I thought there were a few obvious issues, which I was surprised weren’t changed.
There was no clear antagonist like the first film, it starts off and he’s going by after his step father which seemed like it could be great. That was done with almost immediately, he forgave the murder of his wife very quickly, and Washington didn’t emerge as the enemy until the end.
I also took issue with the man who fought so hard for the wife and child he lost in the first film, having had an affair with the princess. To me that shat on the first film.
I won’t go on but the final fight was farcical. In the first, Phoenix stabbed Crowe and the fight was even. In this a 30 year old is fighting someone nearly 70 who hasn’t fought in years. It was ridiculous and not satisfying at all.
Yes, agree with all of these! Macrinus could've been a compelling villain if they had just made it all clearer/set that up earlier instead of wasting time with the Acacius plot... and yeah, very anticlimactic final fight!
I actually still enjoyed it but I was not expecting it to surpass the first. Thought the twins were well done, their acting was good in my opinion. Would be morbidly curious to see the Nick Cave sequel he wrote.
I thought there were a few obvious issues, which I was surprised weren’t changed.
There was no clear antagonist like the first film, it starts off and he’s going by after his step father which seemed like it could be great. That was done with almost immediately, he forgave the murder of his wife very quickly, and Washington didn’t emerge as the enemy until the end.
I also took issue with the man who fought so hard for the wife and child he lost in the first film, having had an affair with the princess. To me that shat on the first film.
I won’t go on but the final fight was farcical. In the first, Phoenix stabbed Crowe and the fight was even. In this a 30 year old is fighting someone nearly 70 who hasn’t fought in years. It was ridiculous and not satisfying at all.
Yes, agree with all of these! Macrinus could've been a compelling villain if they had just made it all clearer/set that up earlier instead of wasting time with the Acacius plot... and yeah, very anticlimactic final fight!
I actually still enjoyed it but I was not expecting it to surpass the first. Thought the twins were well done, their acting was good in my opinion. Would be morbidly curious to see the Nick Cave sequel he wrote.