Synopsis: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
I was waiting for this movie for quite a while, not that I knew and liked the source material, but the trailers got me by their weirdness and difference, from what I have seen before. I love Matrix(1999), and this movie looked a lot like it - familiar, but different at the same time so I just was sold on this film. Scarlett Johansson is a great action star, her talents were perfectly used in such films as: The Avengers (2012) or Lucy (2014), so she perfectly fits the character of Major, who can fight and needs a great actress to play her right. Major is very complex, her body is synthetic, but the consciousness is taken form another person, who almost died. She was created in a lab, so she could be a terminator for the government stopping the most dangerous terrorists.
This movie has a unique style. The world looks beautiful, the film is visually stunning. The atmosphere, generated by the visual look and deep, magnificent soundtrack already makes this film worth watching. I really enjoyed the entourage of that gorgeous city, in which this movie takes place. Everything looked fresh and great. I think, that the CGI was well put in the wide shots, the city looked very impressive, especially at night with all those huge moving commercials, it felt absolutely great.
This film is more about character development and style, with which this movie is made. Scarlett Johansson is great as a mostly robot-hero, having also her memories from the past. The mystery behind her past life is explored more and more until the end. There are some longer scenes of maybe boring dialogs about important things, and those dialogs are not necessarily the best, so overall it looked slow paced, and some plot devices, that were purposed to connect the parts into one, were not well used, leaving the taste of a bad storytelling at times.
I think, that there is nothing horribly wrong with this movie, it is different and good in its own way, but understandably so, this is not the best directorial work by Rupert Sanders, and it didn't appeal to a lot of people. However, the cinematography was great and some characters were very interesting, so I thought, that the story was better than the way it was moved by some obscure plot devises. Obviously, this movie will be forgotten very fast, but I really saw something in it, even though I understand, that this movie is not successful.
I think, that there is nothing horribly wrong with this movie, it is different and good in its own way, but understandably so, this is not the best directorial work by Rupert Sanders, and it didn't appeal to a lot of people. However, the cinematography was great and some characters were very interesting, so I thought, that the story was better than the way it was moved by some obscure plot devises. Obviously, this movie will be forgotten very fast, but I really saw something in it, even though I understand, that this movie is not successful.
