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User Reviews for: The Old Guard

xaliber
6/10  4 years ago
Started out OK, but in the second half the pace and plot kind of fell apart. Has an interesting premise - immortal humans connected to each other - but seems to have too many ideas they wanted to piece together without being able to pull it off.

The good first. The action sequences, when done right, were fine. Not spectacular, but nice. The action scene on the big pharma is quite well done in that regard (the one where they used one of them as a human shield). The first half is kind of nice in setting up the characters (disregarding the film's sense of place or time). However the film only goes that far.

The story (and its pacing) and the characters are not the strongest.

Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) seems intriguing at first, as a motivated man with a purpose, but near the end it almost seemed like the film abandoned his character development as it's beyond Ejiofor's paycheck (or, setting his appearance as a sequel). His scrapbook subplot and Andromache's (Charlize Theron) off-hand remark about "the world isn't getting better!" appears to be an attempt to be philosophical with the question like, "what is our purpose", "what can we do for the world", etc, but it ended up as superficial as the questions were partially given easy answer in the end (look at these documentations on the goods you've done for 'humanity'!), like something out of confused superhero comic book.

The relationship between characters has potential, but remain in the background. Booker has an interesting past (the struggle he had to experience regarding his son), but wasn't explored further, not even as his motivation in the climax. Joe and Nicky don't seem to have chemistry; they only look like a Netflix token LGBT characters. The dialogue while they're on the van feels particularly tacked on, even more awkward with the following responses from the cops/private security.

The worst part however has to be the music directing. It is horrible. Who the hell thought random selection of pop and R&B music for action sequences is a good idea? It made the scenes like a cheap teenaged Nickelodean drama.

It's watchable nonetheless, but not the one I'd recommend unless you have too much spare time or just want some random screening with your family.
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