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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1542928" data-attributes="member: 633">Oh, it would be strained. Just not broken. It's a vote I can understand, not one that I can approve. I can understand a big fan of action movies giving a 9 in a fit of excitement right after coming out of the room as the utmost limit of vague reasonability.Mmh... yeah, I think I could probably understand a 3 as well. Not less than that, though. It may have a holey plot, no memorable dialogue and very simple characters, but the settings and scenography were exceptional IMO and most of the action scenes were quite good. I think that going below 3/4 means forgetting that this is supposed to be a light, spectacular, action movie. Every flick must be judged within its genre, after all. Good action scenes and enough plot to keep them together provided that you don't think too much about it is enough to warrant at least a 3 or 4 for a mindless-action movie (and allow me one last rave for the scenography, it was good, rich in details, I really dig it). If this was supposed to be a dramatic movie, of course, I would rank it somewhere in the neighbourhood of -2. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1542928, member: 633"] Oh, it would be strained. Just not broken. It's a vote I can [i]understand[/i], not one that I can approve. I can understand a big fan of action movies giving a 9 in a fit of excitement right after coming out of the room as the utmost limit of vague reasonability.Mmh... yeah, I think I could probably [i]understand[/i] a 3 as well. Not less than that, though. It may have a holey plot, no memorable dialogue and very simple characters, but the settings and scenography were exceptional IMO and most of the action scenes were quite good. I think that going below 3/4 means forgetting that this is supposed to be a light, spectacular, action movie. Every flick must be judged within its genre, after all. Good action scenes and enough plot to keep them together provided that you don't think too much about it is enough to warrant at least a 3 or 4 for a mindless-action movie (and allow me one last rave for the scenography, it was [i]good[/i], rich in details, I really dig it). If this was supposed to be a dramatic movie, of course, I would rank it somewhere in the neighbourhood of -2. :D [/QUOTE]

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