Ant-Man (PG-13)
Run Time: 117 min
Ant-Man is a new superhero movie that follows Avengers:
Age of Ultron as the twelfth installment in the absurdly successful film
franchise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie stars Paul Rudd (Anchorman,
The 40-Year-Old Virgin) as the title character alongside Evangeline Lily,
Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale and Michael Pena. As a huge fan
of the Marvel movies and comic book films in general, I was really looking
forward to seeing how this lesser known character would adapt to the big
screen. However, I knew heading into the theater that this movie wouldn’t be on
the same massive, epic scale of some of the more recent films from Marvel
Studios. In the end, Ant-Man did exactly what I expected it to do,
literally shrinking the title character, as well as the stakes of the story,
while not changing the quality of moviemaking.
Scott Lang (Paul Rudd)
is a master burglar just released from prison. Struggling to find a job due to
his criminal record, Lang decides to break into the house of a famous scientist
named Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) in order to steal money from a safe. Instead,
Lang discovers a suit in the safe, which he soon realizes allows him to shrink
down to the size of an ant while gaining superhuman strength. Now, Lang must
work with Pym to learn how to control his newfound skills in order to prevent
Darren Cross (Corey Stoll) from abusing the power of the same technology in the
form of a “Yellowjacket” suit.
Overall, I had an
absolute blast watching Ant-Man. As I mentioned earlier, it wasn’t
exactly on the same world-ending scale of movies like Age of Ultron¸ but
it was still an extremely entertaining experience nonetheless. Primarily
a comedy star, Paul Rudd turned in an excellent performance in the lead role
while working in plenty of his signature humor. The rest of the cast did great
too and Michael Douglas delivered his most memorable performance in years.
Furthermore, there were
plenty of awesome action scenes to keep the story moving and the visual effects
used for the Ant-Man sequences were absolutely stunning. With a seemingly
endless string of unique ideas, it truly didn’t surprise me that Marvel managed
to deliver yet again with this movie. Don’t let the small size of this hero
fool you, Ant-Man is an unbelievably exciting superhero movie that
certainly shouldn’t be missed.
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