Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 21, 2021 4:41:34 GMT
Not really a fan of it. The action is great, but almost every character is annoying and the story ends up being more frustrating than anything else imo.
I'd probably give it a 5/10.
8/10 for me.
Not sure what you mean by the story being frustrating, but you don't have to explain your reason to me.
The movie is a comedy the way I see it and part of why it works so well as a comedy I think is actually the reason you dislike it.
Arnold is a douchebag in the movie who treats his family as if they are an inconvenience to him almost and this causes his goofy bored wife to find something elsewhere. The movie is about them becoming closer and the last act is a hilarious ending, where they are now 2 agents who work together.
The story just feels like it's building to something greater but instead chooses to fall to the least interesting thing happening in the world at the time - the couple's story. Not that it's an inherently bad idea, but (again) I find almost every character except Arnie's to be annoying, so naturally the development scenes won't land for me.
It's like if a James Bond movie kept cutting away from/cutting back on the action scenes to focus on the story of 007 and some goofy Bond girl instead of getting to the inevitable big/ambitious stuff.
To be fair, I've never been a fan of Cameron's writing of characters. You could practically copy/paste every one of my reviews for his movies with this:
"Action = great; characters = annoying"