Le visiteur du futur (2022)

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François Descraques takes The Visitor from the Future from webseries to Manga, finally to feature film in 2022, and it overindulges in the comedy elements at the cost of the third act's tension and heart. It's like everyone in this thing is a Shane Black henchman. Everyone, even our point of view character, is kind of dumb, or at least foolish, if not outright morons (to the point where you have to wonder how they ever got into their positions). So when they suddenly become competent at the end, it's hard to believe. The comedy extends to its mish-mash idea of the future, at once able to support life-like robots AND still be a postapocalyptic world with both radiation and, somehow, zombies. So nothing is too credible, and therefore closer to a spoof. And that's fine, there are some fun and funny moments throughout. But the finale has cool action moments and enough of a heart that you wish it had restrained itself a bit more in the first two acts. Like an off-kilter Guardians of the Galaxy, which is something you may be into. 3 weeks 4 days ago