Review of Eternals (2021) by Amiru1Isme — 05 Nov 2021

While the rewarding third act is worth the wait, the first and the second act of this film has a ton of pacing issues, lacks a nice build-up, unique chemistry and fulfilling development. Chloe Zhao's signature style, execution and editing for Eternals overall doesn't really paid off. This film also has really bad lighting especially when it's dusk or night time (by film visual), sometimes you can't really see who's on the screen especially on action sequences and few of the flashback sequences felt a bit all over the place. Charming characters like Kingo who should've been the comic relief was sidelined by his assistant instead so Kumail's performance was a bit underwhelmed and had no motivations. Ma Dong Seok/Don Lee's performance felt a lot better than Kumail's and few characters in the film had that 'one tear only' moment. Angelina Jolie's Thena was also underused, her character has more actions than interactions because of her fictional disease and Sersi had more motivation than emotions or any expression while Makkari, Druig, and Sprite are in the spotlight for fleshing those points out.

SPOILERS:

The third act has great plot twists and character conflicts that impacts a Galactus-scale threat and a huge cliffhanger at the end of the film, which was shocking and satisfying to witness. The first post credit scene ignites an exciting bond between the Eternals and a cool new character for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.