Westworld gif machine4/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The film only once or twice has even vague tension and certainly nowhere near the degree that the plot demanded. However, the extent of the threat is never translated to the film and the ending is terrible far too muted to have even the faintest relation to the plot we were being sold just a few minutes before. It does have some good scenes but, ironically enough, these feature between the duplicated characters rather than being the effect shots that the producers were clearly banking on being the business side of the film. ![]() The second half is a marked improvement but, by then, a lot of damage had been done and a flurry of action and conspiracy was not quite enough to make it a good film. This is a terrible first hour because the special effects at best are superimposed men painted red and green to look like holographic chess pieces and, at worst a laughable moment where people sky down the red dust on Mars on rather, they ski down a normal mountain but the whole scene is shot through a red filter! That is not a special effect and even in 1976 I doubt that these 'effects' were enough to stop audiences from getting bored in the first half of the movie. ![]() The first half of the film drags like a chain smoker and it seems happy to just bang out sequences that we are supposed to go 'wow' at simply because they involve special effects or robots. In defence of the film it does try to do something with the plot and widens it out into a bigger, potentially better conspiracy story but for some reason it fails to really engage. Having enjoyed the Jurassic Park rehearsal that was Westworld, I tuned in to this sequel hoping for, at very least, more of same stuff with a clever new slant on it. Looking for dirt under the surface, Browning and colleague Ballard join the elite group selected for the opening few days at the park and begin to investigate a world where nothing is what it seems nothing. Chuck Browning, the journalist who originally broke the Westworld story, is approached by a mysterious man who has information on this new park but he is killed before he can tell his story. Years after the failure of Westworld, the same company have regrouped and are planning to open the same theme park again but improved and totally safe. ![]()
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