Free Guy
Free Guy was a movie I had been anticipating for quite some time. Not because I was blown away from what I'd seen, but because it was tackling a pretty unconventional concept that not many movies tend to cover, so that alone was pretty intriguing. After a long wait for a VOD release, I'm happy to say that I can finally sleep at night knowing that the movie really isn't that good, which really isn't all that shocking to come to terms with.
The first half of the movie is easily the most enjoyable part of the film with a lot of rather cheesy visual quips and one-liners that added a lot of charm to the film. I don't consider <PERSON> to be a very good actor, but his performance fits the cheesy tone of the movie, along with the romance dynamic. I do want to point out that obviously the film isn't trying to take itself too seriously throughout the runtime, which is probably why I enjoyed it more than I should've. It works more as an enjoyable experience if you turn your brain off and don't think too deeply into it, despite some distracting visuals and conflicts here and there.
If the film lived up to be anything like the first half, I think I'd be giving it a slightly higher rating, but unfortunately eventually, I grew to be bored during the second half and physically recoiling during a scene dedicated to the writers thinking "oh wait this is technically a Disney movie; let's be sure to show that" and then showing a Disney IP cluster meant to be played off as comedic; SPOILERS...it's not. The pacing greatly suffered in comparison to the first half and there's a lot of predictable movie tropes/resolutions that you see coming from 30 miles away.
In conclusion, I really didn't hate this movie like I thought I would. 292
It's a pretty enjoyable, fun movie for half of the movie, and then a dull, uninteresting cluttered mess for the other. When I knew about the IP inclusion, I thought it was gonna be handled more along the lines of "HEY GUYS WE ARE BIG COMPANY HERE IS EVERYTHING WE OWN" like what Space Jam: A New Legacy did, but if anything, there was more inspiration than IP inclusion, if you exclude about 10-15 minutes or so out of the film. Definitely wasn't a miserable experience like a lot of other current year movies I've seen, and I wish I could've liked it more than I did, but you may get more out of it then I do. Check this one out if you wish!
45/100
P.S: Really enjoyed the inclusion of content creators, although Pokimane is very annoying. Why did they include her, instead of my queen, <PERSON>? God, the things I'd let her do to me. Missed opportunity IMO.
P.S.S: Love you long time, <PERSON>. You studmuffin, you. 292