Nobody 2
This review contains spoilers
To elaborate on the finale:
The rest of the movie has cool hand-to-hand fighting. Not top-tier, but a hell of a lot of fun. So while I know they were going for that Seven Samurai setup where they prep an area for defense in order to combat a larger group of opponents, it goes against what I was enjoying prior. Sure, it's fine. I didn't hate it. But I dunno, it's probably just a me issue but I would have preferred them to stay more inline with what they were doing before the final act, because watching someone go from trap to trap somehow feels less believable and sillier to me than if they had just taken them on in a more conventional way. So I knocked it down 5 points, making it slightly worse than the first because of this.
The rest of the movie has cool hand-to-hand fighting. Not top-tier, but a hell of a lot of fun. So while I know they were going for that Seven Samurai setup where they prep an area for defense in order to combat a larger group of opponents, it goes against what I was enjoying prior. Sure, it's fine. I didn't hate it. But I dunno, it's probably just a me issue but I would have preferred them to stay more inline with what they were doing before the final act, because watching someone go from trap to trap somehow feels less believable and sillier to me than if they had just taken them on in a more conventional way. So I knocked it down 5 points, making it slightly worse than the first because of this.
Mini Review: I would have rated this the same as the first because up until the finale, it does everything the first does about as well (though I have a terrible memory and don't remember tons). But for all the setup and the explosions and territorial dangers, I just thought the final showdown lacked the imagination of the fight scenes prior.