He is shown arriving in Themyscira and stealing the Amazon's Mother Box, in addition to being glimpsed in
a number of fight scenes.
Not exact matches
Wright: The
fight scenes I felt should feel like musical
numbers when the emotion is too strong and people run into songs to tell the next part
of the story.
However, repetition sets in and the escalation
of set pieces reaches some sort
of a peak here: there are good - to - great action, chase and
fight scenes (Bryan Singer's X-Men films still have an edge on depicting superpowers) but there's also a limit to the
number of times people can be kicked through walls before the scraps start to feel samey.
Indeed, in the latter picture, there are a
number of scenes showing adults bickering and
fighting like 6th graders whilst the pre-teens look on in disbelief, their mature eyes downcast and lathered in shame.
The
scenes of visual excitement in the film (the bar entrances
of Charlie and then Johnny Boy, the pool
fight, Charlie's drunk
scene, Johnny Boy's run through the city) make heavy use
of non-diegetic music and are similar to Hollywood musical song and dance
numbers.
Granted, the balancing act doesn't always go as planned, and there are certainly some tonal issues in a
number of scenes — ahem, the love story that's soldered in; the ridiculous gun
fight — but it's a sour character study that's always held at arm's length, all while you're duck - taped to a chair wondering what's going on.
But it lacks even the self - aware zaniness
of those shows, and the shaky - cam
fight scenes feel like they were edited by a random
number generator.
Seriousness apart, though, there's undeniable entertainment value in a
number of scenes in which the magnificent Terence Stamp, as Yuri's grandfather, displays his Cossack -
fighting skills.
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