Really? I may have to see this.
Fight smart, not fair.I saw it, and although there wasn't any particular investment in the characters, it's smart enough not to piss you off and the action scenes are really good. I mean, at the end of the movie, you feel a bit shaken, because they're so damned exciting and tense. Brad Bird knows how to do a good action scene, that's for sure. Actually, I wish he had focused less on the characters - when the movie tries to tug at your heartstrings it really doesn't induce much of a response. Except the guy played by Simon Pegg, who thankfully didn't get some kind of emotional arc shoehorned in and just stuck to being very funny.
I think my favorite sequence was the projector one.
Oh but don't go in expecting anything plausible. It doesn't care much for realism.
edited 18th Jan '12 10:07:43 PM by Sporkaganza
Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.Realism isn't something I particularly care about. I am a firm believer in supporting films that are moving toward doing things the way I want, and not having a Love Interest is one of them.
Fight smart, not fair.There's not a love interest, but there are a couple romantic things going on that really don't add anything at all. Luckily they're in the background (and they're all about failed romance, interestingly).
Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.It's also not romance for the sake of romance, it's about being affected when people you love are hurt or killed.
The main thing that Brad Bird seems to do very well is that he makes the action sequences flow fluidly from the story, rather than the "We haven't had action in five minutes, what can we do to fix that?" mentality.
My favorite sequence was the entire Dubai part, Wall Crawling using iffy glue gloves was dizzyingly awesome and the dual meeting infiltration was the scenario most worthy of title "mission impossible."

Best part - no romantic subplot brutally shoehorned in.
Watch out where you step, or we'll be afoot.