I thoroughly enjoyed watching this film in the theater with a group of my friends- it is fun, funny, loud, intense and action packed, just what a film needs to generally be enjoyed on a surface level. The film's special effects and CGI were also exceptional, and the cast was perfect. However, what seems like what would be an incredible film thus far fell very flat in plot.

Besides providing background information for many of the characters, there was very little plot structure to this film. The hunt for Credence the obscurist continues, and the small romantic elements between characters underlie and influence some decisions made in the film, but besides that, there is little to be said about the story line. This film also indulged in pet peeve of mine in film, specifically the Harry Potter universe, that being the fact that almost every character is a long lost brother, cousin, friend or unbreakable-oath member to another character in the story. Is everyone related in some way? Why are no characters just strangers to each other? By using these "I'm actually your (fill in the blank with a relative title)," multiple times, the realism of the story suffered quite a lot.

This film is a good go-to-the-theater-with-your-friends movie, but if you're actually after a compelling and well explained plot, you will most likely be disappointed.