Review of the movie Power Rangers. Colorful nostalgia
Let's start with the fact that today the work of the Lionsgate studio is one of the most controversial in Hollywood. From the trailers of their movies, it is absolutely impossible to understand what awaits the viewer in the cinema, and in the case of two essentially identical concepts - one can turn out to be a candy, and from the other - a failure, I'm now talking about "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent", respectively ... And in the case of the sequels, the studio has the same story: the strong first "John Wick" may be followed by a brilliant second, and the magnificent "Illusion of Deception" - a zilch instead of a sequel. So with "Power Rangers" it was absolutely unclear what to expect, failure or success. And you know, it turned out closer to the second. The plot of the movie is based on the series of the same name, namely, on its first season. A group of teenagers climbs where they are not asked, as a result of which they acquire the powers of superheroes and become the defenders of their city Angel Grove from the attacks of Rita Repulsa, who, as usual, wants to destroy the whole world. Why she needs it, they never tell us, but oh well. In fact, the creators got the same thing that fans of the TV series could see each episode. Two-thirds of the movie, the five heroes are ordinary schoolchildren-losers, with their problems we understand, they just live, study, love, and in the last third they put on suits and go to save their city. Nothing new, the question is how it is implemented. First about the characters. And you know the characters are good. The impression was that the director of the movie "Continuum", whose main feature was the well-developed characters, having received a large budget, began to shoot exactly the same thing, only with Transformers and expensive. I can imagine how he gathered the main characters and told them something like this: "So, you punks, you are losers. All five. You play yourself, but only losers. You do not have one defining emotion or quality. Just come up with image, this is your homework. See you tomorrow and see what you get. " As a result, the actors on the screen really look alive, and not like mannequins, and their problems are clear to the viewer. At the same time, each has one trait, just like in the series. We have a rebel, an autistic, an insecure leader, a notorious schoolgirl and, yes, a lesbian, although the latter does not affect the plot at all. Just a girl at the moment "tell about your problems" will tell everyone that she likes girls, and that's it. Lord, even in "Beauty and the Beast" our attention was focused on LeFou's non-trivial orientation more! So the teenagers turned out to be quite alive and as the actors, in general, coped with it, although only Naomi Scott (Kimberly) has at least some experience of shooting in a blockbuster here, and that episodic, slightly lit up in "The Martian." p> But with much more famous actors, it's more difficult. The game of Brian Cranston, who played Zordon, is almost impossible to evaluate: he appears only in the form of a huge black and white smeared head. Viewers of the original version who heard his voice could have said more about him, but yours truly is not one of them. And for Elizabeth Banks, who played Rita, I have no questions. She was not prescribed motivation, they just said "you are evil, be evil, be nauseatingly disgusting," and Banks portrayed this perfectly, somewhat reminiscent of the work of Glenn Close in the image of Cruella from "101 Dalmatians". The camera work is good, although the operator has one fixed idea - when the Rangers are standing in a circle, it is imperative to put the camera in the center and start slowly rotating it. The first time it looked spectacular, the third time a little boring. The script isn't brilliant, but it's not bad either. The creators do not give a damn about logic and the laws of physics, but if you look at the movie as a remake of the series, it even seems funny. For example, if a person is hit with an uppercut by a Zold (a local robot), he will fly into space, well, everything like that. Somewhere in the middle, the movie begins to sag a little, because the final battle is still far away, and we have already met all the characters. But it only lasts five or seven minutes, after which the viewer is finally given what he came for - colored suits, large robots and the invariable "Go, Go Power Rangers!", Even if the latter is given only ten seconds to listen. And you know, drawn, everything, of course, is not worth a hundred million dollars, but after the puppet show, yes, on the big screen, it looks very much. And the main thing is that the whole action lasts not two minutes, but twenty-two, and upon leaving the cinema the viewer does not feel deceived, and this is the main thing in any remake. As for the music - there is no one of our own, five or six famous compositions and something from the series are borrowed. By and large, everything is organic. Do I need to go to the cinema? If you loved the old show, definitely yes, you will be pleased. If you are tired of the superhero movie, which has been so much lately, you can safely skip it so that you can watch it at home in a couple of months. And I, as a person who grew up on the series, really liked it, although I don't want a sequel to the movie. This is the same golden mean when you need to take off and stop. Otherwise, some third or fourth sequel may well suffer the fate of the last part of "Divergent", which the viewer will never see in the movies. The Topic of Article: Review of the movie Power Rangers. Colorful nostalgia. |
