surprisingly good

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2015)

I was told that this was a reboot of an old franchise, but as I hadn't seen the previous movies this was all new to me. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be an intelligent piece of science-fiction. To my surprise, that's exactly what it turned out to be, as well as being noisy, violent, fast-paced, brilliantly edited, full of dark humour and, on the whole, well-acted. Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy and a barely recognisable Nicholas Hoult are certainly excellent in the leading roles. The production design, costumes and make-up are all superbly realised. The two-hour running time flew by. The ending was perfect. All in all, I enjoyed it a lot.