Mafince 000

After watching the trailers for months, I was genuinely disappointed about this film overall. Everything about it felt poorly scripted and under developed. Too many scenes seemed like a lot of fluff just to get to the action sequences. For example, the entire family mounts a rescue mission to save the superhero Jaime, who’s been captured by the leader of Kord Industries and her goon henchmen. To do so they pilot an aircraft, none have ever seen, and while on board the aircraft, lay hands on weapons, none are familiar with (but somehow are I’m mediately adept at). That is except for granny, who chooses the largest weapon, (a Gatling style gun) and then suddenly turns into Rambo for the last 30 minutes of the film. The film also has far too many contradictions. As the film begins, We find that Jaime‘s family is about to lose their home, and his father has already lost his business. But an hour into the film, we find out that the crazy uncle (played by George Lopez) is some sort of tech genius who has built his own jamming system, capable of thwarting the security systems of an entire billion dollar tech company housed in a corporate skyscraper. If he’s truly the tech genius he portrays, why doesn’t he have a job that can pay the family mortgage? The other major contradiction is the scarab Super suit. The suit and the entity contained there in, spends the first half of the film attempting to kill every enemy that Jaime has contact with. Yet at the end, is the one thing that prevents him from killing the first person Jaime decides truly deserves it. There are also too many scenes borrowed from the MCU universe. The scarab attaches to the host by binding with the nervous system similar to Doc Ock in Spider-Man. The OMAC suit developed by Kord industries is nearly identical to the Iron Man suit right down to the mini rockets it fires and the way it fires them. From mini launcher panels that spring up from the shoulders. Even a simple shot of Kord Industries corporate tower looks remarkably similar to Stark tower minus the landing pad Tony uses to land.