Pokémon Detective Pikachu is the best video game movie ever. Sadly for all of us, that's an amazingly low bar to jump.
Ryan Reynolds' performance is surprisingly good (not amazing, but more than I expected), the high production value shows all the time. The CGI is good at places. But that's about it.
The premise is interesting but the plot and script are horrible, full of plot-holes and extremely awkward dialogue. The main actors are average at best and I'm giving them extra points because sincerely they couldn't do much better with the terrible script the writers gave them.
The tone of the movie is constantly shifting, from kids movie to detective pseudo-noir to action flick to comedy... it really doesn't know what it wants to be.
To sum it up all in one line, the move isn't *bad*, it's just all over the place. I think 10 minutes more of runtime and a tighter edition could improve the quality a lot.
At the end of the day and despite my hard critic I'm happy this movie exist. Not because it's good (if you didn't notice so far, it's not) but because I sincerely believe the next ones will be better. I have high hopes the writers will decode what went wrong and will give us a better movie from the sequel onwards. But most importantly, I'm excited to see Hollywood making more gaming movies, this time taking note of what worked and what not and acting accordingly.
Ryan Reynolds' performance is surprisingly good (not amazing, but more than I expected), the high production value shows all the time. The CGI is good at places. But that's about it.
The premise is interesting but the plot and script are horrible, full of plot-holes and extremely awkward dialogue. The main actors are average at best and I'm giving them extra points because sincerely they couldn't do much better with the terrible script the writers gave them.
The tone of the movie is constantly shifting, from kids movie to detective pseudo-noir to action flick to comedy... it really doesn't know what it wants to be.
To sum it up all in one line, the move isn't *bad*, it's just all over the place. I think 10 minutes more of runtime and a tighter edition could improve the quality a lot.
At the end of the day and despite my hard critic I'm happy this movie exist. Not because it's good (if you didn't notice so far, it's not) but because I sincerely believe the next ones will be better. I have high hopes the writers will decode what went wrong and will give us a better movie from the sequel onwards. But most importantly, I'm excited to see Hollywood making more gaming movies, this time taking note of what worked and what not and acting accordingly.