It isn't far into Thunder Force's 107 minute runtime before there's a sudden realisation that director Ben Falcone and partner Melissa McCarthy are a great pairing on other projects, when it comes to their own such 2016s The Boss or Tammy and now this it seems that they have one thing in common - how to bore an audience with flat, unfunny sometimes irrelevant jokes that often go past the time when they were meant to be funny. Yet again Falcone shows that McCarthy can work and can shine given a good co star and her co star here Octavia Spencer they both have a good screen presence but when it comes to vision Falcone is seriously lacking. He took female superheroes, check, it's a superhero comedy, so like Deadpool, and it has interesting ideas, check. But the film is constantly bombarded by daft, sordid and poor punchlines that even the literal punches can't make it better. The film's saving grace is it has competently shot action scenes and it's worth a couple of light chuckles and nothing more than that. On the lighter side this comedy superhero misfire is hardly a crime to cinema - well not a bad one anyway, but the sad truth is that the stars seem to be having a lot more fun than you will. And that just leaves a bad taste in the mouth kind of like uncooked chicken. To be honest we'd rather have uncooked chicken than watch go through this drek again. 2\5.
Review of Thunder Force
