In short: terrible script, lack of useful message.
The movie tries to be realistic. Other than the superpowers of the protagonist, everything tries to resemble to reality - or at least how the writer of this movie perceived it. But then very quickly you realize that plot holes are everywhere:
There is a teenager who is raped by a gang at her own home. A bystander gets shot in the head. The whole f*cking country would be all over about this story. No way that the police wouldn't be all over it asking them if they recognized their attackers? They even know the attackers and their motivation! And they don't f*cking report it to the police?! Just let's go do some vigilante!
Later down the line, he realizes that he can't bring them down, so he plant's on those guys fake evidence - which is highly improbable if not impossible to carry out the way the movie implied it, as we didn't even see him planting the fake evidence. WHY NOT JUST TELL THE POLICE THAT I KNOW WHO SHOT ME IN THE HEAD?! As stupid as a cabbage can go!
So many missed opportunities. Disappointingly shallow characters. Even Maisie's powerful performance is doomed by the utterly terrible script. And everybody knows that this trash of a movie would have never been seen by anyone if it was not Maisie in this role.
The plot is FORCED to flow in the direction in such an unrealistic way. And always by chance. The drug dealer leaves his door wide open and ALL of them leave the flat that they should be protecting, when its obviously a BAIT going on. They haven't seen any Godfather I suppose.
And come on, that Darth Vader & Luke Skywalker conversation was the lamest of all. I'm your father!
The pure black & white characters make it even more shallow.
And the thrown in plot elements that have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING - like the grandmother who writes. That information has nothing to do with the story-line. A good movie gives you information that is either interesting, or has something to do with the story at some point.
The conclusion of the movie is that London is full of psychopathic criminals and that ain't gonna change. Not even a "superhero" can make a difference. This terribly depressing message held me hurting throughout the entire movie, feeling utterly powerless, I can only accept my faith that there is no hope of change here. Thanks garbage scriptwriter, that was refreshing! Just checked it, it was 4 of them who managed to stockpile this amount of trash. You really need 8 hands for this :D
Yeah, unfortunately a serious writer wouldn't start writing a plot around the ultra-lame base story of having a cell-phone-propelled- superbrain that is injected via a gunshot.
The movie tries to be realistic. Other than the superpowers of the protagonist, everything tries to resemble to reality - or at least how the writer of this movie perceived it. But then very quickly you realize that plot holes are everywhere:
There is a teenager who is raped by a gang at her own home. A bystander gets shot in the head. The whole f*cking country would be all over about this story. No way that the police wouldn't be all over it asking them if they recognized their attackers? They even know the attackers and their motivation! And they don't f*cking report it to the police?! Just let's go do some vigilante!
Later down the line, he realizes that he can't bring them down, so he plant's on those guys fake evidence - which is highly improbable if not impossible to carry out the way the movie implied it, as we didn't even see him planting the fake evidence. WHY NOT JUST TELL THE POLICE THAT I KNOW WHO SHOT ME IN THE HEAD?! As stupid as a cabbage can go!
So many missed opportunities. Disappointingly shallow characters. Even Maisie's powerful performance is doomed by the utterly terrible script. And everybody knows that this trash of a movie would have never been seen by anyone if it was not Maisie in this role.
The plot is FORCED to flow in the direction in such an unrealistic way. And always by chance. The drug dealer leaves his door wide open and ALL of them leave the flat that they should be protecting, when its obviously a BAIT going on. They haven't seen any Godfather I suppose.
And come on, that Darth Vader & Luke Skywalker conversation was the lamest of all. I'm your father!
The pure black & white characters make it even more shallow.
And the thrown in plot elements that have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING - like the grandmother who writes. That information has nothing to do with the story-line. A good movie gives you information that is either interesting, or has something to do with the story at some point.
The conclusion of the movie is that London is full of psychopathic criminals and that ain't gonna change. Not even a "superhero" can make a difference. This terribly depressing message held me hurting throughout the entire movie, feeling utterly powerless, I can only accept my faith that there is no hope of change here. Thanks garbage scriptwriter, that was refreshing! Just checked it, it was 4 of them who managed to stockpile this amount of trash. You really need 8 hands for this :D
Yeah, unfortunately a serious writer wouldn't start writing a plot around the ultra-lame base story of having a cell-phone-propelled- superbrain that is injected via a gunshot.