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Star Trek 2 was a big hit and would go on to big a big cult phenomenon, but maybe that is due to what number it is. It seems that (when it comes to Star Trek movies) the odd numbered movies are the worst of them while the even numbered are the treasures of the bunch. I've seen all six of the original movies and none of the Next Generation movies, and this theory seems to be right. Star Trek the motion picture is a stale rip off of 2001 and Final Frontier does not have as much of a lasting impression as the others, but the exception to this rule is Star Trek 3 Search for Spock. I think I might even enjoy more that Wrath of Khan.

The movie begins with a battered Enterprise going back to Star-fleet with Kirk and the whole crew morning the loss of Spock, meanwhile Dr. McCoy seems to be suffering a breakdown thinking that he's Spock. Later the crew gets their well deserved pat on the back but they learn that the Enterprise will be decommissioned being considered out of date (well it is twenty years old). Later again the crew meet up in Kirk's apartment but they have an unexpected visitor, Spock's father (Mark Lenard), who asks why he denied Spock his future. Apparently when Vulcan's are near death they can pour their soul into one who they trust so that they can be restored after their body has healed, makes scenes. So naturally Kirk wants to recover Spock's body and steals the Enterprise to do it.

One of the most interesting notes to make about Search for Spock is that it is directed by Lenard Nimoy, this is most interesting because Spock's presence can be felt throughout the movie. Along with this Nimoy can get some really good performances from his long term college's, everyone does a very good job especially Shatner, William Shatner has often been connected with cringing bad performances but here hes at the top of his game, not Oscar worthy but very enjoyable.

The villain this time is a Klingon Commander Kruge played by Christopher Lloyd, who wants the Genesis missile for its destructive capability's. Lloyd is one of those good old reliable actors who no matter what material you give him he'll produce a solid performance along with long lasting memorability. He's really good as this bad to the bone Klingon Commander who learns of this missile that can transform a barren wasteland into a vibrant oasis and all he sees is the ability to wipe out the enemies of the Klingon empire.

We then see that Kirk's son David is on Genesis monitoring his planets condition, it seems to be going through crazy climate changes as well as there seems to be a life form of the planet. They beem down to discover an infant Vulcan child, guess who this is. Yes they find a baby Spock on the plant with no memories, we then learn that David added a dangerous chemical to the Genesis missile that has made the planet unstable and is now exploding from within.

Later once the Enterprise reaches Genesis they encounter the Klingon's and have a little fight that ends with both shaken, but Kruge is holding David and the others hostage and David sacrifices himself for the others and merely minutes after they initiate the self destruct code for the Enterprise so they can take out the invading Klingon's, the destruction of the Enterprise isn't as shaking as Spock death but its heavy enough and is still memorable. Then finally Kirk and Kruge have their rough and tumble on an exploding planet, this is nice to see because Kirk and Khan never met face to face.

After Spock is brought back to Vulcan the ceremony goes through with out a hitch, Spock has his memory back and Kirk says "that the need of the one outweigh the needs of the many" clearly in denial.

Looking at it again Search for Spock is a little depressing, Wrath of Khan ended with the birth of a new planet and Kirk feeling reinvigorated, and Search for Spock shows the intentions of Genesis as a weapon and the missile not even working it seems to be taking the hopefulness that Khan ended on and Spock gives all that the slap in the face.

Star Trek 3 does however have good moments followed by solid action, story and effect as well as taking some risks.

Rating: 3 stars out of 4

Star Trek 4 is considered to be one of the best of the Star Trek movies along with Wrath of Kahn, but while Kahns appeal was its operatic themes and special effects Voyage Homes appeal is in its wit and characters.

The movies plot when described seems like some kind of drunken fan-fiction. While we have a recap of previous movie events the crew of the Enterprise decide to head back to earth and take responsibility for their actions, meanwhile Spock with not all the pieces of his mind back-together goes through a test of his intellect, he can solve all of the most complicated scientific, mathematical and logical problems that the three computers deal out but one question stumps him "how do you feel". This part is fine but latter we see what looks like the monolith from 2001 in cylinder form heading towards earth, and when we learn what it wants it only gets more random.

The Monolith cylinder shuts down all power within a certain radius and when it gets to earth fires beams into the sea that shakes the planet, the entire space federation is useless to stop it. The crew intercept the message to stay away from earth and try to figure out what the Cylinder wants and how to stop it, ready for this. The Cylinder is beaming a signal to the sea that can only understood by humpback whales, that's right of all things humpback whales, this would be fine but humpback whales have been extinct for about two hundred years, so the crew have to attempt time travel, even though they've done it a dozen times before and will do it a dozen more times they make a big deal out of it.

This set-up is truly bizarre and i have no idea how the writers came up with this, but if the characters would have acted like this was a straight up mission then i would have been skeptical but since they say that their situation is ridiculous then its more buy-able.

When they get to the past, which is the present when the film came out but is the past now (one of the main problems with time travel films). They park their ship in San-Francisco park and start to look for the humpback whales, and this is where the real strength of the film takes off.

Star Trek 4 unlike the other typical Star Trek movies has no big space battles with special effects, it relies on the characters entertaining us and its clever wit on the twentieth century. Also Lenard Nimoy returns as director and now that hes adjusted to the art in Search for Spock he can handle the duty of acting and getting behind the camera, even more than before he invokes the best out of his long collaboration with the cast that hes worked with for so long, every one gives a stellar performance, especially Shatner whoever says hes not a good actor watch this movie and tell me the same.

Meanwhile they locate two whales (male and female) named George and Gracy in an aquarium in San-Francisco bay (the phrase fish in a barrel comes to mind) but the crystals that power their ship have burned out but they devise a way to drain the nuclear power from a naval ship and convert it to the crystals.

Star Trek is one of the few series that i can name where the future is positive, there is no racism and no pollution, and technology is used to benefit humanity, and its clever that the crew gets taken to the past and look at how low we were. The clear ecological underlined plot is obvious but not obnoxious, its simple our actions now could doom future generations.

After they have the whales and the crystals are recharged they go back to earth in the twenty-third century, and the whales speak to the Monolith cylinder, it gets what it needs and it drifts off into space and we never learn what it wanted or where it came from, it would probably be very bizarre. After a trial Kirk gets demoted to Captain and the Enterprise has been rebuilt and the crew can have many other adventures. Ow and most importantly Spock feels fine.

Star trek 4 The Voyage Home is my favorite out of the Star Trek movies, its characters drive the plot and enjoyment and Nimoy gets great performances out of his long time fellow actors.

Rating 3 1/2 stars out of 4

Star Trek 6 The Undiscovered Country is the selesai movie with the original cast of the original Star Trek series. I am a trekker that means that I enjoy the mythology of Star trek a lot but am not one of those overenthusiastic nerds that elevates the show to religious status, but the idea of having one selesai journey with the old gang does get me very exited.

The movie starts with a newly appointed Sulu as captain of the Excelsior, while heading back after their first successful mission they encounter a huge energy wave that they deduce came from one of the Klingon moons where they drill for their primary energy source. Later a council is gathered to discuss what this means, it seams with their power source gone and their boarder on patrol the Klingon empire has only fifty years of life left in it before it dies.

Spock devises a plan to make peace with the Klingon empire to avoid a massive war to the bitter end, this would involve dismantling the federations military force. This naturally does not settle with Captain Kirk who after all the years of fighting the Klingon's and especially after the murder of his son does not see anything wrong with just letting them die.

Kirk however obeys his orders and goes to meet and greet the Klingon ambassadors and the diner is awkward but we do meet the Klingon General Chang played by the prestigious Christopher Plummer. Christopher Plummer is one of those golden actors and here he is a Shakespearean quoting war loving Klingon, on of the best Star Trek villains in my opinion.

The main theme of the movie is the fear that comes with the unknown, dealing with the unknown and what could come from something new.

In the last Star Trek movie we had Shatner as director, the two before that we had Lenard Nimoy, this time we are in the hands of Nicholas Meyers who also is the co-writer, wrote Star Trek 4 and he bring the best of two worlds in Star Trek movies. There are usually two ways a Star Trek movie can go a big adventure with special effects or a more grounded one that relies on characters here it is split evenly very nicely, the plot allows for the big space battles as well as talking time to look at the characters, The Undiscovered Country is a script well written

When you say Star Trek everyone has an image that comes into their mind, for some its the enterprise, for others its the Klingon's or the Vulcan hand sign, for me its the original crew behind the helm of the enterprise, Shatner, Nimoy, DeForest etc. Now that crew is getting old and having to move on, given over to another new crew, goodbyes are always hard.

Rating 3 1/2 stars out of 4

Star Trek Into Darkness is the second of the Star Trek movies for this generation. Just like any good sequel it seeks to up the stakes, up the scope and further develop the characters.

The plot of Into Darkness revolves around a mysterious terrorist that is striking at the heart of Starfleet. This new enemy is such a great threat that he could plunge the entire world into darkness (get it).

J.J. Abrams returns as the director and once again he bring master camerawork and control over his leading actors to deliver an great movie experience. Ow and lest we forget the lens flares, that's right there in this movie as well.

OK so lets talk about what everyone else is talking about, the villain. The first Star Trek movie had Nero played by Eric Banner, a reasonable, threatening enough villain for the moment but admittingly forgettable, but this time we have an mysterious man named John Harrison played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes I'm a huge fan of the show Sherlock, so from that you can probably guess than I am also a huge Cumberbatch fan. He is more than just a big tough bad guy, he's interesting and complex and still has his motivations, as-well with  that he's smart, he can play the characters and exploit their weaknesses. Along with all that he has an amazing voice which he utilizes for scary, intimidating monologues. I was reminded of Ben Kinsley and the Mandarin, while he liked to savor every syllable, Cumberbatch is more deliciously pronouncing them.

Along with the villain there are other new characters, like Admiral Marcus played by Peter Weller (that's right Robocop) as the top dog in the Starfleet. Then a new science officer, played by Alice Eve, a pretty blonde that serves and an extra supporting character to the plot.

And of course we get the regular characters. Chris Pine is back as Kirk who now has to deal with being captain of a star-ship and all the responsibilities that comes with it. Spock and Uhura (Zachary Quinto and Zoey Saldana) that now have to deal with being in a relationship and the complications that that brings with them both being in the same working environment and the whole Vulcan thing.

This is the darker of the two movies and you'd probably expect a sequel to go, but when I thought about it I got a little worried. One of the things I liked about the first Star Trek movie was that it was bright with vibrant colors, movies today are getting darker and darker and there's hardly any color too them anymore. Luckily, even though this movie does have darker moments (both emotionally and color-wise) it still keeps its mostly vibrant color scheme which looks great.

The music by Michael Giacchino is again epic and glorious. But its a little more interesting than that, yes its a solid movie score and when it starts is all kinds of awesome, but I always forget about it when it been some time, the movie plays and then the score starts and I think "Ow yeah the new Star Trek score, this is awesome" its a score that buries itself in your subconscious and then surprises you when you hear it again.

For those of you that read my reviews more regularly you know I choose to watch movies in 2D, for this one I watched it in  2D because that's how J.J. Abrams wanted to film it and film it he did. But then the studio demanded that he convert the movie into 3D. I made a point of seeing the movie in 2D because that's how the movie was intended to be seen. The movie is fine in 2D and I saw no points that would have been heightened by the inclusion of 3D.

Star Trek Into Darkness may just be better than the first movie, I would like to talk about more of the plot details but honestly just a little bit of information could hint to people that already know their stuff about Star Trek, so I wont, but as a fan I was very satisfied. This isn't The Dark Knight standard of sequel where you had no idea what they could possibly do next, but it is all pulled off so well that you'll have a great time watching it.

Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 4

If history is any clue The Accountant shouldn't work. This should just be an insultingly bland movie which serves to get the males excited which really dumbs them down to a perverted sense of masculinity. However, this movie works, because of that simple little extra effort which has infused this stale premise into a gripping action movie.

We see a  boy putting a puzzle together, is intensely focused on his task and keeps reciting Solomon Grundy, his parents are at a clinic for different children, this is Christian Wolff, he has autism and the doctor tells them that he needs to be handled with care and avoid intense sensory bombardment. But his father, a decorated war veteran, does not accept this, he knows the world is nothing but intense sensory bombardment, so instead in adapting the environment to Christian he adapted Christian to his environment. So begins his years of pelatihan with all the resources to become one of the most deadly men on the planet.

The boy grows into a man and he is (as the title suggests) an accountant. He is very good at what he does, deducing what is needed for his clients and working the rules to accommodate them. He gets hired by a big robotics company to go through everything to make sure their finances are secure before they go public. It's fifteen years of intense complex finances so they doubt anyone is up to the task. In the company office clerk Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) offers him help but he is most comfortable in solitude. He gets to work processing all the years of intense data and writing it on his whiteboard and when that runs out uses the glass walls of the office.

Affleck is actually rather understated in terms of other performances. Usually, there is an overemphasis on the quirks and behaviors that come with autism (Dustin Hoffman in Rainman for example), to be sure you can tell he is gila but not enough to be an obvious red flag. He can move about in society. He is very blunt and minimal with his obrolan and clearly is repressing great frustration when people talk more than they need to. He's also given his typical behavioral quirk of blowing on his fingers before starting any task.

Kendrick has typically been cast in comedy roles as the cute, spirited one in comedies. She could be out-of-place here in this movie about numbers and bullets. But she serves as a contrast to Wolff's dry attitude and still plays to her strengths though she's used as the fish-out-of-water.

J.K. Simmons plays Raymond King, one of the heads at an intelligent agency who seeks to know the facts about Wolff. Simmons is solid throughout this movie, but within it, he gets a moment which he genuinely moved me, a scene alone which sums up everything about this character in one moment and could earn him an Oscar on that alone.

We also get our villain, played by Jon Bernthal, some kind of hired gun that is wiping out all the witnesses. He is the opposite of Wolff, very expressive and an energetic talker. So you know the two will meet eventually and because they each have their moments it's a confrontation you're actually anticipating it with excitement.

This movie, or these kinds of movies, for example, Taken, The Equalizer and The Gunman I have always found very boring. They are the case of some character that is actually very poorly defined and can mow down roomful after roomful of opponents with little hesitation and the same stern expression. Furthermore, all those previous movies I just mentioned have middle-aged leads so it just seems like we have to sit through these actors working through they're midlife-crisis. But this movie comes with so much more. Firstly we get into his past so we know why he's like this and how he got to be the best at his work, he is most happy when he solves number problems and wear a pocket protector. This isn't interested in typical portrayals of a macho-man.

Typically with these types of movies, there's a big action scene at the end and what this usually means is that the movie has run out of story. But this one, even though it does indeed have an action scene in the last act, there is still a plot. So many movies last an hour and thirty minutes and only have an hour worth of things to say then give up and resort to gunfire, this movie is two hours long and has a whole movies worth of plot. Such a shame that I have to emphasize how good that is.

There are a whole bunch of movies that is similar to this movie as it could have rather easily been another one to fall by the wayside. But it has a story that requires the run-time to tell it, engaging performances, a character that has a back-story. The fact that it's a good movie is enough but knowing that it could have been so stupid makes it a marvel.

Rating: 4 stars out of 4

Pacific Rim was a grand painting of a nerdy dream with a genuine meaningful message underneath it all. It had a vision of giant robots (referred to as Jagers) and monsters (referred to as Kaiju) fighting and had a budget to bring it to life so it looked grander than it had any right to. However, it's message was about the human race coming together in a time of bleakness and seemingly impossible odds and prevailing.

It seemed like a sequel would be a dream but four year's later we have one. Guillermo Del Toro was busy making the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water so he has been replaced in the directing chair with Steven S. DeKnight.

Picking up the baton is Jake Pentecost (John Boyega), the son of Marshal Pentecost from the previous movie. He is content with not being a part of the military or anything official really, merely salvaging parts from the giant robots, partying and making a profit where he can. Until one day he gets wrapped up in the drama of a young girl Amara (Cailee Spaney), now both of them are pulled into the modern Jager program.

For the old characters, they do things I am not a fan of with sequels. They don't ignore them but they certainly are not well utilized. Ones like Ron Perlman's Hannibal Chow and Charlie Hunnam's Riley are either simply mentioned or just forgot about. It does a disservice to the development that has gone into them in the first movie and the investment we initially felt for them because now we learn they go nowhere.

The Jagers are upgraded in this movie. They are more shiny and sleek, where previously they were muscle cars here they sports cars. Also, it seems like the technology has been developed to allow smoother and quicker movements of the limbs, even a few kicks, and rolls. A bit is lost from having this. The true sense of weight and scale seems decreased and seem more like humans in costumes put among-st a playset. I also felt the Jagers were too narrow in the hips to support the weight of these giant things.

As for the Kaiju. We get about 6 new ones for this installment. Each of them has a distinct silhouette, this is good because it makes each one distinguishable from its shape. A few new things are added to them too but to go into greater depth on that would be spoiler's so I'll let you watch the movie.

What is retained are all the little details that give the world character and gravity. For example, there are a lot of buildings that get smashed through the course of these gargantuan battles taking place and you can see every little piece of rubble and dust fall, crash and bounce off surfaces.

The movies passe is unrelenting, or at least non-stop. Something is always being said or an action scene is happening or a chase. That's not necessarily a bad thing like we learned from Mad Max: Fury Road, we can have a movie constantly on the go, we just need to understand what is happening and who the characters are, as the action moves along.

Being that this is a sequel to an action movie it is expected that escalation would happen. It is handled in the most basic of ways, there are more robots and more monsters and they're all bigger. Some other things are added to both the Jagers and the Kaiju which is an adding of the mythology. So there is originality going on.

This is a more shined-up, smashy sequel that does some cool things but a lot of it is simple. There is still plenty of fun to be had and it is never meaningless noise and I still believe the spirit of the first movie has been carried over here. There are so many worse big budget action movies that have been released but at the same time, there are also so many better ones.

Rating: 2 1/2 stars out of 4

The persoalan with any long-lasting franchise is that eventually, all aspects of the characters will have a light shined on them. We have seen so many details revealed about Spider-Man and Batman, their school years, interaction with their parents, childhood memories and traumas. Other movie characters are exempt from this, they come, make their impression and their story ends without having to know every facet of their existence. Take for example the main character of Solo, Han Solo, he made his first appearance in 1977 with the first Star Wars movie and fulfilled an archetype as much as anything but was well defined. He had his journey through the original trilogy and it ended. Now with the rebirth of the saga as well as making it a franchise get ready for all the details to be dished out for you.

Obviously, for the movie we have a younger portrayal of Han Solo, the role is taken over by Alden Ehrenreich. He reasonably looks like someone you could age into Harrison Forde and has his head of hair and strikes the iconic shooting pose but for a lot of it, he's hard to buy. Possibly for years and years, our image of Solo has been purely Harrison Ford and to see another be the character is just too hard to wrap our brains around. He becomes more buyable as the movie progresses, either this was intentional, Ehrenreich got better at the portrayal as they got further into filming or takes a bit of time to adjust to it all.

There are other familiar faces too. First is the large furry companion of Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), he's the loyal muscle that always has your back. Then we meet the suave, smooth-talking Lando Calrissian played by Donald Glover, who is easily one of the best parts to the movie, his obrolan is much like the original character as well as being fun in his own right and he matches Billie Dee Williams performance to a tee and makes it look natural.

Obviously, we get new characters for this journey too. Almost as soon as the movie starts we meet Qi'ra (Emila Clarke), a shrewd beautiful woman from Han's past that is a survivor like him. There's the robber Tobias Beckett (Woody Harelson) who becomes a mentor figure and there's the sassy droid L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), who tenaciously wants equality for all droid kind.

One of the problems with movies like this is that when we see the younger versions of familiar characters we know not only where they go but that they will make it out without a scratch, that really takes the tension out of the scenes. It's the equivalent of watching someone play a video game and they have permanent invincibility, there's no investment because there are no stakes. However with the new characters that we don't see in any of the other movies, we don't know where their story goes or if it ends here, so there's still a bit of tension.

To get back to my opening statement, we were introduced to Han Solo and his large furry friend Chewbacca rather briskly in the original trilogy and there were hints of his past but it didn't really matter because we had the present story to deal with. We could wonder and create our own ideas about the details of their relationship, of how exactly their first encounter went but it is something that is relevant to the individual, now this movie is here to solidify it.

The world of Star Wars is a recognizable one on a purely visual basis. It has incredible technology that is beyond us and that technology is not very well polished, it is a little rusted and has a layer of dust over it. There is plant life that grows in larger and weirder shapes, the clothing is practical but more stylish at the same time and the technology itself has an oldfashioned style in its plating and construction. For this movie, we do indeed see the Millenium Falcon but it is not the one we know, it is newer and shinier than we have seen in previous movies.

This is a very muted movie in terms of its color pallet. In the opening segment we are in a dingy city of nearly all grays, then we go underground and everything has a blue filter to it, then we get out and gray again, they were in a battlefield of gray and mud and then a snowy mountain range of whites and grays. There are a few more colorful environments in the movie but even then the color never really seems to pop. It seems like a strange choice being that it's such a stylized world and known for its use of color.

The movie makes no bones about this being a part of a franchise (one of the most recognizable and profitable of all-time). Through the viewing of the movie, you will hear and recognize things that you can connect back to the original saga. But the movie still works by itself in terms of never stopping to make those references and having other moments be there for legitimate plot reasons.

If you go seeking an energetic Science Fiction Action movie then you will get that and all that comes with it. If you go wanting to see and hear things that are connected to Star Wars because you love it, then this movie is for you. Whichever category you fall into (or even both) you will be satisfied.

Rating: 3 stars out of 4

Another season another MARVEL movie. I remember a time when we might only get one Superhero movie a year (if that), or at least one MARVEL movie a year, now we are at the rate of two or three a year. What the studio has done which allows itself to be maintained is stuck to style and principles but allow the correct amount of diversity and identity among its many ongoing characters. This is a genre movie like any other, we already understand the basic flow of the narrative, we need just enough surprise, variation and high level of competence to execute the project so it is enjoyable and not stagnant.

The plot of this movie is based on events that are carried over from the previous as well as a little bit of the events of Captain America: Civil War. The original Ant-Man Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and daughter Hope Pym (Evangeline Lilly) are seeking to rescue Janet Pym (Michelle Pfeiffer) who's been trapped in the Quantum Realm for years. However, there is a gear in the works because Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), the new Ant-Man is under house arrest.

The humor is the element that is most on-point in this movie. Not since the first Guardians of The Galaxy have I laughed so hard and consistently during a MARVEL movie. Yes, the movies have all had a generous serving of humor and none of them have been unfunny but this one especially tickled me. One particular joke about truth serum stands out.

As the title would imply in this movie is the inclusion of the character The Wasp. She is Hope Pym, she has the same shrinking powers as Ant-Man but comes with wings that greatly help in maneuvering and stingers, gauntlets that shoot paralyzing blasts and are able to expand and shrink objects they hit. She is pretty much superior to Ant-Man, but a job is always easier accomplished with more than one person so he's along for the ride too.

Causing other problems for the heroes this time is a mysterious specter that is named Ghost. They are named so because they have the mysterious ability to phase through solid matter i.e. walls, cars etc. They wear a white costume with small red, glowing eyes, so they are mysterious and threatening and once we learn they're the motivation they also become sympathetic. Ghost isn't as deliciously overpowered as Hella from Thor Ragnorok, or tragic and threatening as Killmonger in Black Panther, but they are a solid character and obstacle for our heroes.

A few ties these movies have taken older actors and for the purposes of flashbacks reverse aged them. They have been working on this technique within a few movies and here we get to see it reach the pinnacle of perfection. We see Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Laurence Fishburn look how they did twenty years ago with almost no sign a artificial tampering. Along with that are seeing fully grown adults be shrunk to three feet tall, a regular sized human next to a colossal sized human and even when they are shrunk down huge fat dust particles float around them. There's also the right mixture of practical-camera effects and giant props. 

With the introduction of the growing, it adds another element to the action sequences. The shrinking was also a rich element, two cars can be racing and when you shrink you can go underneath the other vehicle, now mundane objects and be thrown which become obstacles for others to traverse or even straight up block them. Also when the heroes grow the seemingly large threat is now an annoyance. Along with this Scott's new suit was a rush job so it doesn't work perfectly. All this abides with the "But and Therefore" mentality towards narrative and action mentality.

One of the key distinguishing elements about this movie is what I liked so much about the first Ant-Man, the smaller scale. Infinity War was such a massive project, with some genuinely dire tones that have a movie that takes place within one city, that is not at risk of being blown up and some funny humor comes as a nice change of passe.

Payton Reed has stepped into this world and characters and made it his. This is the playful, toy mentality chunk of the MARVEL cinematic universe. It is slick, inventive, colorful and fun!

Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 4