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Inhumans (2017)

Chosen by me as I go to the cinema a lot. Also I quite like the idea of supporting teevee events on the big screen. Of course that has it's downsides.

There's no real reason for this to be an IMAX event. It just highlights the flat television look and deficiencies in plot and character than if watching at home, where you might be making a cup of tea or browsing the internet at the same time this would be on.

Though perhaps not quite as bad as early reports had it, Inhumans is certainly not especially good.

It does a terrible job of answering why we should bother being interested in these characters with a very strange beginning that makes our leads arseholes (they rule over a caste system that subjugates and enforces labour on people based on genetics and show no remorse or desire to change the status quo). This seems to be Scott Bucks typical style as he came off Iron Fist which had a similar awful lead character issue to create this. 

It seems at times as if it wants to be a sort of Marvel take on Game of Thrones but forgets to cast iconic actors in engaging roles. 

It's so confused about the story it's telling that ostensible big bad Maximus is going to be the one in the right but then he turns out to be a creepy prick (obvious - as he's played by Iwan Rheon) with Medusa rejection issues.

Ken Leung's Karnak and Eme Ikwuakor's Gorgon are the general bright spots but each of them is given bits of business that mark them as arseholes the same as everybody else. 

Crystal is just the fucking worst.