Luke Marsden

Like the original Gladiator but for simple people. Predictable and uninspired plot, terrible writing, terrible acting, painful misguided attempts to be something deep and thoughtful. It lacks everything that made the original what it was and tries to cover up it's own shortcomings with over the top action sequences, worn out plot tropes, epic visuals, and hit and miss special effects. It is everything wrong with modern film making, just 2 hour long tic tok content made for an uninformed and I guess easily pleased audience.

In a galaxy far far away... it is a period of culture war where Star Wars has gone to die. I get wanting to be inclusive and all but when it reaches this point it stops being entertainment and just becomes blatant propaganda. You have to hand it to Disney they really know their target audience... and are determined to alienate them at all costs. Aside from the constant political messaging which destroys almost everything that modern Disney touches it is simply poorly written and poorly acted. The most interesting character (and best actor) dies in the first few mins, the main character survives a violent crash (from orbit) without a scratch, that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the political message vehicle... I mean show. Can we just go back to making actual Star Wars quality focused content now?

Wow the only surprising thing about this film is how so many good actors agreed to be in it after reading the script. What is with so many positive reviews, what am I missing? Couldn't even finish it, anyone who scored this more than a 1 or 2 stars and actually went as far as complimenting things such as the plot and characters, should have to legally wear a helmet.

Spoilers. The best way I can describe this movie is it is a missed opportunity. It started off strong with an interesting WW2 era 'there is something on the wing' supernatural premise. The introduction of the characters and mystery package created intrigue and the opportunity to develop a solid story. The main character getting locked in the belly turret to start off the action was well done. It all went down hill from there. Researching the movie the original writer was #me too'd out of the production, they obviously decided to completely over compensate and get the first feminist film student they could find to rewrite the script and finish the job. The rest of the film is a nonsensical mess. The mystery package offered a great opportunity to explain and tie the plot together i.e. the supernatural feel of the movie, the presence of the main character on the flight and her skillset, the attack of enemy planes further down south than they had seen them before, and of course the gremlin who just shows up for no reason in particular. I mean the real historical occult connections of WW2 could have been used. But no, they went for an unrelated domestic violence and baby tangent, and started painfully pushing the feminist propaganda at every opportunity. The main character was a strong and interesting female lead as it was without the cringe worthy final scenes. For example the unrelated gremlin, who for some reason really really wants that unrelated baby, is finally killed by the main character, alone with her bare hands of course, as the terrified militarily trained male characters are ordered to hold the baby and stay out of the way. She then proceeds to breastfeed in front of some burning pin-up girl plane art... we get it. The bones of a good movie were there, it was just lost in the political agenda constantly being rammed down your throat.