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Did anyone actually like it?

posted 8 years ago by fatelovesthefearless
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Saw it today and i was quite disappointed. I was really looking forward to this as i liked the first one, but this felt like an inferior clone of fast and the furious. I hated the whole team thing as it wasnt like that in the first one and thats what fast and the furious is. I thought this was meant to be a spy movie. And where was the story? I know its an action movie but cmon.

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[–] 8 years ago

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[–] scottstvshop 8 years ago

They referenced Avengers in the recruit in the start, it was a bit like that and a bit like Fast and Furious. I barely remember the first XXX movie though I own it, it was pretty fun I thought. I didn't come in expecting James Bond and I wasn't unhappy at all.

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[–] fatelovesthefearless 8 years ago

Avengers is so so much better. The acting is like 10x better and it actually has a storyline. And I also like the characters in avengers more because they have their own movies and back stories. I don't know why you would even compare the two movies they are nothing alike.

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[–] maratonrunner 8 years ago

I think Avengers is a boring superhero movie. everything in avengers is picture postcard for teenagers.

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[–] MethodTSixshot 8 years ago

And this is for edgy 12 year olds. 

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[–] WhoopsieThree-D 8 years ago

you like avengers and yet this isn't great.

I'm not sure what the OP liking "The Avengers" has to do with anything.

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[–] WhoopsieThree-D 8 years ago

Admittedly I had fun with it. I'll file this one under "guilty pleasures".

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[–] fatelovesthefearless 8 years ago

Yeah it was entertaining enough to watch once but I just thought it would be a bit better.

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[–] mx334 8 years ago

Its only been a couple of days but I remember more of it than that Tarzan movie I rented.

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[–] brobqq 8 years ago

it got a huge pop at my theater...the entire seating capacity clapped, whistled and yelled. there were even several on their feet.

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[–] Riarcus 8 years ago

By the end of the film there is about ten different main characters. We didn't get much reason to invest in any of them. Fast and the Furious is at least better at giving them distinct personalities. Nina Dobrev is very cute. They tried to make her the funny one but it didn't work that well. Then there was the crazy white guy. Because every movie has to have a white male jester these days for people to laugh at. Most of them, including Ruby Rose, were one dimensional tough guys. I expected her role to have more to it. ROXC would have been better with a condensed cast.

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[–] fatelovesthefearless 8 years ago

Agreed too many characters. It might have worked if the team had been a lot smaller and there was room for character development

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[–] I_Guard_Tanelorn 8 years ago

Storywise, this movie stole a lot from Goldeneye and the Mission Impossible series and a few other flicks, including a number of direct scene thefts. Though i'm pretty sure i've never seen a guy get flushed down an airplane crapper to his demise before. Anyhow, because of all that, there wasn't much to even enjoy in the movie, seen it all before.

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[–] fatelovesthefearless 8 years ago

I can deal with the unoriginality of it because I get that it would be incredibly hard not to copy at least one movie Nowadays when it comes to action it's all been done but yeah the storyline was so predictable. For once if they are going to have a sequel let some more main good guys die and the bad guys win at least for now and let the good guys win in the sequel

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[–] wildpeace10 8 years ago

Better than all the others IMO.The action scenes are very well done.
Worth the D box price if it's available in your area.

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