"Hunnam, all too Hunnam."
—Friedrich's Moving-Picture Reviews

BEDEVERE: But you are dressed as a cephalodian witch-siren.

Downey put in the effort but was just a very poor choice for Holmes. He's all wrong physically, he's preoccupied with his accent the whole time, and his brand of snark doesn't play right. I haven't watched much of the tv show, but Cucumberpatch seems much better suited to the role.

They manage some good scenes on the periphery, but the central story is godawful. The script is weak, the acting doesn't help, and Gere is a joke.

Also, the trail clearly turns the corner and heads down the hill to more-or-less the place THE BEAR JUST WENT (and turning around and going uphill wouldn't buy them much distance), so the guy in the video is thinking more clearly than the AV Club here.

Yeah, that's the historically inaccurate part.

Man from UNCLE largely accomplished what it set out to do, I think. Didn't quite stick the landing, but overall it's the epitome of a charming movie. The direction, editing, acting, soundtrack, everything was on point. It's a fully-modernised throwback. (Also, it's interesting as a glimpse of the direction the…

Dibs on Richard "Fighting Dick" Anderson.

Not sure when it's set, but probably the whole movie would be in a different language if the dialogue were period-accurate anyway.

I like the kind of story that imagines how a legend could be based on historical elements. A straight-up Camelot-in-shining-armor (or Bible-and-sandals, or toga gods, or Dracula) movie is, at this point, probably just going to look like an assemblage of archetypes that have been used, recycled, beaten into the ground,…

That's hardly fair. There's always going to be war. She just ended the problems with Germany.

I'll just ask a question that technically isn't even about the movie: How's the soundtrack? I ask because the music in this trailer is very wrong.

DC is so desaturated you'd think they're trying to make the first homeopathic films.

Yeah, the choice of music is awful. Seems like the kind of thing Zack Snyder might choose (and this movie's already behind the eight ball in terms of how much input Snyder has had). But it may be a trailer decision that has little to do with the movie.

She can fly anywhere she wants.

Yeah, it looks like WW is going to be embarrassingly out-acted by young WW. (Of course, it also looks like she'll be out-acted by most of the extras and perhaps some of the more talented props…)

He's basically in the Owen Wilson role to WW's Jackie Chan, which I think is probably the best they can do given the casting. Or the Jim Belushi to her Schwarzenegger, to be more precise.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

Probably no one will ever read this, but having seen the movie after avoiding it for a while based largely on this review, I have to note that the review is misleading, particularly with regard to the tone/message of the movie about morality/practicality in extremity.

The fundamental problem with the sequels was that the first movie completed the SuperJesusBuddha story and the sequels just pretended that hadn't happened.