Ant Man
Visuals
THe visuals were fantastic, special effects are getting better everyday and with every improvement of the marvel franchise, they are never slowing down. The visuals for Ant Man were on a much smaller scale, THis is the most realistic marvel film that they’ve made. All of the other marvel films have been set in over the top action scene with aliens/robots/systems fighting against each other. The repercussions of say Avengers Age of Ultron where a portion of a town hurdling towards earth and an alarming rate that it lead to extinction of the entire planet. With Ant man, The repercussions aren’t so drastic because they’ve been scaled down. Obviously the characters could die but us as a species isn’t threatened by this down-scaled marvel super hero adventure.
One of the fight scenes were set around the thomas the tank engine playset and they were fantastic, i’ve never actually laughed at a fight scene. Up close, Ant Man is dodging everything that’s thrown at him and especially the thomas the tank engine train coming steaming towards him, resulting in death. THe camera quickly zooms out and shows that the train just falling off the track.
Story
The Story of Ant Man was a natural hero's tale, The hero in question doesn’t know/incapable of being a superhero and then somewhere out of the blue obtains these abilities from a suit or an injection. On this occasion he obtains these abilities from a suit. Paul Rudd plays Paul Rudd and you may be saying that sounds stupid but if you’ve ever seen two films with Paul Rudd in them, you’ll know what i’m talking about. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has been in and out of prisons for most of his life, for Armed robberies, Breaking and entering etc and during the start of the film, he’s just being released from prison. he gets fired from baskin robbins for being an Ex-Con. he gets back to his apartment where his roommate and his friends are there and they speak of a score that’s locked away in a highly protected safe. Scott then becomes an engineer, a crafty and scientist and there’s no explanation of where he gets these skills from...Anyway. he breaks open this safe and there’s nothing in the safe...except this suit so instead of leaving with nothing, he decides to make the good out of a bad situation and take the suit. He puts on the suit and there’s no buttons on the suit right near where his thumbs lie. he presses both of these buttons and he shrinks down to...you guessed it, the size of an ant. This is where Michael Douglas comes into play. Michael Douglas now uses Scott Lang for his breaking in skills, throw some baddies in there and you’ve got the rest of the plot of the movie.
Performance
The more you think about the film, the more you think that Paul Rudd playing Ant Man is just basically playing the same character like he does in every film he’s been in. Which isn’t a bad thing, Paul Rudd Playing as Ant Man, was kind of the sarcastic wit and the comedic role that it close to Ryan Reynolds playing as Deadpool. Obviously nothing can beat deadpool in his wit but no other marvel superhero other than deadpool and Ant Man has that banter.
Conclusion
Ant Man was a thrilling film and i’d happily watch it again and not to see what easter eggs are in there but also pick up on story arcs that i might not has seen before. Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd work well together as a team. you’ve even got the weird advert that was used to promote ant man.
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