I feel awful for Taylor Swift. Guy gets put in films that are unjustly torched. I cant write his actual last name because it positions my tongue in a way that induces vomit. Don't get me wrong, I find him to be a very good actor. He was the third best part of that awful Wolverine movie (behind Ryan Reynolds and that intro), he was very good in John Carter and now here. He was a solid lead. I was with it, man. He had me with that chicken burrito stunt and nailed that little never-in-too-big-a-rush-to-help-a-kid-learn bit.
The movie itself was actually very entertaining. The action was ridiculous, over the top, unnecessary, illogical and heavily inspired by Transformers, but for a movie about a board game? Well done. It rode that line of taking itself as seriously as a story while knowingly accepting the absurdity that it is in fact based on a board game. I especially applaud it for acknowledging the monumental death count. Something previous movies (even far superior ones like The Avengers) don't fully accomplish. (Lets not forget how Fast Five nonchalantly genocided all of Rio De Genaro.)
8 out of 10.
