Spanner-2

Prequel to Zack Snyder's much better "Army of the Dead".. this is a fairly standard heist thriller directed by and starring the guy who plays the safe cracker in Dead... While it isn't terrible by any means, it didn't really grab me and he gets kinda annoying by the end of the film.

Kristen Stewart stars as Diana in this story which covers one weekend at the end of her marriage where she has to deal with Christmas with the royal family.. The film is slowly paced, which makes it at times kinda dull but the production values are very good and Stewart is terrific in the role... you never really get to know the other royals, and most of her interactions are with the household staff... other than a few fun scenes where she is with her sons.

The new MCU film introduces us to the Eternals, a group I knew absolutely nothing about going in... as well as a few other characters that pop up.. one of whom I was more familiar with. This is an interesting film, that opens up a bunch of new storylines for future films.. but the film itself... I feel like it was a bit of a misfire.. which is very rare for Marvel... the film contains a lot of world building stuff to set up the Eternals storyline which requires an awful lot of flashbacks and back story... which hampers the forward momentum of the main story... The cast is decent, Gemma Chan does most of the heavy lifting.. but they really waste Angelina Jolie and especially Salma Hayek in the film. It gets better in the last act but sadly this might be the weakest Marvel film since the MCU started.