At the level you want it to be: Elba frantically punching a lion.
Category: adventure
It’s still an overstuffed show, but in building up the relationships audiences truly care about, season 3’s existential musings become time well spent.
A bitter disappointment because, while it brings the dinosaurs, it fails to tell a solid story.
Wanders from MCU standards without completely losing the trail, and every strange cranny it finds proves enlivening.
No, the myth that superhero movies have to choose between being bombastic, money-making productions or contemplative allegories is just that, a myth, and Zhao had the potential to bring the false dichotomy crashing down. Unfortunately, the picture she’s made may just reinforce it.
Jungle Cruise is not the artistically devoid offering you may have feared, but it’s not stretching itself to be anything too great, either. Instead, it settles for being a lark, and its winning cast nails the frivolous good time it aims to be.
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