This flick takes too long to get going and when it does it doesn't do enough. I expected another Die Hard but this is far from it. One of those that you'd need to see on the big screen to get anything out of.
Sam particularly, but this just has unlikeable characters from go to whoa with a ridiculous plot to boot. I can't stand this love story BS like they'll be together for the rest of their life from practically a 15 year old with someone she has never had a conversation with. One of the most overrated movies I've tried to watch. I had to skim through the last 30 minutes or so.
According to what I've read, Ferrari's future didn't really depend on winning the Mille Miglia. If that's true, surely there was enough non-fictional drama in Enzo's life to choose from that we didn't need the fantasy. Nevertheless, even with the ending seeming like it was somewhat rushed, I enjoyed the film. However, it does make me ask questions about the on-going double standards of the easy offended brigade. If a heterosexual actor is cast as a homosexual person everyone is up in arms. If a white person is cast as a black figure, as above. If a white person is cast as a Hispanic person, the twitter fingers go wild. A skinny actor plays a fat person, OMG! But here we go again, just like Mario, we have an Italian icon and others cast as non-Italians and no one cared. The selective outrage continues.
For the most part I enjoyed this. I thought the pacing was decent, (moving along nicely), the comedy worked to a decent enough level for a superhero film, Ezra fits the role, all of the call backs to previous heroes was an engaging addition, and it has some relatable sentimentally (Gypsy Rose aside, we all love our mums). However, it fell into a bit of a hole towards the end. The main fight and the scenes around it dragged on, it's fought in an environment that isn't the least bit visually appealing and to me reeked of laziness from the film producers who didn't want to have any background to CGI. And while I'm on CGI, there is again too much of it. The Batman sequence at the beginning being one of the main offenders. It's so much more engrossing when it looks real. When will they learn this and stop cutting corners? Both of these complaints are ones I have made for previous DC movies too. Apart from that, discounting any plot holes that always come with time travel movies, it didn't feel like a 2hr 30 film.
