Evan Westermann

A labour of love, a musical marvel, a technical triumph. Goonya Fighter is the game you wish Smash Bros was.The game you longed for when picking up Street Fighter. The pinnacle that Mortal Kombat just couldn't quite reach.

PLEASE do not listen to these people giving it 5-star reviews. They must’ve gone into this film with great expectations (as did I) and incredibly disappointed (as was I) but can’t bring themselves to admit it. It’s almost laughable reading some of these five star reviews saying if you didn’t think it was a masterpiece you don’t have taste and you just didn’t “get it”. Which is snobbish, elitist, and straight up dishonest. I’ve read The Green Knight, the original poem. This film is a mockery to that story. “Subverting expectations” really has become the new lame excuse when a film just falls on its face, as if it was intentionally supposed to be as dull as watching paint dry. Look if the film wanted to be that, then by all means. But when you intentionally cobble together theatrical trailers from every halfway interesting piece of action in the movie, you’re intentionally trying to draw in moviegoers to see something that your film is not. Seriously, there’s no fighting. There’s hardly any action. There are many, many, many scenes of walking and people staring just a little too long at each other. I think the most disappointing thing about this film is that the “critics” on Rotten Tomatoes currently have it sitting at a 92%, and since Rotten Tomatoes advertises their critic score rather than their actual audience score, many more people will be tricked into seeing this 2 hour slog where the pacing is slow and tedious and the entire film is self-indulgent to the point of disbelief. Maybe the most boring film I’ve seen in years, and the trailer deceivingly portrays it as an actual action/adventure movie. It’s a tongue-in-cheek indie film that was given far too large a budget.