Lord of the Rings Meets Aliens
I enjoyed the movie--it was fantasy, had some good one-liners, and kept my attention.
shareWas it the explosions and music that kept your attention? Because my brain was numb after the first hour. It was like being in a coma and seeing lots of colors and hearing lots of sounds but bored to death.
And the "script" is loaded with every damn cliché of the genre. It's like a compilation from hell.
Mercenary turns Hero. Check.
Sarcastic but unwaveringly loyal sidekick. Check.
Kickass woman but just not too kickass please, falling for the hero. Check.
Humongous army of all-powerful undefeated monsters... all depending on that one creature for convenient killing at the end. Check (no seriously, between Independence Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Falling Skies etc etc, it's like the Deus Ex Machina Special these days)
If you think it has anything to do with Lord of the Rings, you must have fallen asleep during LOTR.
"Mercenary turns Hero. Check."
Give you that one.
"Sarcastic but unwaveringly loyal sidekick. Check."
Uncheck that one. He left him to die, or take the rap for the missing powder. I'd call that neither unwavering NOR loyal.
"Kickass woman but just not too kickass please, falling for the hero. Check."
Uncheck that one as well. She didn't fall for him. She wouldn't. Not in a movie with a Chinese director, and made with Chinese money. The don't call us "Wai gue" for nothing. Respect? Yes. Falling for him? Not in any dimension that exists. And it was HER that killed the queen, which makes her THE kickass, not him
So it seem you're at 50%, so it's not the compilation you seem to think it is. Perhaps it was your misconceptions that ruined it for you?
..Joe