Bringing this one back from the dead as it came out in Redbox, and so my son decided to spend a buck on it last night because it just couldn't be "that" bad.
Well folks.... it was. Well, let's not say bad but just.... nothing. There was at no point ANY kind of reaction to any part of the movie between the three of us. Absolutlely nothing elicited a response. When it was over we all just looked at one another with blank expressions as asked "did we actually just watch a movie"? I'm not even sure how to explain it.
I'm not going to spoiler anything just in case, but I will say that it might well have been the biggest anticlimactic final battle ever filmed, and it lasted all of 3 minutes or so.
So, to sum it up, boring plot (we won't even get started on the plot craters), no chemistry, no real backstory or character development other than some for Reed, no real reason for Ben to even be in the movie (95% of Ben fighting was seen via a computer or TV monitor), no understandable motivation for emo Vic, and no real reason to even like or care about ANY of the characters (and all this is AFTER they tried to fix it). I guess my feeling is that it started as an interesting idea and that's where it stopped.
And yes, I'm actually angry that we wasted one dollar between the three of us to see this! Okay, done ranting, but if I've saved even one soul from wasting their time on this then my sons dollar will have been well spent!