Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Opens Dec. 16.
(Thankfully, Moana doesnt have a love interest.)
And like those films, its phantasmagorical special effects are easy on the eyes.
Credit: Barry Wetcher; Lucasfilm
So why doesFantastic Beastsfeel so oddly lifeless?
Why doesnt it cast more of a spell?
First, there are the performances, which aside from Redmaynes are surprisingly flat.
And second, the thinness of the source material gives the whole film a slightly padded feeling.
Maybe this is all necessary table-setting that will lead to bigger payoffs in chapters 2 through 5.
But its all in the service of building to its final revelation and also of conveying Louises enormous loss.
(Were a long way from the blunt-force shenanigans of HYDRA here.
)Doctor Strangeis thrilling in the way a lot of other Marvel movies are.
Its eye candy and brain candy.B+
Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Metacritic: 72
