This time round his alter - ego Wade Wilson finds himself on the cusp of parenthood, only to have the chance tragically wrenched away during the film's unexpected opening scenes (a surprise neatly reflected in the James Bond - style titles sequence featuring credits such as: «Written By:
the real villains of this film» and «Starring: someone who clearly doesn't like sharing the limelight»).
The real villain of the film is Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), a mysterious and menacing figure.
Not exact matches
The
film has its fair share
of cartoonish
villains and there are practically no surprises, but on the whole,
Real Steel is good family fun and is never caught on the back foot.
The
film deals with very
real (and socially relevant) issues
of gun violence in the United States, but more often than not skirts around its questionable morals in order to transport Willis back to the 1980s with catchy one - liners as he takes down the next faceless
villain.
This
film needed to be about 45 minutes shorter and could have used a
real villain instead
of the Snidely Whiplash bad guy seen here.
Shannon is a cruel and effective
villain, the
real monster
of the
film no doubt but one motivated by unsympathetic superiors and caged sexual deviance.
Even with these elements though, the
film never takes a
real advantage
of any
of them, especially not the main
villain.
But no space was smaller and more dangerous than the green room
of Green Room, whose pressure - cooker scenario has provided 2016 with its most suffocating, white - knuckle thrills — complicated, granted, by the death
of leading man Anton Yelchin and the uncomfortable parallels between the
film's hatemongering
villains and the
real ones bellowing at rallies across the country.
Though, the fact that the
film isn't entirely without obvious merit confuses things even further: Krauss is wryly brilliant as Krauss and delivers the
film's biggest laugh with his Herzog - ian reasons for using a wheelchair; Gael Garcia Bernal has a great time as a lecherous member
of Laura's delegation, spinning his suitcase with the sneering verve
of a cartoon
villain who twirls his mustache and gleefully acts smarmy before being felled by his own beleaguered bowels; Herzog's shots
of Diablo Blanco, portrayed by Bolivia's
real - life Uyuni salt flats, are among the most stunning in any
film released this year; Shannon has fun in the impromptu photo shoot that takes place toward the end
of the
film; and as expected, there's a fascinating push and pull in the battle between human and nature at the heart
of the
film's central premise.
The brothers Russo sat down with Screen Rant ahead
of the
film's debut to talk about the
film's inspiration, the very
real stakes
of having a
villain like Thanos come to collect and possible future MCU plans!
Running the length
of about seven Batman: The Animated Series episodes, Batman V Superman choppily races through plot, as the
film works in a CIA coverup, a discovered lump
of Kryptonite, a downed UFO, the body
of Michael Shannon's slain General Zod, glib echoes
of real - world terrorism, and a second
villain whose identity shouldn't be disclosed.
The big surprise is Keanu Reeves, a
real embarrassment as a
villain in the atrocious - as - a-whole The Watcher, in the role
of this
film's main baddie, hot - tempered redneck Donnie Barksdale (a part that would have been a perfect fit for one
of The Gift's writers, Billy Bob Thornton).
The
film's initial idea makes time the
real villain — just like how money is the root
of all evil in the
real world — but we need to make the big bad corporations and the timekeepers bad guys, and bad ones at that, as well.
Furthermore, it's willing to introduce
real friction between the team members and a
villain with understandable motivations, neither
of which was true about the
film.