It's amusing to see the chaos of a wedding weekend in motion, but the script bites off more than it can chew, indulging nearly every actor with
some form of subplot that takes attention away from the saga of Jason and Sabrina.
Not exact matches
Even in comparison to just the past few seasons it was not the best played match, nor the most exciting, the
subplots were minimal for a game
of this magnitude (Barca and Messi in good
form, Real and Ronaldo struggling), and it was absent the explosive flashpoints
of the Mourinho era.
The talent speaks many a metaphor between Alexander and Achilles and Hercules, along with Achilles and his lover, Patroclus (AN: a
subplot which was amended in this year's other sword and sandals epic, Troy, making the lovers «cousins» instead), represented in Alexander in the
form of Hephaistion (Leto), Alexander's most trusted friend (lover?).
And soon enough we're back to the explosions, chases, battle sequences, kickin» - ass montages, and pointless romantic
subplots that we've come to expect from these movies, the latter
of which comes in the
form of Phillips's right - hand woman, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
Una preserves that central setting, but it also nervously, detrimentally abandons it at every opportunity, breaking up the long -
form conversation with flashbacks to the pair's illegal encounters (some staged through the increasingly cliché drop - the - soundtrack - out subliminal blips), relocations throughout the building (and, eventually, outside
of it), and a
subplot involving layoffs at Ray's job and a co-worker (Riz Ahmed) who gets wedged between the two.
Rock and King manage to generate some charm together, but their romance is often lost amid easy fish - out -
of - body jokes (there is not only one, but two, scenes
of Lance bumping to rap music, forgetting he's in the
form of a portly old white man) and boring
subplots, in particular one revolving around Wellington's scheming wife (Jennifer Saunders) and her lover (Greg Germann), who also happens to be Wellington's right - hand man.