Parker Shahsavar

I don’t want to take any credit away from all the people involved in making this movie happen. They all did an incredible job to deliver the stunning movie. My only issue was the plot: it felt like nothing but “necessary” information cramped into 3 hours to setup for a third movie. My biggest issue was that it was depressing. basically from the moment the “sky people” were reintroduced, we were immediately shown how great of a threat they are. This felt very overstated as they effortlessly tore through everything each time they made an appearance. What this did for me was take away from all the sub plots. Any happy moments between the main characters was vastly overshadowed by the ticking time bomb that was the inevitable run-in with the sky people. For quite a long time I found myself in a state of “I get it, there’s no way the avatar can win. So what’s the surprise, what will help turn things around?” and when the climax occurred, they only won because the sky people were in unfamiliar ground with limited resources. Why did they bother showing the mass “industrialization” and creation of their base if they only use one tenth of their resources in the climax? To setup for a third movie. Which brings me to my conclusion. The movie felt like an unnecessary bridge between the first and third movie. In the first Avatar, the introduction of the avatar world was spot on. There was just enough detail without it dragging on or leaving any confusion. In the second movie that approach was thrown out out the door. The entire movie ended up as a setup for the theme, setting, and the relationship between the main characters. Sure, once the third movie comes we’ll know very well about the love-hate relationship between Tarzan and the Villain, but was wasting a whole movie on building characters worth it? No. It wasn’t.

1 star for sure, most “avenger” main characters have gotten their second or third movies and I was really excited to see my favorite hero finally get his. Here is my “spoilerless” review: After seeing Dr. Strange go head to head with Thanos in infinity war, I was really to see what wicked things he’d cast up in a movie dedicated to him and I will challenge anyone who disagrees that Marvel really under-delivered on this movie. He did not get a whole lot of screen time and was vastly overshadowed by other characters at times. It definitely felt like there was less focus into showing Strange as an experienced wizard and more into setting the stage for future Marvel movies. All in all, their budget seemed to be split up incorrectly. There were a few surprise appearances but nothing to make up for the poor-composed plot and the clunky CGI.

Meh, few hours of playing and I was very disappointed. It probably has a great story but the mechanics are the exact same as Odyssey and that kills it for me. It feels like the game was rushed and rebranded; They basically rode off the back of an already made game. There are little improvements I can’t deny that but it feels like I’m repaying for the same thing, just with a different story. Maybe I would’ve liked it if I hadn’t played other AC games before but they just didn’t surpass my expectations based on previous games :/ -Walk, run, jump, fall and all of those animations are pretty much the same (like when he shakes his hands upon running out of water) -Horse mechanics are the same -Sailing is the same -the in-game cutscenes are absolutely the same -instead of raiding forts and burning war supplies, you now raid villages and do practically the same stuff -and combat is obviously the same