Author: Devon Pack

It is more difficult to measure the median and the middling than it is to explain the excellent or the execrable. There is versatility in the language for the superlatives and the extremes; it is more difficult to engage with the entertainment that does not provoke.

I’m having difficulty reviewing this film after only one sitting. It’s engaging but not entertaining, urgent, evocative of other dark contemporary Westerns like No Country for Old Men or Sicario but somehow even grimmer and less fun

It’s a summer popcorn film, silly and unserious, a better than middling superhero flick that is made for fans of Silver Age Superman.

M3gan 2.0 is like so many products in this day and age: sufficient but never really superseding expectations, too glib and plastic to ever shock or to surprise.

Hate it or love it, but this is an essential and definitive film of the superhero genre, and one that speaks more to the zeitgeist of the 00s which have enabled our present dystopia

I didn’t feel like I wasted my money, but I also wouldn’t spend money to see it again.