Magnus wrote:
the song selection seemed to be just a shuffle play from a Spotify "That's So 80s!" playlist. I love me a good 80s soundtrack but like everything, the songs are just thrown out at random with almost zero thought put into it.
I agree with this. I obviously liked the music as I dig 80's music, but the songs rarely felt like they were needed when they were played. Especially the times it would play when entering the IOI building. I swear one started up every time. I thought the 80's music was much better utilized in last year's Atomic Blonde.
That being said I really wasn't very interested in this movie. The trailers did nothing for me. But my cousin wanted to see it and had nobody to go with so I agreed to watch it with her. To my surprise I had a lot of fun with it. Yeah a lot of the animation is pretty unappealing but that's just a small quibble. I generally find it difficult to get into movies like this. Especially big, loud action sequences like the extended one towards the end. But I was never bored, which is impressive given the running time.
Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke are appealing leads and I had fun with all of the pop culture references. I would like to see a sequel.
Brilliantly put.
