by Gwangi » Tue May 30, 2017 11:27 am
i managed to see it again this past weekend at our local dollar theater, and I must say that I enjoyed it even more. The first time, I was "cautiously optimistic", but then it greatly exceeded my expectations. Since I knew what was going to happen this time around, I just sat there and thoroughly enjoyed the ride! I originally gave it *** stars out of four the last time around. I am now giving it ***1/2 . The key word was fun!
And as I stated before, the characters for this type of narrative were fine. All of this crap that they were "not fully developed" was not really necessary for the plot. We got the basics for Packard, Conrad, Mason Weaver, Bill Randa and even Hank Marlow and did not need any unnecessary backstories (especially for Marlow, since his plight was already laid out in the beginning and we did not need to come back to it over and over). Maybe only Toby Kebbell's character, could we have have known a little bit more, and perhaps Tian Jing's San could have been more fleshed out more, but that really did not do any harm to the story.