Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80% Was it just that Marvel fans wanted to like Ant-Man so much that they actually managed to convince themselves that they did? What was this movie, people? Like, for real? Being a blockbuster about a man with the powers to shrink down to the size of an ant and also harness the ability to control ants, this was always going to be a weird movie, of course. But Ant-Man was really, really weird - tiny Paul Rudd flying on the back of an ant weird. The most bizarre thing about the film, though, is that it got really good reviews. And yet Ant-Man comes embarrassingly close to being a fully-fledged superhero movie disaster. Here's what's wrong with Ant-Man: Paul Rudd doesn't make Scott Lang feel like a guy who deserves his own film; he has no chemistry with Evangeline Lilly; the bad guy, played by Corey Stoll, is the most generic superhero villain in recent memory; the movie doesn't bother to take its premise anywhere interesting; it's kind of boring; the jokes fall flat. What's good about Ant-Man? Um, Michael Pena? Ant-Man currently has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, denoting critical acclaim. What? This is hardly a functioning movie picture - it's uninspired, cliched and even a bit humiliating.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
