Marvel’s Inhumans is a rare miss for the Cinematic Universe, so much so that I actually left before the conclusion. I heard the rumblings of bad reviews before I went in, but I didn’t want to believe them, and hoped to be surprised. Unfortunately it was not to be.
This “film” coming to theaters is a weird round-about tale. Originally intended to be a film in the Marvel series, the backstory of the Inhumans was later incorporated into the Marvel show Agents of SHIELD, which I do greatly enjoy. The new Inhumans show is partly backed by IMAX, so the first two episodes were combined together for a limited run on IMAX screens this week, before the show launches on ABC later in the month. Helmed by Scott Buck, it certainly didn’t start off on the right foot (google him to see a list of his failures over the years when he was the showrunner).
Inhumans follows the group of super-humans in their hidden city on the moon. The king’s own brother starts an uprising, forcing the royal family and their friends to Earth. If it sounds like a plot from a 80’s low budget sci-fi show, you wouldn’t be far off the mark. The dialogue is almost comically bad, and the wooden, stuttering acting is the result of either grossly poor direction or just terrible actors. There were about 5-10 minutes of good sequences in the hour I sat through before leaving, and that’s being generous. Makes me wonder if the show will be canceled before it ever airs an episode.
Without the film rights to the Mutants (Fox owns those for their X-Men films), Marvel Studios and Disney desperately needed to develop the Inhumans (the next best thing to Mutants) into something with some staying power. But this terrible miss may mean they never see the light of day again.
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