The rave reviews, the Oscars... There are surely more meaningful and thought-provoking movies that were made in 2022, were there not?

The movie is an incomprehensible jumble of martial arts stunts and random special effects, severely lacking a storyline (because the action always jumps laterally, and that's intentional) or meaning. For those patient enough to sit through the first (excruciatingly senseless) one hour and 45 minutes, some meaning may start to emerge. I almost didn't make the cut to be in that group, I almost bailed out at the one hour mark (that's how much I normally give films to start becoming interesting or meaningful). But being an Oscar winning film, I made an exception.

After the senseless setup, most of which should have ended up on the edit room floor, a message starts to emerge. The message is pretty trite and far from revolutionary. The movie does take the crown in one category in my opinion, that of "the most disappointing movie of the year". Especially when considering the hype to value ratio. Very disappointing.