The film suffers from the same problem something like War Of The Worlds by Steven Spielberg suffers from. It is too good for its own good. You have so much dopamine from the good stuff that it overshadows any Norepinephrine from the scary stuff.
I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t too good for anything.
It’s a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.
The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn’t just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it’s a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.
But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.
I enjoyed it, but it certainly isn’t too good for anything.
It’s a fun romp, albeit somewhat typical. Screenplay is decent, but filled with a bit too much forced fan service. The world building is fantastic, though, and pretty much worth the price of admission itself.
The deepfake version of Ian Holm is pretty egregious. Given that they developed a puppet, and that the character was meant to be a broken android anyway (not a spoiler), I do wonder why they didn’t just lean in to the weird face of a puppet. Why are his movements weird and mechanistic? Because it’s a broken android. That may have aged better than the deepfake.
But overall, worth a watch, which is at least more than can be said for other series outings.