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Ghostbusters (2016)
4/10
Decided on a whim to go see this, and it was awful. For a summer comedy action flick it misses a lot of its beats and takes forever to ramp up. I'm incredibly surprised the movie seems to be catering more towards kids, yet seems like one of the talkiest, dialogue heavy Ghostbusters released. It wouldn't be a problem if it had great jokes, but the dialogue falls flat and every shot seems to be framed and blocked the same. Every decent gag or scene is already in the trailers.
Leslie Jones is great, Kristen Wiig is OK, and Kate McKinnon has some good moments. Chris Hemsworth is quite funny and Charles Dance in his small role is always fantastic. The cameos of the original movie actors (not a spoiler, they've been promoting their cameos on talk shows) all feel forced, lifeless, and unnecessary.
Really my biggest problems with it are the script (particularly the pacing and long gaps of plot movement), unimaginative and humourless dialogue, the cinematography of long talky scenes, and the jarring intersplicing of unrelated cameos. At my half full theater showing at metrotown several people walked out in the first hour.
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