I didn't buy into this movie at all. There just wasn't enough explanation as to the secrete society and all of that, that everything just felt tacked on instead of actual world or mythology building. The whole concept seemed lifted from all kinds of other nerd related things and it never felt wholly original and has a photo copied feel to it. See the first Matrix for a movie that lifts a lot of things from other other movies, books, comics, and media related things but yet has an original feel to it.
And that feeling dominates the whole movie. Characters never seem real but more card board cliched from all kinds of other movies. Angelia Jolie seems to be playing some variation of herself from previous films. McAvoy characters really felt like Ed Norton's character from Fight Club only not anywhere near as interesting.
The one thing I did like from this movie was seeing Chris Pratt. He actually had an interesting part (a small part but amusing none-the-less). The song Pina Colada even crops up in the film, giving the whole Christ Pratt and the song a kind of Guardians of the Galaxy prologue kind of feel. I know this is unintentional but it brought a smile to my face as I noticed it.
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