Going through the motions to make Marvel some more $$$

Rating: 4/10 (11 June 2017)

So this drivel is what passes for a "good" movie nowadays... sad. I don't remember the last time I saw a great Marvel movie, and this is no exception.
Someone apparently thought that making the main character an egotistical, arrogant, obnoxious, stuck-up snob was a good idea. I suppose there's a change of heart somewhere in the movie where (how original! we've never seen that before), to the "oohs" and "aahs" of the audience, he realizes the error of his ways and turns into mr. compassionate nice guy, but I missed it. He's a jerk throughout the movie. 0 for 1 so far.
The bad guy has the acting skills of a cardboard box. He has about ten lines in the entire movie, which is a good thing as his English is atrocious. So nothing interesting in the villain department either. 0 for 2.
Plot then, perhaps? Mmmkay... let's see. Evil bad guy steals pages from the Book of Doom (TM), which oddly enough openly sits in the library of the good guys, because they're gullible fools who blindly trust everyone who enters their monastery, which oddly enough sits in the middle of Nepal yet is populated exclusively by westerners and one or two token Asians. Evil guy wants to then summon the Demon of Doom (TM) who will give him immortality. Good guys have to stop him. Wow! What a breath of fresh air! Sigh. 0 for 3. Actually, if you count the absolutely dreadful and forced romantic relationship, 0 for 4.
Finally, SFX? Err... other than some walls folding in on themselves (it appears that's the only spells these guys can cast), a Demon of Doom so bad it almost verges on comedy, and a gate spell that's used every 2 minutes and which looks like a kid waving a sparkle stick, nothing either.
Trite, hackneyed junk. No interesting characters and a plot that's a joke - do yourself a favor and read a few old comics instead. Not the junk they put out these days, but something from the 70s or 80s.