The fact that Travolta's
evil character seems unmotivated by anything but his macho rivalry with Slater is just about the only vestige of Woo's usual themes.
Not exact matches
His
characters always
seem to come to life and often are making choices about good and
evil.
For, if there is no God, then one faces the problem of goodness, beauty, truth, all that is lovely in music and art, all that is admirable in
character, and that problem of good
seems to me far more important and more difficult to solve than the problem of
evil.
Even though they
seem friendly, Red knows something is up and the eventually turn on the town, devising an
evil plan that will eventually bring out the full title of the film in all of the
characters.
It
seems that director Peter Stebbings has some archenemies of his own, namely direction,
character development, and narrative arc, and sadly the forces of
evil have overcame this director.
We do get a few newer
characters such as Thranduil (Lee Pace), the elf king and father of Legolas, but he is really just a big cliche in terms of the «villain that you know you can't trust and has way too much power and
seems evil just for the sake of being
evil,» But again, he doesn't get a whole lot of focus, and to be honest, how he is portrayed is not very interesting, the
character has this interesting backstory that is somewhat brushed over, and again, he doesn't get a whole lot of screen time.
Both Kingsley and Hopkins are veterans at playing villainous
characters,
evil, mendacious men who
seem to take pleasure in making the audience squirm with their nastiness.
Together with a wide cast of
characters, they investigate many cases, including the activities of an
evil organisation that
seem connected with Tim's father's disappearance.
So what begins as a lark — with the vast assortment of comic book
characters trotting out their costumes; middle - aged Bruce Banner humorously being so out of practice that he can no longer transform himself into the Hulk; Tony Stark bantering once again with Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts; Holland's Peter Parker looking so childish even he
seems to wonder what he's doing in this company; Dave Bautista stealing every scene he's in; Scarlett Johansson and Don Cheadle being given absolutely nothing fresh or original to do; Evans trying to leave his Captain America persona behind him — transforms into something genuinely threatening and grim, something, in fact, that has to be taken seriously: the prospect that
evil can win.
The
characters are flat, and the actors playing them
seem as befuddled as the viewer about the ambiguous shades of good and
evil from one scene to the next.
This movie still looks appropriately silly, but it's nice to see that there
seems to be a bit of a deeper story at play involving Dave Franco «s lead
character and his
evil father, played by Justin Theroux.
A sociopath who could have long conversations with Hannibal Lecter and Heath Ledger's Joker (with a sexual ambiguity that would make him
seem like an old - fashioned
evil - queen
character, if the script didn't let Craig defuse that possibility with one line), he's a terrifying opponent in a series that's offered up more than a few stock madmen.
I must say that this was one of the worst movies I've ever watched, «
Evil Dead» was better than this mound of shit... Gareth Edwards should be banned from directing hence forth, and now I hear he's directing the new Star Wars spin - off... I'm not one to talk down to others but let's be honest, you have to be retarded to like this movie... It made absolutely no sense, the script (the most important piece to any movie) was terrible, the plot was stupid, the acting was horrible and it
seemed that the actors who were chosen were acting for a different movie all together... Where was the sense of urgency, I mean there were 300 foot tall behemoths walking through buildings and all you could show us was who was going ride with the little boy on the school bus... Maybe if all the main
characters died and they just let Godzilla do his thing from there on out an eyebrow could've been raised but unfortunately, there isn't one good thing to say about this movie... I'm shocked the WB handed over one their biggest names to Legendary Pictures... Let's not forget what they've done with Superman Returns... This is shameful...
We have seen him play
evil characters before, so it
seems a bit like he is phoning it in at times here.
Cumberbatch is able to be a generic
evil genius and the true back story of this
character doesn't
seem to really be necessary.
Wein's
characters are multi-faceted and realistic: they all have their weaknesses and faults; even the
evil ones possess a human side; many are not quite what they first
seem.
Together with a wide cast of
characters, they investigate many cases, including the activities of an
evil organisation that
seem connected with Tim's father's disappearance.
Characters fail to react to events as one would expect, nobody
seems to ever make decisions which make much sense and motivations are vague at best, especially in the case of the Ice Lords, who are seemingly
evil because fuck it, that's why!.
It's unusual in a game like this a name's lead
character to be given this much personality of his own, but he's a decidedly witty fellow back up by some pretty good voice acting, although it does have to be said that for someone tasked with the saving of the world by way of defeating an ancient
evil he doesn't really
seem in that much of a rush to get anything done.
Some «
evil» actions are just too extreme that it
seems to be a disconnect from Delsin's
character.
Sebastian was the lead
character from the first
Evil Within and it
seems he doesn't have much luck being shoved into a familiar situation once again.
If you thought Resident
Evil 5 had great
character interactions, Alan Wake will
seem awesome.
All the
characters seem pretty lifeless when they talk, especially Shadow, who has that ominously dark,
evil dialogue, but fails to back it up with an ominously dark,
evil voice.
First of all, it
seems that there will be a returning
character in «Resident
Evil 7: Biohazard.»
I doubt it'd be controversial for me to say Resident
Evil 7 is a much stronger game, narratively speaking, than the first Resident
Evil, even if it didn't introduce any
characters that
seem worthy of hanging anywhere near the likes of Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Claire Redfield, or Barry Burton.
It's telling that among the main
characters, the ruthlessly
evil Strickland is the only one who
seems to be thinking about the importance of the future — specifically, a future where his two - kids - and - a-house-in-the-suburbs version of America is the culturally dominant idea, and filthy, inexplicable things like Eliza's fish - friend have been wiped out.