A group of high-school kids, who are infused with unique superpowers, harness their abilities in order to save the world.
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Movie Info
From a story by Executive Producer Roberto Orci (TRANSFORMERS, STAR
TREK, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2) and screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley
Miller (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, THOR) comes a modern reinvention of the
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a group of ordinary high school kids who
find themselves infused with extraterrestrial powers and must harness
those powers as a team to save the world. (c) Lionsgate
Storyline:
High school outcasts stumble upon an old alien ship, where they acquire
superpowers and are dubbed the Power Rangers. Learning that an old enemy
of the previous generation has returned to exact vegenance, the group
must harness their powers and use them to work together and save the
world.
Cast
Also appearing in the movie casts like:
Bryan Cranston as Zordon, Sarah Grey as Amanda and Cody Kearsley as Hawkeye.
Review:
Today I want to start with some details about the movie data, like site facts and after that I will talk about the movie itself because there a lot of information we should know about the movie before I can tell you my true opinion about it. So the whole budget of the movie is about 105.000.000$, 1.000.000$ just for the cast and the rest was invested into sound, camera, and effects. So please take note of the facts first.
Then we have a good cast actually with Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Naomi Scott.
Again the movie is about 124 minutes.
Why is that important to point? You will see now.
So let's starting talking about the cast first. The cast is actually the biggest problem of the movie. Of course we have Superstars from Hollywood, who have an experience in acting already, especially when I look at the Ranger's cast. But there are way too much of characters. The movie starts with an introduction part of the characters, and to tell the story of each Ranger takes already 60 minutes of the whole movie. All the "new" Rangers (later on I will tell you why "new") do not know each other, but they have something very special in common and what it is, is also something special, and the combination of special and special is again special, so that each character should be special. This is what the wants to tell us, but it totally fails, and I am so sorry for that because I am a cheesy fan of the Power Rangers, but the storyline and the way of introducing the team to us does not work at all.
So the best character in the movie R.J. Cyler, he is the best performer in the movie, he is funny, he is real, and he is the only one who give us an aspect of what to think while watching. The other characters are acting like too much funny, and if the jokes are not funny, I could laugh about them, and the way of how they want to be teenager and superheroes at the same is not working. They are too cheesy, the style is crazy, it is not enough to give girls leather leggings and colored shirts, when the script does not fulfill them.
And so we come to the next problem of the movie and the characters which is the script. A movie is not good when you don not have a good script and also a good script cannot make a bad movie better, when the actors are not good. The story for the characters is low, too low, not much intelligent, and again the jokes are not funny. I am a kind of tired to see white people making fun of black people, but this is happening again right here. I expect more from a movie with such a high budget, especially for the cast only.
Then we have Bryan Cranston as Zordon, he has a overall screen time of just 5 minutes, this is it. Anyone else can play that, but really Bryan? What happened to him? This is not good for him I think and the score for his role reflects that also. His role makes only 6 in the whole metascore of the movie, which BTW 45 out of 100 only. Please take note of that metascore.
Elizabeth Banks takes over the evil person as Rita Repulsa. She is such an evil and bad girl in this movie and again according to the script she has no other chance to be like this. In those 5 minutes, where she has the chance to tell us why she became like this, the movie turns into a SCI-FI spectacular, which we cannot believe in anymore, that we still watching Power Rangers. Later on I will tell you about other movies, which Power Rangers wants to cheer up with, too.
Other people cannot be mention in this review because they are simply not good in their acting.
The camera is actually the best tech used. It is simple, speeds ups during the action scenes, and uses slow motion. Too many slow motion. From minute 70 on I have the feeling to watch a slow motion movie, and it was maing me tired on this feeling while watching, because if something repearts and repeats, you will get tired of it. So the normal feeling is we try to avoid it and this is the worst case for a movie.
The settings is another problem of the movie. Of course we have a school, which looks nice and gets us back to our school memories. But then the cave is too much on high tech, which is not used at its best, the transformation of the Rangers into robots look more like a recap of transformers, and the way of how the robots look like is also more like Bambelbee and the other Transformers.
The music is too much, is some scenes, which are dramatic it is louder than the voices of the actors. In action scenes it is too much noise, and does not make fun.
The effects are bad. Especially in the last fighting sequences of the movie we have POV and explosions which look too much like CGI and too much pixeled. You can see the graphic errors of the used computers to animate the robots, you can see pixel errors, and the water looks more like a painting, when the Rangers are entering the cave. By the way the cave turns into a space station so that I was asking myself, where does the movie want to bring us? What is his real message?
What I like about the movie:
I like the cast, when I do not think about the characters in the movie itself, and when I also forget about their interactions and way of getting introduced to us.
I like Billy as the special character, he is funny, and most likely the best in the cast.
I like the way of introducing each special force of each Ranger, that they are suddenly super strong and this is great to see and also the best way of pushing the action into the front.
What I do not like about the movie:
124 minutes, the movie is way too long. Its feels actually like a 3 hours movie. Then I am asking myself what is the aim group of viewers? The movie is PG 13 so it is not made for kids, older tweenies or adults may get bored too quickly because of the script, the actors, and what you see. Then there is no emotional bonding to the audience, a great problem of a 2 hours movie, when you do not get catched by what is happening. The storyline is easy to read and you always know what will happen next. Rita is dark and brutal, she is simply evil and that's it. The ending is very much more than trash, funny moments are not funny, the jokes are not good. The effect are really bad, too much CGI, and that is all what is good for the upcoming movies, because if you keep on sitting in the cinemas until the credits, you can read within and at the end of the credits, where the movie series Power Rangers wants to go. The movies wants to place itself on the same letter as Die Hard and Transformers, and the script is like this also.
Genre Rating:
So for its genre as an action, thriller, fantasy, and a kinda superhero movie it is only 4 out of 10 points, and so I have to agree with the metascore, even if I feel really sorry for that, but it could have been more with such a huge budget and such a cast.
Overall Rating:
Compared to all the other movies and when I think about what is still to come this year I give Power Rangers 2 out of 10 points, and so I have to say, that it is a chance for true fans of Power Rangers, but for everyone else it is not worth to watch it.
That is my true opinion about Power Rangers, right now in all the cinemas worldwide.
Thank you for reading this very long review, but there was a lot to say, also. Have a great day, bye bye.
