Action Hero MoviesThis movie kicks off with the usual sick satanic vibe dressed up in a comicbook style for kids. Patience is needed early on.
Before 15 minutes in, there’s talk of “viral shedding” — clearly pushing an official alt narrative relating to the events of the last few years. A few MAGA hat wearers will buy into it, no doubt.
The first half hour continues, with a lot of eccentric semi-juvenile action. Vibes of the Deadpool genre — true junk cinema.
By the half way mark, despite its less than ideal demeanour, it’s remained quite consistently engaging and has some decent action scenes and some decent actors so it’s looking set for a Bang Average rating. Certainly not one for frequent rewatching, but the first watch holds attention quite well despite its hit & miss genre reminiscent of an average watchable show on terrestrial TV back in the days when there were only a very small set of options what to watch. Having said that, things like the extended musical scenes are highly skippable unless you’re into lame pop chanting.
It’s not pleasant to see the promotion of telling lies to kids as some kind of great parenting approach, nor the jumpy gimme gimme attitude towards high sugar chocolate as some kind of cool thing carefree youths should aspire to.