Weak script, lazy direction or poor characters?

Rating: 4/10 (10 December 2014)

As most of the audience out there, I enjoy Marvel films. They're cleverly written to please the viewer a brain-resting title that makes you feel accomplished, part of something bigger and, most of all, doesn't make you feel uncomfortable. I wasn't dying to watch Guardians of the Galaxy for two reasons: I didn't know about that specific Marvel group of heroes and the marketing image built around it gave me the feeling that it wasn't for me. Something changed, several people made positive comments about it therefore I watched it. I was pretty excited at the idea of another brain-resting enjoyable marvel film (you know where I'm going here). The all film was a disappointment. Chris Pratt didn't get the sympathy he was desperately looking for with his melancholic mix tape. Rocket the raccoon tried to lift the humor of the film with few quite amusing episodes, but overall he also didn't make me want to care. Neytiri.. oh no, I meant... Gamora was cold an distant from the story itself. I felt I spent two hours watching at the desperate attempts of the cast of getting my attention, when I could really only focus and enjoy on Vin Diesel's brilliant performance. I don't know if it was a poor script or if James Gunn didn't feel as inspired with this cast as with Sarah Michelle Gellar and friends. Maybe it's just the fact that not all the characters from the Marvel jar of Superheroes can be turned into cinema. I was disappointed, therefore I will a bit more doubt the Marvel productions coming up next.