Chosen for an Assignment of Incredible Proportions

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2018)

"Hank Pym" (Michael Douglas) is a scientist who has made a fortune on his accomplishments and has founded a corporation which allows him to continue on with a new project that involves shrinking matter. As a matter of fact, he has been so successful that he is even considering using his research on humans. And the one thing he doesn't want is for his project to fall into the wrong hands. So in order to prevent that he has kept the most important research strictly to himself. What he doesn't count on, however, is his devious assistant "Darren Cross" (Corey Stoll) maneuvering behind his back and taking over the corporation and continuing with the same research with a goal to sell this technology to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, another man named "Scott Lang" (Paul Rudd) has just gotten out of prison and is trying to make a new life for himself. Unfortunately, few places want to hire a former convict and in a moment of desperation he is convinced by some friends to break into the home of a wealthy man and steal all the money and jewels from the safe. But upon finally cracking the safe all Scott finds is a strange uniform and nothing else of any value. Realizing that this is rather odd Scott eventually puts on the uniform and discovers that his body has shrunk to an incredibly small size and that there are dangers all around him because of it. It's at this time that he hears a voice in his helmet which advises him on what to do next. What he doesn't know is that the voice belongs to Hank Pym and that he has been chosen for an assignment of incredible proportions. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a pretty good "comic book" movie which contained a good mixture of both action and comedy. Admittedly, the ending was somewhat predictable but even so it still remained quite entertaining and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Above average.