An average movie

I had no idea what to expect from this flick but I was in the mood in watching something completely different and since this movie was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. The main reason I wanted to watch the damned thing was because the animation seemed to be really neat and, indeed, we have come a long way since ‘Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within’, the first CGI animated motion picture with photo-realistic characters, was released already 20 years ago. Indeed, in this area, this movie was quite impressive, even if it was maybe slightly overwhelming during the action scenes because it was going so fast with so many details and so much stuff happening at every corner of the screen. Concerning the story, well, it wasn’t so successful, I’m afraid. I mean, it was not bad but the whole thing was basically based on some rather convoluted Chinese mythology and, to be honest, I’m not sure I followed half of the story. And, yet, the more I think about it, the more I believed that the damned thing had some potential. Indeed, there was an intriguing dark undercurrent because Nezha was actually some kind of violent and egocentric god responsible for many innocent deaths through his various reincarnations. Unfortunately, the whole thing was just so damned messy and unfocused, they never went deeper in this interesting direction. Concerning the characters, some of them were actually pretty cool and/or entertaining (especially this monkey with 6 ears who might have been some Monkey King after all) but they were probably too many of them and, eventually, none of them was actually really developed whatsoever. Anyway, to conclude, even though the damned thing never really convinced me, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre or if you want to watch something really different.