It's African heritage doesn't feel authentic, there was potential for something one and only truly original about these particular characters place in the world but for the most part they shy away from anything too culturally relevant unless Michael B. Jordan needs a couple of lines to justify whatever he's currently doing.
Andy Serkis plays another bad guy from a Gerald Scarfe drawing rather than the same movie. There's an action scene that's geared towards a car chase, all of the foreshadowed tech is relevant to chasing cars, other skills are adapted for use with moving cars, Chadwick Boseman's whole thing in another movie was acrobatically chasing down cars. Ten minutes later an important car turns a corner in another action scene and they just let it go. Two thirds of the movie are about setting up potentially interesting storylines and then just letting them go.
Well here he is, Daniel Kaluuya with a weird smirk that can only suggest he's read the rest of the script. Letitia Wright is great but doesn't even get the service of a storyline that suggests she was being held back. Martin Freeman keeps speaking in a funny voice. When a human or suit turns into CGI and starts moving elastically across the screen it immediately pulls me out of the action.
Will there be a single viewer, child or scholar who believes
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the outcome of the second waterfall scene
