Directed by Ben Falcone, Thunder Force is a superhero “comedy” that follows two childhood best friends who reunite as an unlikely crime-fighting superhero duo when one invents a formula that gives ordinary people superpowers. And I’m just going to go straight to the point and say I fucking hated this film. Yes it’s just as terrible as everyone says it is in every way possible and it was a complete waste of time and talent.
This is definitely not the worst film that Netflix has allowed to be made on their platform, and it certainly isn’t offensive, but it really shouldn’t have been made.
Superhero comedies or spoofs aren’t anything new, but what makes this one strike a nerve is that the premise actually seemed interesting, and the cast (minus Melissa McCarthy) are all very talented people who can be really funny when given the right material. And yet instead of something potentially funny we just get another god awful, terribly executed film starring unfunny Melissa McCarthy. I swear everything she’s in she’s just a parasite that sucks all the funny out of the project like a dementor from Harry Potter.
There were like only one or two jokes in this film that were funny, while the rest never lands and comes off as lazy garbage. Even with fantastic people like Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, Pom Klementieff and Bobby Canavale and all their amazing talent they were unable to carry this film in any way.
The narrative and the characters are also terrible and come off as lazy garbage. Everything is predictable from start to finish and the story just has too many plot holes and forced in events to discuss and frankly I don’t even want to get into it; clearly no one gave a shit when writing this. A lot of this feels like bad Adam Sandler, especially with the tone, poor jokes, cliche stereotypes and endless amounts of references to things that are meaningless.
And you are probably thinking that because this is a superhero film there could at least be some fun action or effects or cinematography or even music to salvage what little this movie has to offer. But nope. It’s all absolute shit. The action is boring and so forgettable throughout that I can barely even describe any of it. And the same goes for everything else, there is just nothing redeemable about this poor excuse of a superhero comedy. It is not worth the time or energy to watch. Another fucking terrible Netflix film that should be buried in the deepest hole possible. Thunder Force gets an F.
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