Lighting Thief Review and my general thoughts about movie.

"People say its nice."

Xuan Zhi says its not very nice. The action scenes, okay~ They were done pretty neat, tho no 1337 fighting/kungfu skillz shown, jus simple, exciting, action scenes done well. Well except that in times it didn make sense. Like how the water guy, owned the girl who lived her whole life in the 'wadeva camp' training n training, without training. Oh cos he touched the water? Ok i buy that.

Plot? The world is in danger, and it needs to be saved. And it was saved. Ok to be honest it was presented in a enjoyable way. But when u start to take a closer look, hmmm. First why are they training to fight with swords and bows? Wun guns work fine? So only the magical swords and bows work against the mythical creatures? Well not like they explained it but wadeva, i buy that too. But why are they training in the first place? Preparing for Ragnarok? Oh wait, thats a different mythology... Wadeva, training, yes training, defend against danger frm unexpected mythical creatures.

Zeus set a deadline, for the thief to return the bolt, or else there shall be war. ppl think its the water boy who stole the bolt.

What makes ppl think its the water boy? Who is responsible?

And so i tot this movie is gonna be about the water boy leveling up experience and his tough journey to Mount Olympus, fighting all sorts of nonsense in his trip, den fighting the final boss and end of story. But no, he dun even need to level up.

So he is in danger. Take him to the camp, and train him. He receives no training, and was thrown into a practice fight, grp fight summore. He altho faces some difficulties, but eventually owned one of the better fighters ard, without training.

How is that possible? Why?

Neways the movie tried to be smart, the plot didn advance as i tot it will. He decide to chu stunt. He want to rescue his mom frm hades, instead of looking for zeus to convince him to not start a war. He thinks that nice guy hades will let his mom go when he realise he gt the wrong guy.

Neways he decide to leave ultimately. And we saw no efforts made to bring him back.

It was said that, hades will jus kill the water boy and his mom even if he realise he was mistaken. And with the SUSPECT dead, and with no clues of where the bolt is, isnt the war all but certain?

So they all jus relac. He followed his instinct and everything will solve by themselves.

Neways, how the hell did zeus lose his bolt anyway?

Den the lighting thief, damn heng ah. He didn even look for the water to deliver the bolt to hades. The water boy came by himself.

He didn even deliberately frame the water boy so that he will eventually come to the camp. And didn deliberately tip hades that the boy have the bolt. So that Hades will kidnap his mother to exchange for the bolt. So that water boy will try to find a way to the underworld, which eventually lead to the waterboy coming to find the lightning thief himself. It all happened coincidentally.

Not like the lighting thief had any 1337 skillz cept a pair of flying boots. And with that he stole zeus' bolt...

Ok his adventure to collect the 3 jewels was quite interesting. Tho the action scenes... hmmm simple but enjoyable.

Hades kena owned by his wife with the bolt. And the water boy can parry away lightning bolts frm the lighting thief. Hmm i guess this shows the difference in ability? I wonder wad training he did which made him so skillful.

2 mins to travel that huge distance. I guess time must move real slow in Olympus. Seriously, cant they say he gt 20mins more?

And peace is ensured. He returns to the camp, to train to fight, for wad? So he can protect himself frm random mythical creatures. Hey since when he needed training? At the most jus carry a water jerry can or something.

I think im complaining too much. But i know im nt blindly biased against movies cos there are movies that i enjoy so much i brought the dvds to support whoever responsible for producing it. Its not like i only watch anime and deny movies -.-

The problem with movies is that its so short, there is limited time to squeeze alot of things inside. No time for leveling up, no time for development of relationship, no time for fillers, no time for anything. Only gt time for summary.

I guess the only thing i can say is, without love it cannot be seen. I jus dun like watching movie in general, thats why i always find faults in movie and overlook the good parts. But i still recognise a good movie when i see one, or maybe jus my taste is different frm others =D.

Do u like forest gump? I do.