A collision of tones and utterly inappropriate and unwelcome ideas, dialogues and story...

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2020)

...and some disgusting and puerile wish fulfilment sandwiched between terrible appropriation of nerd culture and science fiction as drawn by a warped American teenage jock. All sponsored by Lenovo.
Yes, the transformations and effects and most of the Chicago battles are spectacular (not the janky JFK) but after nearly three hours the fatigue is real. There are some surprising horror moments with the bird thing, some great actors doing some bonkers ad-lib by the look of it, and there's an orgy of creatively mad ideas, like integrating NASA space program and going to Chernobyl, and some great practical effects.
But overall, the editing and pacing is epileptic and lurching like a kangarooing car. The 3D varies but the spottiness, lack of consistency and disregard for 3D framing makes it almost negligible if not the for the utterly bright, crisp photography unhindered completely by 3D.
I hated the second film and thought the first one was boring so while this film is the best of the original three Witwicky films, it's still completely, unquestionably terrible.