Tropes and lazy writing

Rating: 2/10 (10 March 2019)

I went into this movie wanting it to be good, and it just was a let down. The main character was flat and unrelateable, because there was no emotion. Nothing was at stake, nor was there any semblance of a hero's journey. A soldier goes on a recovery mission, fails... then switched sides because "reasons". "But she can do the wiz-bang and save the day!" From what exactly? Plotholes? Nope. Because the plotholes abound. Is there a grater story being told here? No not really, other than women can be hero's too... but we knew that already. See I don't care if you're and man woman or flurken, a hero's gonna do hero stuff, not tell us "anything the others can do I can do too!", that's just sad exposition, and pandering to those who need to have the feminine empowerment undertones of the movie spelled out for them. For the rest of us, we kinda see it for what it is, bad writing. There's a thing that you'll hear when leading about the craft of writing, show us to tell. And this movie told us... a lot... a we're supposed to just take it... because "reasons"? I'd tell ya one thing that would have gained them at least one more star for me, if after the almost shot for shot reshoot of the Independence Day canyon chase scene had ended with "welcome to earf".