Ant-Man (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña
Synopsis:
A cat burglar is recruited by a scientist to reclaim a dangerous piece of technology before it is misappropriated, by using a specially designed suit that shrinks the wearer to the size of an ant.
Review:
This expansion of the Marvel dramatis personae is played pretty much as light comedy and opts for a more unpretentious standard widescreen presentation. Rudd is an engagingly self-deprecating hero, and Stoll a correspondingly understated foil. Douglas, meanwhile, is superb, anchoring the whole in the seriousness of a personal reality while dropping acerbic asides as only he knows how. And Peña provides light relief, if any more were needed. The tone of a Men in Black, therefore, but the fact that it nevertheless integrates well with the franchise says much for the consistency of execution and conviction that characterise these films.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña
Synopsis:
A cat burglar is recruited by a scientist to reclaim a dangerous piece of technology before it is misappropriated, by using a specially designed suit that shrinks the wearer to the size of an ant.
Review:
This expansion of the Marvel dramatis personae is played pretty much as light comedy and opts for a more unpretentious standard widescreen presentation. Rudd is an engagingly self-deprecating hero, and Stoll a correspondingly understated foil. Douglas, meanwhile, is superb, anchoring the whole in the seriousness of a personal reality while dropping acerbic asides as only he knows how. And Peña provides light relief, if any more were needed. The tone of a Men in Black, therefore, but the fact that it nevertheless integrates well with the franchise says much for the consistency of execution and conviction that characterise these films.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña
Synopsis:
A cat burglar is recruited by a scientist to reclaim a dangerous piece of technology before it is misappropriated, by using a specially designed suit that shrinks the wearer to the size of an ant.
Review:
This expansion of the Marvel dramatis personae is played pretty much as light comedy and opts for a more unpretentious standard widescreen presentation. Rudd is an engagingly self-deprecating hero, and Stoll a correspondingly understated foil. Douglas, meanwhile, is superb, anchoring the whole in the seriousness of a personal reality while dropping acerbic asides as only he knows how. And Peña provides light relief, if any more were needed. The tone of a Men in Black, therefore, but the fact that it nevertheless integrates well with the franchise says much for the consistency of execution and conviction that characterise these films.