I get that there are some really ridiculous superhero origin stories on how they get their powers, but this one really takes a huge suspension of disbelief. HUGE suspension of disbelief! That's the hurdle the audience will have to get over first in order to give this movie a serious commitment to watch through the whole thing. Not only that, but part of the origin story contains a rather dark event that happens to one of the characters, and that's another thing the audience will have to get over to keep watching. With all that said, the rest of the movie is more or less harmless enough.
This superhero movie doesn't do anything incredibly different than others before it. In fact, it kinda expects you to be familiar with the typical plot tropes that come with this genre of films, as it skips certain expositions that you come to expect from the superhero character. Either way, basically the premise is the typical one man secretly fights against bad people. To be honest, it's not horrible. There's a certain comfortable familiarity to the whole thing, that it's not hard to find things to like about it.
Once again though, it's that requirement to take huge leaps of faith and the suspension of disbelief that kinda constantly keeps this movie down. If it didn't take itself too seriously, I probably would have had a lot more fun with it. At least the cast that consists of Bill Milner, Maisie Williams, and Rory Kinnear, were good in it. Here's hoping that if there is a sequel to this, they'll do a much better job at it.
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