Ant-Man

Ant-Man is a huge surprise for me this year. As one of this year's few blockbusters, it didn't impress me much with its trailer, it was very sterile and uninteresting and was a shoo-in for the weakest Marvel movie, but oh how wrong I was. Ant-Man is very creative, inventive, overly funny to the point I was sorry I couldn't roll on the carpet in the cinema (that was taken care of by the discovery of Michael Peña, every time he was on screen he put a smile on my face). The action is clear, detailed and I've not had the opportunity to see action from this perspective anywhere before, so it was pleasantly refreshing. Paul Rudd portrays an ordinary guy, he's no chiseled model, but just an ordinary struggling father who has bad luck, you can easily relate to him being a likable guy. Evangeline Lilly is a seductive and promising babe, Michael Douglas is actually the only acting class in Ant-Man with an amazing facelift at the beginning, and Corey Stoll, I have a minor complaint about this guy, he didn't really stand out for me as the villain (he didn't have much room either), Marvel has pulled out bigger aces in this area. But anyway I dare say Ant-Man is the funniest and most entertaining Marvel movie ever. The highlight is definitely the unusual finale and Scott's heist skills. (17/07/2015)

Are you going to believe me when I say it really took me a while to get used to the Ant-Man? At first, I thought the story started pretty quickly. Then I thought that it is really stupid and if not for the actors, I would not watch the whole thing. And towards the finale I was just wondering that the creators clearly must have taken some LSD, because they managed to come up with so many ideas that not all creators can fit into single movie. In the end, I have to admit I was pretty satisfied with this Marvel movie, as along with the premise the creators came up with a lot of original stunts, which made the scenes unforgettable. And even if someone ignored that, because there is a thin line between these feelings, I believe nobody would just ignore Evangeline Lilly with her dark bob. Not only did I not recognize her, but she was also unbelievably hot. And that’s the way it’s supposed to be. (29/12/2015)

Marvel saves the world for the thirty-sixth time, in the same story template, just by slightly different means and with more jokes. And that’s what they want to keep serving us for the next years. There’s nothing wrong with this movie, it just has nothing new to offer me. But the acting’s pleasant and the technical aspect perfect in the traditional Marvel fashion. The de-aged Michael Douglas is even better than the de-aged Schwarzenegger was in Terminator Genisys, it’s chilling. (17/07/2015)

The opening flashback from 1989 was a delight and so were Peg and Pym's acting performances, but the rest of the film was just a targeted rinsing. Unfortunately, only Douglas continued acting and he had no equal partners, so we had to make do with the epic battle with the machine Thomas. But so be it. The MCU continues ever onward. (16/07/2015)

This is the least uniform Marvel movie material, with the original creator peeking out at you from every other scene. It’s in the hands of an old hand fulfilling a studio assignment that clearly meant stepping on the gas in family values and withdrawing his hand on a miniature goofing around (the parrot model run and the train finale literally scream for extra minutes). The protagonists, pure as lilies (the scars from the past are more so cosmetic, without the need to dissect them more), are quite boring, and Michael Peña's sidekick is the best. 3 ½. (08/11/2015)