Power Rangers (2017)

Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin, Becky G, Bill Hader and Bryon Cranston.

Director: Dean Israelite

Release Date: 2017

Running Time: 2hrs 3 minutes

Genre: Action/Sci Fi

Rating: 12

Synopsis:

Five high school students must learn to harness their supernatural abilities in order to save the world! 

Jason is always landing himself in trouble when he makes friends with detention buddy Billy.After attempting to blow up a mine Jason and others find themselves with supernatural abilities. They are the new generation of Power Rangers! They must learn to harness their abilities to save the world from Rita Repulsa. I'll be brutally honest. I didn't have high hopes for this film. So many remakes these days, don't live up to the original movies. I found this to be one of them. It is a reboot of the original series and is not at all related to the movies made twenty years prior. The thing that annoyed me the most wasn't so much the actors, but how ridiculously long it took to show them as Power Rangers! Naturally, you don't want to be shown too much too soon, however at the same time, you shouldn't have to wait almost an hour to be introduced to the main characters properly.

My first impression was that it reminded me a bit too much of the latest instalment of the "Fantastic Four", which also flopped at the box office. I couldn't relate to the characters at all. Writer John Gatins, went into far much detail about the characters themselves, that he almost steered completely away from the original storyline. Scenes of the students sat in detention went into more detail then it really needed too, I found myself getting bored in the first thirty minutes. By all means explain the characters backstory's, but it doesn't need to drag on and on to the point where audiences find themselves bored. I expected to see a Power Rangers movie! So show me a Power Ranger movie!

Dacre Montgomery who plays Jason (Red Ranger) delivers the strongest performance out all the others actors, even then it's not particularly fantastic. I found Naomi Scott's character Kimberly (Pink Ranger), to be incredibly annoying and very cliched. Director Dean Israelite, obviously assumed that everyone in his audience knew who Rita Repulsa was? What about for those that aren't so familiar? Apart from a tiny scene at the beginning, almost nothing was explained about her character. I went in expecting a really fun and action packed film. Sadly what I got was a very boring and dragged out movie. The actors portraying the power rangers really lacked in chemistry and looked a mess on screen together.

Cinematographer Matthew T. Lloyd captured the tone of the film very well, however again it reminded me too much of "The Fantastic Four", although the special effects were very clever in places, it also looked very cheesy and poor. I love that the Power Rangers costumes were upgraded! It suited each characters fantastically! I love the attention to detail that went into Rita Repulsa's character, it's just a shame that her final scene at the end looks so cheesy and messy and outside a "Krispy Kreme" store, seriously? I was so looking forward to hearing the original theme song too, only to hear it played once during the final scene. I think if played a few more times through out the course of the movie, it would have added emphasis to a few scenes, making them all the more exciting.

Perfect for die hard Power Rangers fans, otherwise, I'd give it a miss.

2.5/5 stars

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