okay, he earns it big time. The dramatic moments were really good in this movie and I loved them.
For me, the me in this universe, the movie was a little too action packed, making me wait way too long between things for that emotional payoff.
Maybe part of this is that I’m no stranger to oddity stories with an emotional core. There’s a book called Tumor Fruit that I read and found completely bizarre and oddly touching, as I have more than a few Carlton Mellick III books.
My guess is that a lot of viewers had a first experience with something being this weird in plot and visuals and also being so relatable on an emotional level. Or maybe a first experience with a really strange story being used to talk about a theme that’s so normal. And that’s rad because it’s a great thing to have and to see.
For me, I really seek those things out, especially in books, and you’re 10th time never hits as hard as your first.”