What’s Aged the Worst?
Unrealism critiques; Hemsworth’s self-assessment and accent; good-man prison trope; repair-worker insult; dense plot and audio; thin final villain; Facebook grievance
In the discussion (7)
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- Criticisms that the cyberattack premise was unrealistic are considered to have aged poorly.
- Hemsworth’s dismissal of his own performance is rejected; his accent is criticized, and simply retaining an Australian accent is proposed.
- The stock action-film backstory of a good man imprisoned for injuring someone while protecting another person is criticized as too convenient.
- The film insults television and garage-door repair workers through Hathaway’s dismissive dialogue.
- The dense plot, jumpy explanatory dialogue, and inconsistent audio mix are criticized.
- The final hacker villain arrives too late and lacks a developed biography or convincing motive beyond money as a scoreboard.
- Publicly venting a professional grievance on Facebook is added as an aged-worst choice.