Avis des critiques

The Russo brothers’ latest Netflix venture arrives on our screens under a cloud. A $320m-sized cloud, to be precise. It’s a mind-boggling figure that makes no sense, either artistically or economically... It looks phenomenal – the quality of the special effects is exceptional. But this is soulless, emotionally inert storytelling.

It’s not a difficult film to lambaste... it’s often simultaneously self-satisfied and cloying... Ultimately, this is one of those movies where it seems okay if you like this sort of thing for a while, but after it crosses the 90-minute mark, it seems irretrievably a little much even if you like this sort of thing.

Here is a very bland and derivative sci-fi adventure from Netflix, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, freely adapted from the illustrated YA novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. It drains away the book’s thoughtful human complexity and turns it into a laminated Spielberg/Lucas knockoff with bits of Toy Story and Guardians of the Galaxy, as well as simply too many other individual borrowings to count.