I feel PEARL HARBOR was an hour too long and it hurt what might have been a better shorter film, much like this film. Now - I know I'm supposed to be the big Michael Bay apologist - for the record - I loved and continue to love BAD BOYS 1 & 2, THE ROCK and ARMAGEDDON. Michael Bay is famous for pointless asides, and this time he has a solid hour and a half of story telling, padded with absolute bullshit. But I really would like it to serve the story. I'm all for off-color humor and thumbing your nose at the PC police. But my problems with these things aren't so much of the PC variety. There's a black man with bad teeth working in a Butcher Shop to earn new teeth that kinda blew my mind. But the racial stuff isn't limited to just the animated variety. It's almost like Michael Bay showed the script to George Lucas and Uncle George let loose with another of his awesomely inappropriate animated racial slurs. The well talked about racist foul-mouthed robots that are built in monkey proportions, have a big shiny gold tooth and do nothing to advance the story an inch. An extended sequence of Mom hopped up on pot brownies on a reefer madness binge. The film is padded by an hour of completely unnecessary, worthless, offensive and repugnant sequences that do nothing but tread water. But for pure IMAGERY - there are two sequences that the IMAX experience makes unbelievable. You won't really be emotionally involved because frankly, no character work has been done to make you feel involved. It makes two action sequences pretty fucking amazing to just stare at. If you want to see this - that is how to see it.
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