Power Rangers (2017)

Starring: Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott and RJ Cyler.

I could not be more unsatisfied with a movie than I am with the new Power Rangers. It has been a long time since the last Power Rangers movie and when I saw the trailer about a brand new film I got really excited. The morphing-time looked amazing. The special effects looked great. Even the story sounded more exciting than before. It wasn’t.

My first thought when the movie started playing was “wow, Zac Efron lost a bit of weight to look like a teenager”. Later on, I discovered it was not him, but an Australian actor called Dacre Montgomery. Then, we jump into the same old and extremely childish story. So many unexplained facts. For example, they just accepted the fact they were "rangers" without further explanations or details of what that meant.

I think what drew my eyes to go to the cinema was a piece of news I saw when scrolling through my Facebook feed, saying that the film would explore the homosexuality of one of the Rangers. And they did it, very badly. It was such an unnecessary scene that made me feel awkward and embarrassed. Nobody was talking about relationships at that point. In my opinion, they just put it in the movie to get the attention, since LGBT characters have been a hot topic everywhere.

I guess the only funny part was the giant villain Goldar: made of gold. Yes, a pretty expensive villain. And then it comes my favourite quote of the movie, said by Zack Taylor when he sees Goldar: “That's a lot of gold”.

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