Review of Max Steel (2016) by Skeptic303 — 03 Nov 2016

Where do I even begin right now with this movie? Perhaps I should start with the mindset of the people on set. Word is that they wanted this movie to be PG, but they lost the appeal. Perhaps if they cut out the image of someone pulling out a piece of glass from their leg, maybe this movie would have been PG-rated. While I painfully go through this review, keep in mind that these are the people we're dealing with. Their thought process appears to be topsy-turvy.

Max Steel is the thankfully ill-fated adaptation of a line of action figure toys brought to us by Mattel, and if I had to sum up the plot, I would point to Transformers (2007), saying that the two movie have a rather similar plot (not the same, but somewhat similar). Good grief, this movie is cinematic cyanide through and through.

The plotline is continually stupid, followed by the cinematography, which is even worse (especially during one particular scene where the camera couldn't stop cutting from one place to another every 10 or so seconds). The characters are not only bland, but inert and completely weak. Yet, the movie expects me to like a romance between two characters that proves to be even more bland, formulaic, and stupid. These issues are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems with this sci-fi time-waster. Even a 12 minute video rant won't be enough for me to summarize this atrocity that deliberately pursued the Golden Raspberry Awards with a seal of disavowal.