Very bad execution by director.

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2016)

This movie had great ideas and great potential just like Godzilla. However also just like Godzilla the execution was done not terribly but pretty bad. I'm not going to spoil anything because the story line is one of the decent parts of the film. I'm also going to try and talk about real problems and subjective things that weren't to my taste. When I left the theater I thought the movie was alright, then I started thinking about everything I had just watched and realized a lot of it doesn't make any sense at all. This director is really bad at paying attention to little detail. This movie had terrible editing absolutely terrible editing. The amount of jump cuts in this film is compatible comparable sentence. At the beginning of the film inside a home with 3 characters in under 15 seconds it cuts to each character two times each in under 15 SECONDS... It hurt my eyes. There were also very many scenes where pointless 3 to 5 second clips of something that didn't need to be shown was there, which just added to the unnecessary amount of jump cuts. Other than the main character, no character had any real background. Since I'm on characters none of them had any real amount of character progression either. The main character has a personality jump out of nowhere that leads in to a generic "I must give hope speech to convince people to fight with me" right after the same people just did something that I'm sure would never be forgiven by anyone. Not within the time she did. Considering the stupid illogical characters in the story I would not trust any of them with my life. I'm trying hard not to go into detail so really this is all I can say. The characters were one of the weakest parts of the film. There were 3 that were likable but again they didn't have any background or character development. Them I guess the last thing I will complain about is the amount of small things that don't make any sense. Sure a couple is forgivable but in almost every scene something did not make sense. From denying logic to just characters doing very stupid things. This is a small complaint and it's a complaint about every star wars film but i do not like gun battles with the storm troopers. When the storm troopers are shot at, there is no entry or exit wound, no holes and they only take one hit to go down. However the human characters can take laser shots to clothing and flesh and still keep fighting... Yeah I"m sorry but no that's not okay. Also there was a scene where the force of a ship taking off rolled a character back off a platform but, corpses, other bodies and objects did not move an inch. I could go on and on about really stupid things that this film had going but I won't waste your time just know that really illogical things like those two examples I just gave happen throughout this entire film. I also think the main characters performance was very stale but again I think that's due to poor directing. Another quick little gripe and this is a little subjective is they felt the need to show a flashback of something that was just in a scene not even 10 minutes before the flashback. This is a personal gripe of mine but it makes me feel that the movie thinks I am incapable of following important story aspects. It makes me feel that the director thinks it's audience is retarded. Instead of a flashback why not just have a really strong emotional scene that has heavy impact on the viewers... I don't think it's the worse movie ever but it had terrible execution, bad editing, lots of continuity errors and generic story aspects and very, very stupid illogical characters. These are all the exact same problems I had with Godzilla and it sucks to see this director hasn't moved forward at all. I wanted to love this movie. If I had to actually have a positive for the film it would be the animation. There were a couple points where I didn't notice certain things were animated... Other than that everything else was just okay or poorly executed.