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When you hear "superhero movie," its almost a given you think larger than life characters with over the top action scenes and heavy special effects. Sadly what I imagine will be lost on many potential viewers is that Mirageman is supposed to be what would happen if someone in the real world decided to become a superhero.
Sure, there have been famous superheroes before whose only "power" has been knowing karate, but Mirageman does a great job setting up the realistic consequences of someone putting on a mask to fight crime. His martial arts are impressive but they're very real, with no camera tricks or special effects to make them look cooler. He doesn't have a police scanner or anything, so he has to rely on people emailing him their problems to find out where to be (which some people abuse, naturally).
Mirageman is no god among men either; he gets surprised, beaten within an inch of his life and wonders what the hell made him think he could do this after a disastrous setback. But in the end, he realizes in a cynical world like ours one ordinary person can make a difference if they've got the courage to try.
Mirageman isn't your average blockbuster superhero movie, but if you're willing to accept it for it differences, you won't be disappointed.
Sure, there have been famous superheroes before whose only "power" has been knowing karate, but Mirageman does a great job setting up the realistic consequences of someone putting on a mask to fight crime. His martial arts are impressive but they're very real, with no camera tricks or special effects to make them look cooler. He doesn't have a police scanner or anything, so he has to rely on people emailing him their problems to find out where to be (which some people abuse, naturally).
Mirageman is no god among men either; he gets surprised, beaten within an inch of his life and wonders what the hell made him think he could do this after a disastrous setback. But in the end, he realizes in a cynical world like ours one ordinary person can make a difference if they've got the courage to try.
Mirageman isn't your average blockbuster superhero movie, but if you're willing to accept it for it differences, you won't be disappointed.
DOA is a fine game, but let's face it, for most people who like it it's flash over substance, T&A over perfect gameplay (not that the gameplay isn't good). That's exactly what the movie is like. The writing tends to be passable at best, with more than one scene of the female characters in their bathing suits or underwear. The movie also works in a nod to the game's spinoffs by including a beach volleyball scene. Anyone expecting something they haven't seen from DOA before is pretty much out of luck here.
But I'm not saying the movie is bad. Nearly all of the performers make for believable martial artists, but I cringed at the writing in the first scene. Deep this is not, but again, we all knew that coming in, right?
But I'm not saying the movie is bad. Nearly all of the performers make for believable martial artists, but I cringed at the writing in the first scene. Deep this is not, but again, we all knew that coming in, right?