So he wasn't impressed either then. While the film is rubbish I can't say I particularly agree with most of Kermodes reasons why it's rubbish.
This whole thing about the costumes and the strip club and whether or not the film is misogynistic is irrelevant because 95% of the film doesn't even happen. To a much lesser extent the Matrix films suffer from the same problem. All the flashy action sequences are just bits of data in a computer.
One thing I think Mark Kermode was absolutely spot on with though - how can you take that many individual elements, pretty girls in skimpy gear fighting monsters and robots and Nazis with explosions and gunfire going off everywhere and end up with something so so boring?
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