After years of production delays, Netflix and Skydance are finally expected to be released Old Defender 2Charlize Theron-led sequel Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s image comic series. Directed by Victoria Mahoney, the sequel reunites its immortal mercenaries and discovers another global mission. Unfortunately, this time, their biggest threat is not their new immortal big badass and long-awaited hate match. This is the narrative inertia of the sequel, crushed under the weight of placing a cart in front of a horse to create a franchise.
A few years after the first movie incident, Old Defender 2 Andy (Theron) was found to be estimated with newly discovered mortality. Along with Kiki Layne, Joe (Marwan Kenzari), Nicky (Luca Marinelli) and James Copley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Andy’s team is now facing a huge Discord threat, the shadow character of Uma Thurman, played by Uma Thurman, who claims to be the first immortal man in the world. Waving the knowledge that reveals its eternal existence is intended to tear down everything Andy and her comrades fight to preserve humanity. To stop her, the team turned to an old gay comrade Toa (Henry Golding), hoping that his insights into their immortal myth will have the key to ending the discord.
Understandably, the film is a blockbuster showdown between Theron and Thurman, a battle between two legendary action heroines in Hollywood that, like a pop culture fan novel, reads like lifelike. However, their showdown, while repairable, ended up feeling like a trump card in terms of wonder and emotional weight. The real major event is the long-awaited party between Andy and Quynh (Veronica Ngô), her once intuitive comrade who spent centuries beside an iron girl on the bottom of the sea and found herself in line with Discord. When Andy brings sparks with the disharmonious confrontation, it’s her alignment with Quynh’s violent anger and unresolved emotional hurt, which inspires the film’s most compelling tensions – in the form of five centuries in production.
Old Defender 2This time the action sequence (probably the franchise phone card) is strangely limp. Although the film’s motivation took some creative performances in its early performances, it quickly faded away, giving way to jittered editing and disconnected camera work, making their influence immortalized symbolic battles. The critically discerning showdown between Theron and Thurman, and the emotional conflict between the Nile and Quynh, bear the brunt of it. Instead of gradually becoming an operatic wonder, these battles fail in the missteps of continuity, feeling like the competition left behind in Editing Bay. The whole final scene of the film, rather than conveying catharsis, plays like a placeholder as anything that might happen next – it’s an unfinished bridge to a sequel that is still a tone rather than a promise.
Among them lies Old Defender 2The biggest flaw: It is spread all over the side tracks in the hypothetical chapter three to complete the tracks actually told. Instead of providing a fully realized, emotionally satisfying sequel, the film, like a length-length prologue, constantly shows the importance of its meditation without the need to make the necessary basis to make money. Sub-pictures, such as the friction between Nicky and Joe, or the reintroduction of the expelled team member Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), have less functionality than artificially inflated meaningful dramas, emphasize the film’s uneven narrative urgency.
Even the most promising emotional arc of the film’s annoying party with Andy and Quynh, which makes hundreds of years of silence, betrayal and unresolved desires slam dunk like the well-known layup slam bang of the sequel, like a stupid throw, like a technically free throw, being tortured by those tempting films of rich Lore dripping and aggressive prep. It could have been a tense, character-driven sequel, but dissolved on a middle bridge to the trilogy, which, while the film is so proud of its cliffs, won the next step without laughingly.
Wandering afterwards Old Defender 2 The fragments of stronger ideas – the horror films of the immortal fight, the creative flash of choreography and the themes of death, gui and redemption, they are faintly faint before they are not focused. The film seems too eager to complete the thought and then spinning to unravel and undo the climax of the previous film, all in service of building a grander narrative that never really comes true in its speech. Long before the credits rolled, the film wasn’t intended to find any solution in the final scene, but a rough sketch of what the film was longing for was hidden in the studio director’s intervention or worse yet, a script that failed to rise.
Desire to pave the way for what will happen next Old Defender 2 Forgot to finish its performance, letting fans parse the micro expression, fill the story gap with their heads, and wonder if the real climax is lost in editing or outsourcing to fix the fantasy novel.
Old Defender 2 aired on Netflix on July 2.
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