After decades of development hell, Amazon MGM Studios spent big on reviving one of Mattel’s IPs and… largely faltered.
In what could have been a taut, what-if scenario of a sudden nuclear attack with only minutes left for a countermeasure, the otherwise stacked cast and a propulsive first act can’t sustain their momentum to justify the movie’s three-perspective narrative angle.
Rinko Kikuchi will be teaming with an impressive cast for a Del Toro film.