The only way to make this film work would be to have us actually
care about the characters under attack, but outside of showing that there is a spat happening between the husband and wife characters, there's almost no development whatsoever before all hell breaks loose in the town.
Not exact matches
In fact, it tacitly accepts the more absurd elements of its convoluted fictional universe, instead laboring
under the delusion that we
care enough
about the
characters that we want to see what happens to them after the events of the first movie.
Jon Favreau's Iron Man wrestles with those responsibilities as well as a relatively unique conundrum: How do you make audiences
care about a
character whose face is hidden
under a metallic scowl?
Frankly, the film owes a lot to the likes of the Lord of the Rings films, where
character is the heart of the story,
under the remarkable and bombastic events that occur around the individuals we're made to
care about in the film.
films, where
character is the heart of the story,
under the remarkable and bombastic events that occur around the individuals we're made to
care about in the film.
From the cold and calculating would - be philanderer of a main
character, a man who has worked his entire life to keep his wife and children at arm's length due to the fact that they are women, to the spoiled adult children of this stereotypical New England family of privilege whose mistakes get swept
under the rug of propriety, there isn't a single person in this story that I would hold a door open for, let alone
care about.