Take Edgar Wright's technical prowess, add a boring script

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2017)

A lot of flash and pop and noise. It's very good flash and pop and noise, especially compared to most of what's out there, but it's not much else. It's what happens when you take the direction and technical prowess of Edgar Wright's other films, namely the Cornetto Trilogy and Scott Pilgrim vs The World, but you fail to bring over the fun premise and excellent dialogue, settling for just "pretty good" instead. Perhaps Wright simply isn't that fantastic of a writer (gedit, Wright can't write, eh!), for his previous films were either collaboratively written or/and based on a graphic novel. Even though its attempted tone and style was that of unabashed camp, fun and silliness, it never went all out or crazy enough to make it terribly worth while.