Marvel’s upcoming Eternals has earned, to say the least, unenthusiastic reviews, and when you consider all the factors involved, that tells you this sucker must really stink.
Eternals hits U.S. theaters on November 5 and is the cornerstone offering of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe calls “Phase IV.”
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which is already a box office disappointment (only $422 million worldwide), is the official launch of “Phase IV,” but Eternals is the biggie, the gathering of Big Stars in a $200 million epic that clocks in at 156 minutes.
What’s more, this is also the launch of Marvel’s upcoming woke era. Eternals is loaded with racial minorities, women, a gay character, and is directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao, an Asian female. You add to that the fact that this is a Disney production, and what you have is catnip for the predominantly left-wing critical class not only to gush but want to gush.
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Except they are not gushing, even though the movie is “very queer.”
Currently, at Rotten Tomatoes, Eternals sits right on the bubble between rotten and fresh with a barely fresh 61 percent rating. But even the “positive” reviews seem grudging. Here’s an example of a “positive” review from the left-wing loons at Entertainment Weekly:
The looping flashback structure and relaxed, intimate pacing has the odd effect of making the fate of the free world feel a lot less urgent than it probably should; the movie frequently comes off less like a standard MCU tentpole than a metaphysical family drama whose black sheep just happens to be Thanos. That probably won’t thrill a lot of fans who come for the wham-bam deluge of intergalactic battlefields and Infinity Stones, even though there’s more than enough byzantine mythology and noisy CG battles in its 2-hour-and-37-minute runtime.
Same from left-wing Variety:
Can they come together to defend their adopted home? The suspense will not be killing you, though the final battle summons aspects of grandeur. To me, there are three top-tier team superhero movies: the first “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” “Eternals” is a fluid and sometimes bedazzling entertainment I’d place on the next tier, because it never transcends its conventionality and makes you go “Damn!” Maybe next time, Zhao can raise the stakes on the heroic vibes by mixing in a drop of nomad reality.
But there are a lot of reviews from left-wing publications that are more like this:
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