An expensive superhero movie

Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2018)

This is an expensive feature. The fake 1940s theme. The light filters. It is well polished.
It is made to be a prize winner. The water theme, the fluid camera. Decent acting. No trace of originality. If there was a phone booth in the film you would expect Superman to jump out with his red panties on the outside.
There is no trace of originality in here. And any drama the production team could muster is injected in here. Like the creature that is drenched in blood after a session of electric shocks.
And they spare nothing. No stereotype is too corny to be left outside.
* The gratuitous racist scene where the bad guy reveals to be bad if you had any doubts.
* The mock early 21st century Freudianism
* Women are soft, nurturing and made to breed
* Russian spies enjoying capitalism
* Late 20th century surgery, just to show how high tech the lab can be. I wonder how much the production team debated mobile phones and fingerprint readers to give the lab a more Bat Cave feel.
* Capitalists bad
* Proletarians exceptional and opressed
* the fakeness of the Franchise system
* there's even the scene where the plan is described because the script is too weak to show any of that
* there is even the whole mythology about the hidden species of the Amazons and the sinful West destroying this magical world. In this case, a creature coming from the salty waters of the Amazonian Ocean.
Even the gay phobia is so 21st century, because everything is a colorful wallpaper for an uninspired story in a world without Soviets or any of the myths the production team grew up with.