Quest to Save Rocket
Somewhere along the way, I got behind on Marvel movies again (and newer movies in general). Part of it is the cable movies I’ve been watching. But part of it is pure laziness. I wasn’t going to see stuff in the theater and I wasn’t even trying to catch it on streaming. But I’m trying to catch up now. We’ll see how long it lasts, right?
All of that to say that I finally sat down to watch Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. And I may have found another reason why I let myself get behind.
When this movie opens, it finds the Guardians on a planet, trying to recover from a recent, devastating loss that has hit their leader, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), especially hard. But when an outside force attacks, leaving Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) fighting for his life, Peter and the rest jump into action to try to find a way to save him. But the only way forward is going to put them on the radar of a truly evil man. Will this mission cost all of them their lives?
As I was watching this movie, the biggest thing I struggled with was the fact that I didn’t care. I mean, you know where the story is going to go, the only question is the how. Now, I will confess that a couple of things along the way did surprise me, but most of the big questions fell into this predictability.
It also didn’t help that we had extended flashbacks finally filling us in on how Rocket became the racoon we all know and love. I will give them this, it was definitely relevant to this story. But I still felt like we could have gotten that same information in less time. Considering the movie is two and a half hours long, finding something to leave on the cutting room floor would have been nice. Then again, it wouldn’t have given Bradley Cooper as much to voice in the movie. I feel like one purpose of these many flashback scenes was to show how truly evil the villain was, but we got that from the modern storyline. We really didn’t need to devote as much time to the flashbacks as we got.
I think another part of the problem was that we just had too much randomness in the film. Some of the stops along the way felt weird just to be weird. Maybe these stops served a purpose, but it just felt like a chance to visit another alien planet.
Now, I will give the film this – the effects looked good to me. Sadly, we can’t always say that about modern special effects. And the acting was all good.
And this isn’t to say that the film was bad. I did get drawn in. I found the action scenes lots of fun. And a few moments of humor made me smile and chuckle. But it wasn’t enough to really make me feel like I’ve missed anything by waiting this long to watch the movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 definitely continues the struggles that Mavel has had in the post Endgame era. It’s not that this is a bad film. But I’m also not sorry I haven’t watched it sooner.
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