Story (Spoilers!)
This film opens with a bank robber, Gasback, being thwarted by his traitorous sidekicks and a man named Vash, causing him to use incendiary devices on parts of the town, including its power plant. Twenty years pass and the sidekick had used his money to rebuild the plant and become mayor. He has insured his giant bronze statue and fears, rightfully, that Gasback will try to steal it, and gathers bounty hunters to kill Gasback for his $300 million bounty. Among these are Amelia (a new character), Vash, Milly Thompson, and Meryl Stryfe. While Gasback is playing poker, he is attacked by the police and protected by Wolfwood, who owes him for saving his life in a desert. Vash continues creeping on Amelia, going with her to a bar and meeting Milly and Meryl before a fight breaks out. No worries, Vash the pacifist steals everyone’s bullets. Gasback comes to town the next morning and everyone tries to kill him, but he manages to break into the mayor’s house and threaten him. Again thwarted by Vash, he finds the mayor elsewhere and steals everything he has to make up for the robbery 20 years prior, including the power plant. He escapes with it and Vash is shot in the ensuing chase. Thinking Vash is dead, Amelia and Wolfwood hunt Gasback down and Deus Ex Vash saves the day, bringing down Gasback. Amelia, revealing that she is Gasback’s daughter, chooses not to kill him, inspired by Vash. Turns out, if Vash hadn’t spared Gasback during the robbery, Amelia wouldn’t have been born. Fun.
My Review
Apologies for not posting recently, I had been working on my 25-page capstone (I was only allowed to move forward with my outline literally two weeks ago ffs) and a mountain of other such stumbling blocks. That aside, I am trying to catch up so I’ll be pumping out some regrettable decisions. One of these regrettable decisions was watching this film, a poorly-paced sequel to a show that I have not seen, starring a character that I hate. Although having seen this, I will assume that all I’m missing is how characters know each other and their motivations.
First of all, this film is fun. It’s thoughtless and weak, but it’s fun. In terms of the bare bones of a film, a standard plot structure is all that is to be found. I cannot attest to the characters before this film, but the only one with any sort of development was Amelia, whose character arc works well. Her motivations for changing were flat out stupid, but at least these events brought about a change of heart that was thematically appropriate and integral to the plot. The voice acting is standard, the writing is pretty poor, but I have come to expect this from whatever scrapings I pull up from the bottom of the barrel on a free streaming service.
Literally nothing about this film is of note. I will forget everything about it within the day, and I cannot recommend this less unless you have seen the show already, or you are mildly inebriated and want to watch something fun. And even then you’re likely to be disappointed. I genuinely hated every second of watching this. It doesn’t have enough egregious structural offenses to be bad, but nothing truly noteworthy either. It just exists. You could certainly do better with your time.
5/10
Also, apologies for the insubstantial review. But this is the most painfully mediocre movie I have seen in years, and as such there is nothing to talk about for it. Again, don’t waste your time. There are good action movies, and there are bad action movies. Both would be more entertaining than this.
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