I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. 2nd weekend estimate for TMFU saw a pretty typical 2nd weekend drop. Falling 44% is pretty good with many movies falling more like 50%+. F4 dropped 68%, so clearly Word of mouth helped F4 Bomb hard and word of Mouth helped TMFU have a modest % drop. But the only thing that was going to save TMFU in the USA would have been no drop at all, or even a small increase.
Fingers crossed the foreign box office puts this movie into profit, otherwise the oh so obvious set up for creating a franchise will fail to materialise. If the movie does really well in digital and Blu-ray sales they might role the dice on one more movie, but a multi-movie franchise is not looking promising.
I saw the movie last night. I liked it, but it is rather slow going after the initial action sequence so I got a wee bit sleepy for about 15 or 20 minutes, and it lacks the unique slickness of past Guy Ritchie movies. Also, while Henry Cavill is a competent actor I don't think he quite carried the movie like a younger George Clooney, Tom Cruise or RDJ would have been able to. Superman doesn't need to have an actor with the right swagger, so Cavill is well suited for that role, but for this role he wasn't really in his comfort zone. Armie Hammer played the stereotypical Russian heavy role fine, but it was never a role to carry the movie.
6.5/10 from me.
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