Sunday, February 06, 2005
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
This is fantastic movie but it des have some pretty big flaws. Sky Captain is one of those movies that the project was i think more important then the substance of the movie. The reason i say this is that Sky Captain has two claims to fame but i only found out about the second one yesterday. The first is it claims to be the first movie to be one giant special effect and the other is one of the central character has been dead for awhile.
Sky Captain is about reporter Polly Perkins(Gwyneth Paltrow) following a story about 6 missing scientist. Then while following a lead New York is attacked by giant robots. To stop this attack they call in Sky Captain (Jude Law), an aviator that runs his own army. After the first robot attack Polly and Joe the real name of the Sky Captain find themselves working together again to solve the mystery of the attacks and the missing scientists. Polly and Joe have a past which is the main story when they are searching for the robots base. Also one of there pitstops is to refuel. They do this with a friend of Joes, this freind is Frankie played by Angelina Jolie, might i say that she is the only acting bright light in this movie.
The movies looks come from the early part of the 20th century and is done with the city in drab colours almost black and whites. But this is the true strenght of the films. The back grounds are just amazing and just shows how far the special effects have come since the days of the first Star Wars in the late 70's. A personal favourite is when they chase a lead into the moutains. These shots are just unbelievable and are worth the admission.
With the aesthetic of the movie being so fantastic i was upset to see the movie was let downby the acting. Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow have zero chemistry which is such a let down cause i haven't been upset with a Gwyneth Paltrow preforance for awhile. But the acting in this movie let the whole movie down in so many ways. Though as is aid before Angelina Jolie was great but there wasn't enough to make me think otherwise about the reat of the cast. There was also the preformance of Laurence Olivier. This was put together by archive footage which is a little strange but it does have it's wow factor. The wow factor was the only thing that stopped that part being corny.
Kerry Conran the wirter/director does have something to be very proud of but it does have some pretty big flaws. But the floors are not in the parts of the film that i bet he was most excited about getting done. That would have to go to the look of the film and that in my opinion is stunning.
Rating: 7.5/10
Sky Captain is about reporter Polly Perkins(Gwyneth Paltrow) following a story about 6 missing scientist. Then while following a lead New York is attacked by giant robots. To stop this attack they call in Sky Captain (Jude Law), an aviator that runs his own army. After the first robot attack Polly and Joe the real name of the Sky Captain find themselves working together again to solve the mystery of the attacks and the missing scientists. Polly and Joe have a past which is the main story when they are searching for the robots base. Also one of there pitstops is to refuel. They do this with a friend of Joes, this freind is Frankie played by Angelina Jolie, might i say that she is the only acting bright light in this movie.
The movies looks come from the early part of the 20th century and is done with the city in drab colours almost black and whites. But this is the true strenght of the films. The back grounds are just amazing and just shows how far the special effects have come since the days of the first Star Wars in the late 70's. A personal favourite is when they chase a lead into the moutains. These shots are just unbelievable and are worth the admission.
With the aesthetic of the movie being so fantastic i was upset to see the movie was let downby the acting. Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow have zero chemistry which is such a let down cause i haven't been upset with a Gwyneth Paltrow preforance for awhile. But the acting in this movie let the whole movie down in so many ways. Though as is aid before Angelina Jolie was great but there wasn't enough to make me think otherwise about the reat of the cast. There was also the preformance of Laurence Olivier. This was put together by archive footage which is a little strange but it does have it's wow factor. The wow factor was the only thing that stopped that part being corny.
Kerry Conran the wirter/director does have something to be very proud of but it does have some pretty big flaws. But the floors are not in the parts of the film that i bet he was most excited about getting done. That would have to go to the look of the film and that in my opinion is stunning.
Rating: 7.5/10
# posted by Chris @ 9:01 AM 
