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Finally saw it, been formulating my opinion, I have to say there was tons of stuff about that movie that needed work. Not all bad but not suxxors either.
The Good.
I LOVED Selina Miller, she was awesome (until a certain plot point that bothered me, but more on that later).
Pretty much everything with Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes Rocked (besides SE's Lips).
Liked the Pit attack, Ambush, and most of the paris chase (with the exception of a few moments with the suits)
What little Zartan did was kind of cool. Also liked the breif exchange with Zartan and Storm Shadow in Hawk's office.
Heavy Duty was much cooler than expect dispite his small roll.
The Bad:
baroness becomes a "good Guy" WTF!!!! Baroness is now an unwilling victim iwth a heart? NO! She is evil and making her a victim shatters the whole character. I can deal with not having a European background, I can even deal with her not being aristocratic, but this "innocent victim" crap totally messes up her character.
Felt a majority of the movie was a rip off of X-Men. Two people attacked by an unknown group go to a secret installation that is underground, met an unusal group of people, one of which happens to be a scientist type with red hair. Even had thier master of disguise taking the place of a person of power in the government at the end. Not a total rip off but definatly had too many elements that were impossible not to notice.
Too many "deleated sceans" that were too obvious, especially at the end. HD's sub is half the size and his co-pilot is missing for instnace. Also the "Wild weasle-esce" siut that wrapped around ripcord had disappeared by the point he had pulled his chute.
The Ugly
Rex, the whole character. One day just desides to be a bad guy and takes over the world. No real motivations for him there. Don't get me wrong, he did the best with what he was handed but really it was crap.
Not enough Destro, especially being the main vilan.
Flashbacks killed teh pace of the film
Too many "OH hey I know what they are doing" without any clues as to how the characters would have figured it out.
Plot holes you could drive a mack truck through (Destro stealing his own weapons, no real explaination of why nanites need to be weaponized or why, What was Rex's thing he had to do when he went into that bunker. Let's put the rookies in the multi million dollar suits on thier first mission with the unit.
Some very dry acting (the worst being Chaning Tatum, but even Quaid was a bit guilty of it too.
Thing is the elements are all there for a great film but the aplication just falls short. While some great parts come through, muchof the film was trudges along just trying to get somewhere.
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