The film's opening scene sees Chris Pratt's Peter Quill on a mission to locate a mystical artefact, which turns out to be a sort of orb-thing that everybody spends the sum of the movie trying to locate. What should have been super difficult to recover, however, given its ability to - you know - destroy entire planets, proves to be no big deal to attain: Quill kicks a few little lizards, opens a door, and the orb is his. That was it? You'd think that something of such great, unspeakable power would at least have trigged a few booby traps, giving Chris Pratt the chance to play Indiana Jones as he dodged poisonous arrows or rolled out of the way as a huge boulder tried to crush him. It doesn't make a lot of sense that the orb was basically just sitting there, waiting to be taken; nor does it make sense that it took so long for people to come and get it. Like this article? Agree or disagree? Let us know in the comments section below.
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.
