Forever a Bookdragon

Solid kids movie, a little violent for little little ones but I throughly enjoyed myself.

I personally found the fight sequences -which made up almost the entirety of the movie- to be lacking in any dynamic action and more just one super human main character mindlessly -with shaking fists- shooting or bludgeoning grunt after grunt. And I say that as a general fan of action packed, high paced and explosion filled movies. I thought the pacing with a little slow and the storyline was lackluster, and since the runtime was so long the monotonous sound of gunshots and grunting bordered on mind numbing versus engaging and thrilling. The various settings in which the surplus of fights scenes occurred were -in my opinion- awkward and only succeeded in distracting me from the action by watching the extras in the background strangely dance or seem to not know what they were meant to be doing. I enjoyed the last three movies as a franchaise -I've watched them multiple times- and was very much looking forward to this fourth installment. All in all, I am disappointed that this turned out to be a 'fine' movie when I expected more.

I would give this a 2.5 out of 5. I think the best word to describe the movie would be 'fine'. The dialogue felt weird or disjointed most of the time and the 'home baked' and 'human' dynamic that I felt Scott Lang had in the previous movies was completely nonexistent which was a disappointment for me personally. (His friend group were not in the film at all and there was very little interaction between the main family since they were split up) The effects were vibrant and visually stunning as usual but the story, characters, and comedy as a whole just weren't there for me.