Everyone Involved With Thunder Force Deserved Better - Gizmodo

It follows two long-time friends, Lydia (McCarthy) and Emily (Spencer) who could not be more different.

Fast forward to the present and Lydia is a blue-collar worker while Emily owns a multibillion-dollar corporation.

A series of events reunites the friends and Lydia, quite mistakenly, is injected with the serum Emily has been working on her whole life.

The serum makes her super strong and after Emily takes the treatment and gains invisibility, the two team up to become Thunder Force, the world’s first actual superhero team to fight the Miscreants.

Falcone’s direction is dry and uninteresting; action scenes lack any energy or flair, scenes play out in silence for what seems like forever (mostly to highlight extended jokes), and when the jokes don’t work, which they often don’t, the scenes get more and more uncomfortable.

(One word: Nell.) You feel like you’re watching live theater in complete silence where the actors have forgotten their lines and just start to riff.

McCarthy is attempting to fire on all cylinders as she’s known to do but everything else in the movie, including Spencer, gives her nothing.

But the King in particular has so little characterization, and so little screen time to play with it, he never feels like the credible threat he’s supposed to be.

(Case in point, the King being the lead Miscreant is played as a reveal but it’s so obvious and revealed with such carelessness, I didn’t even mark is as a spoiler. The others I won’t discuss but...you’ll guess them. Trust me.) So you’ve got lifeless direction, actors with little to work with, no sense of urgency or emotion in the story, and a few weird tangents that don’t add much.

Now, you may be wondering, “Is it funny at least?” And answer is “kind of.” As I already stated, the majority of Thunder Force’s jokes fall flat.

That’s because the best jokes, like one involving raw chicken, get repeated and run into the ground.

Everyone involved with Thunder Force deserved better.