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On par with Law Abiding Citizen [SPOILERS]

posted 5 years ago by Nando (18)
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Hello, I'm going to write a few lines about how I feel about this movie, and yes, my English s*cks, sorry about that.

This movie is on par with Law Abiding Citizen. I think both are almost masterpieces, but these are the two movies that bothers me the most. In LAC we have a guy who knows everything, who is a total genius, there's one scene that specifically highlights some things like:

"Look, spies are a dime a dozen. I'm a spy, he's a brain."
"this guy can hear and see everything that you're doing."
"so we can't stop him? Walk into his cell, and put a bullet in his head. Aside from that, no, you can't stop him. "

and after all this crap, in the last scene the "smart guy" is surprised like an idiot and we all know how it ends.

Something similar happens here

"The readings are off the chart. Over 20,000. Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high. No Jedi has."
"It's possible he was conceived by the midi-chlorians"... (wtf)
"the one who will bring balance to the Force"

and so on. Does anyone understand the dimension of this? Maybe he doesn't even have a father!

So we reached the final epic battle between him "The Chosen One" and Obi-Wan Kenobi. And it completely contradicts everything that the movies has been established before. Obi Wan dominates the fight from start to finish so indisputably, so easy, that he even have enough time to talk to Anakin several times. He doesn't even look tired at all.

So why on earth do these movies keep doing false claims beforehand? Another movie comes to mind, Troy, the fight between Achilles vs Hector, remember? They claim that Achilles is the best of them all, and this fight shows exactly that. Achilles destroys Hector physically, emotionally, even mentally until the end.

The only logical way in which this movie would had made more sense, is that Anakin completely dominated the fight, but for some strange reason, a very lucky moment perhaps, Obi-Wan gives a good hit, I'd buy that. But the way the fight is presented... come on.

If they wanted an ending fight like the one they did they should have developed Anakin's evolution differently, as in Kill Bill 2, Pai Mei can teach you a lifetime, but at any moment he can break you apart no matter how much you learn from him.

[–] IMDBrefugee (435) 5 years ago

So as far as LAC, a movie I like actually - I think the problem is that Jamie Foxx and his partner are way cocky at first. They represent the law and think they know all. They keep getting shown up until he finally realizes he know what he's gotta do. Butlers character then unsuspectedly is beaten for his slip up.

In SW, we have Anakin who is powerful but the council like Foxx, were perhaps not cocky but not cautious and naive. They didnt consider how powerful his potential was even though they were warned, heck. Sidious played everyone. As far as the battle, Anakin is strong but was a sloppy kid, in all of his fights, he fights with anger and strength, Obi Wan fights with finesse and minds his surroundings. Anakin loses for his same sloppines and slip up.

Both "antagonists" are strong/smart but are bested by the " protagonists" and in both instances everyone underestimates the other and the antagonists slip up big time.

A poor line that I hate is how Obi Wan says Anakin knows everything he knows and is a better Jedi than he'll ever be.

So i dont think the flaw is characters being talked up, its just those that should see being warned should heed the warning.