Michael's Movie Grade: C+
Review: A fun action movie, even if it is not much more.
The special effects are amazing, and help the movie a lot. One reason this helps is the action scenes can be long and unrelenting. This is especially true of the beginning. The film takes a while to slow down and let you care about the story. Thankfully for someone like me, (Though obviously not for others) while there is a lot of violence, there is tastefully not much gore, and I am one that is glad this was toned down to PG-13.
The story, while nothing we haven't seen before is not that bad. The characters while not reaching the emotional strength, the film-makers were pulling for, are quite likable, and you do actually want to see things work out well. Although the story is nothing particularly original, none of the cliches feel particularly annoying as they do in plenty of bad action films.
The acting is top notch, and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfect as an emotionless robot (I know shocking). Emilia Clarke, and Jai Courtney, particularly, bring much needed likability to their characters.
Overall a fun action film, and if you don't expect much more you will enjoy this.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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