Not even Milla could save this one. Bizarre and meandering plotline with a Monty Python ending, canned dialogue, overblown special f/x. Monster-fu, flaming sword-fu, native warrior+hunter-fu. Don't pay full admission price for this one. You may not make it past the big grumpy kitty scene.

And her minigun fired too slowly!

Milla peaked with The Fifth Element.

Aw come on, it wasn't that bad. For a movie based on a fantasy GAME, it wasn't that bad. I thought it was a lot of fun. Way better than Wonder Woman girl power crap. Milla still fits her heroine-badass-in-an-alternate-reality role well. No, she isn't as hot as the young Milla Leeloo in the Fifth Element, but she's still damn easy on the eyes. At least no apparent political or girl-power overtones in this movie. Milla was not some over powered female character compared to the men in the movie. I thought her character was strong and determined, but not any more so than the men (i.e. men freaking out, while the lead female is smart, calm, and the only one who solved all the problems).

The Army/Soldiers wasn't made out to be the bad guys or incompetent's, just caught in situations where their weapons and training couldn't prepare for, especially without foreknowledge. Nobody did anything overtly stupid, especially in the typical manner of making men doing stupid or mean shit and dying for it, just to give the females a character motive and look stronger.

While the plot line isn't amazing, it wasn't horrible either considering the context of this being a fantasy GAME tie-in. CGI was very nice too. They didn't fill the backstory in on who all the soldiers were (even Milla), where they were initially, etc, but who cares. It wasn't germane to the movie which was about monsters and killing monsters. You don't watch Kaiju-style movies expecting Shakespearean plotlines and backstories. If I can simply watch movie without leftist agenda's pushing guns-bad, men-bad, etc, and with a strong good looking girl working and fighting with equally competent men against creepy giant monsters, I'm more than happy!

I give it a big thumbs up!

btw: the Cat, while weird, WAS consistent with the game characters.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Milla peaked with The Fifth Element.

I'm pretty sure she's making millions of dollars for each of these cheesy ass action flicks, so she's not exactly hurting

But yes the Fifth Element was the best movie she's been in/her best performance.

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Originally posted by Jester814:

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Milla peaked with The Fifth Element.

But yes the Fifth Element was the best movie she's been in/her best performance.

Personally I consider "Dazed & Confused" her best movie in which she made an appearance. I may be wrong, but I think it was her movie debut, as it was for several other well known actors (Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser, Rene Zellweger, etc)