I argue, as I have in the past, that the Russo Brothers have not yet made a good movie. Their films are always bombastic and go through the motions of what a blockbuster film is supposed to be but lack any real substance or authentic emotional resonance. People get distracted by the Marvel characters in their movies and ignore the failings of those films. But when those beloved characters are missing (like in The Grey Man or this film) it becomes a bit more obvious just how hollow their work tends to be.
Even more disappointing for The Electric State than just being a rote, cliched tent pole rip off, is that the Russo apparently jettisoned the story from the novel this is based on to come up with this blandness. Supposedly the source material is quite innovative and meaningful and yet they chose to go with this… another knock on their judgment.
It’s not that the Electric State is bad. I’ve seen a lot worse. It’s that it isn’t very good. It never establishes anything honest, instead relying on our assumptions to fill in its blanks and hoping we’ll project our own emotional state onto its paint by numbers plot (in the way people did with their equally mechanical End Game.
Sadly they are moving on to direct MORE Marvel films after this cause it appears all we want is the most pedantic and emotionally vacuous blockbusters we can get these days.
The Electric State
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Giancarlo Esposito, Stanley Tucci
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writers: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
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