Power Rangers Review: 7 Ups & 4 Downs

6. Dean Israelite's Surprisingly Solid Direction

This is only Dean Israelite's second movie after 2015's fairly unremarkable teen sci-fi flick Project Almanac. It was hard to have too much enthusiasm about him directing a Power Rangers film, considering his debut had a mere $12 million budget and so many filmmakers struggle with the leap to $100 million fare.

That said, Israelite does an unexpectedly good job with the film visually, lingering on great shots and not over-editing the action into oblivion as is so popular these days.

The film manages to be colourful and visually dynamic despite its grittiness, and if Israelite is happy to return to work on the sequel, Lionsgate would be insane not to throw money at him.