2021 · comedy · action · sci-fi
Thunder Force
Directed by Ben Falcone1h 47m2021
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
Our read: Thunder Force (2021) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- epic-stakes
- funny
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How Thunder Force feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want goofy Melissa McCarthy superhero antics with friendship and mismatched powers.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if flat jokes and lazy action parody will frustrate more than entertain.
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