It's gotten high scores on all the ideologically poisoned "review" sites and scores ultra high among fans.
Just came back from it just felt like a good, old school action flick with a Hero's journey type of story. It's great, and it does a proper "sendoff" with a character (Rooster) being a strong link between the previous movie and this movie.
This is one of those "turn your brain off and enjoy the ride" sorta deals. It just tries to be a good movie, and it's damn good. Lots of FUCK YEAH AMERICA tones to it as well.
I still want to know who the "enemy" they were fighting are though. Considering the wintery location it must be a reference to Russia, with the Su-57's kinda making an appearance as their opposition.
Regardless it's a great movie, even leftist publications are praising it. Go watch it if you have time.
Honest to god, this movie is a 9/10 for me.
Some dumb shit, and the romance plot is mediocre (due to it being a rando), but it's still good.
The music carried over, the font stayed the same as a throw back (which was what bumped it from 8 to 9 for me, attention to detail and consistency, not trying to change for Current Year+8).
I had to look this up afterwards but apparently Penny is mentioned multiple times in the original film, but not seen.
It's basically a rando. They did well by at least bringing the name back, but it's still someone who was never seen or really mentioned beyond throwaway lines.
It's not enough for me to dislike it though.
It was 100% fanservice and I bet Tom Cruise was responsible fo ra lot of it.
And I fucking loved it.