The Good:
The Actors playing Maximus and Black Bolt.
Maximus actually comes off seemingly insane, rather than willfully ignorant (as most other actors tend to approach that type of role). One gets the impression that Maximus actually believes whats coming out of his mouth.
As for Black Bolt, if the silent film era has taught us anything, its that a good performance can be given with just looks alone. Though Black Bolt doesnt have much of anything to do, he does it well. Its a good thing that a picture is worth a thousand words, because thats all that the actor has to work with.
The Plot.
Pretty standard fare. Revolution, sibling rivalry, fish out of water, its serviceable enough.
Lockjaw.
His inclusion is nice (in that hes probably the hardest bit to pull off, both from a technical perspective and a believability perspective). However, would it not have been cheaper (and more effective) just to use a real dog and finesse the visuals to make him big, rather than go through the effort of making him CGI?
The Bad:
Production values.
I think I saw those moon colony backgrounds on an old Superman serial from the 40s
And those costumes
Its not mean mouthing anyone to say that Ive seen better ones made for Comic-Con. And then theres Medusas hair. Oh, the hair
The Ugly:
The acting.
With the exception of the two aforementioned performers, the rest of the cast was just bad. And it cant be laid at the feet of the dialogue either. The performances were wooden to the extreme. One could almost hear the actors and actresses thinking Im going to kill my agent for this.
Overall, it was a lackluster first impression, and one can see why the idea got demoted from Marvels next big thing in the feature film line. If it has one thing going for it, it would be that the bar has been set mighty low, and as such, means there can be almost nowhere to go but up.
