I like Chloe Grace Moretz was glad to see her in an adult role. But this was a role she should have declined. The movie starts out well enough but then devolves into an absurd, cartoonish monster movie with Moretz as a young superwoman who can do anything.
There is nothing subtle about it. She's an expert on WWII allied and enemy aircraft. Although she has never been in aerial combat, she's a crack shot with a turret gun. While the plane is under attack by enemy planes, she crawls across the underside of a wing to rescue a baby from a monster. One of the funniest moments is when she is blown out of the plane and is falling earthward yet somehow manages to get blown back upwards and into the plane through the same hole she fell out of. Back on the ground, she defeats the monster in hand-to-hand fighting, even chasing down the frightened monster as it tries to run away. It's a scene reminiscent of Popeye getting superhuman strength after eating his spinach. The only thing missing as she chased down and then beat up the monster was the Popeye music.
Unfortunately, the film is not done for laughs. It had potential as a comedy or a tongue in cheek action movie that doesn't take itself seriously. But it plays as a straight drama that becomes laughably bad.
Moretz likely took the role in order to star in an action film. Hopefully, it will pay off for her with better roles in much, much better films.
There is nothing subtle about it. She's an expert on WWII allied and enemy aircraft. Although she has never been in aerial combat, she's a crack shot with a turret gun. While the plane is under attack by enemy planes, she crawls across the underside of a wing to rescue a baby from a monster. One of the funniest moments is when she is blown out of the plane and is falling earthward yet somehow manages to get blown back upwards and into the plane through the same hole she fell out of. Back on the ground, she defeats the monster in hand-to-hand fighting, even chasing down the frightened monster as it tries to run away. It's a scene reminiscent of Popeye getting superhuman strength after eating his spinach. The only thing missing as she chased down and then beat up the monster was the Popeye music.
Unfortunately, the film is not done for laughs. It had potential as a comedy or a tongue in cheek action movie that doesn't take itself seriously. But it plays as a straight drama that becomes laughably bad.
Moretz likely took the role in order to star in an action film. Hopefully, it will pay off for her with better roles in much, much better films.