First, the fact Matthew Reilly has never written or directed a movie portends the downright awful storytelling you might expect. Second, if you didn't know better, you'd swear this was the mastercraft of a 20-something gamer with a progressive-idealist agenda. Third, several scenes were so farfetched and inexplicably incorrect you'd wonder if Reilly was was on meth writting this farce. For a movie based on the threat of a Russian rocket attack, does he even know what an ICBM is? Are we really to believe the best military force in the world would be left vulnerable by two small anti-rocket bases with no redundancy or failure plans? Are we stupid? Then there's the anti-white man "message" which seems vogue in Hollywood today. Truth is, the only positive "white men" were Captain John Welsh, shot dead 12 mins into movie, and our superhero's father who had about 5 minutes of screentime. The rest were either the mercenary bad guys touting Trumpist anti-socialism rhetoric or negative stereotypes on the presidential staff. Meanwhile, those were fighting for the goodness of mankind were our female hero, an Indian corporal, an African American general and woman-president. It gets to a point where I just wish they'd say a disclaimer up front "Message Movie", that way I just move on.
Review of Interceptor
