But then; silence.
Every once in a while someone would mention it in passing and I'd make a mental note to actually watch it at some point. Well, that "some point" occurred a few days ago and let's just say that I understand why Redline has somewhat fallen into obscurity.
Yes the art is absolutely fantastic in every single way. I could take a screencap of any given moment, frame it and put it in my room.
But it's not like a nice art style can carry a movie all the way.
I found Redline to be boring quite frankly.
The first 10 minutes are great; all things you need to know about the races are presented effectively and I got really into it. It is just fantastic honestly.
But the next HOUR is just characters talking. In a movie about competitive car-race-gun fights. Mhmm.
Just let that sink in.
This is a 100 minute long movie.
60 of these minutes are spent talking about lore and politics.
Who gives a shit about why these robot dudes can't go to this planet because it is a refugee zone, when there's another literal robot that turns into a car and shoots people?
Apart from this really convoluted aforementioned robot-subplot (a big part of that is some kind of bio weapon the glows and screams, like it wants to be an EVA angel so bad) there's also also a mafia subplot and a childhood friend/romance subplot.
It is impossible to keep track of what's going on. What does this movie want me to care about?
I want to care about the actual race and ignore all of this other nonsense, but then the racing plot becomes dependent on the robot-subplot and it just makes it so hard to care when I have no idea of what's going on.
I actually fell asleep as I was watching it, can you believe that?
I had to binge eat an entire toblerone just to power through the last thirty minutes.
Redline deserved more than it got, for sure.
