By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Universal Pictures
Serenity updates.
Universal Pictures is offering a major show of confidence
by allowing an even larger screening of Serenity
to play out across the US. And, with early screenings, come early reviews.
Early Serenity Screening
Even though Serenity does not hit theatres until the close of summer,
Universal and Whedon are already offering tons of early screenings for the
film. You can get an early screenings schedule for Serenity by clicking
here.
However, considering the early screenings for Serenity are filling
up faster than sites can post the links, you may just have to stick with
some of the early Serenity reviews below.
The early reviews for Serenity have been nothing but positive,
and the latest reviews from AICN and IESB are no different:
AICN Q. Fine. I'm a convert. How's "Serenity," already?
Well, writer-director
Whedon takes all of the above and vacuum-packs it into 130 minutes - only
with better lighting (by Eastwood cinematographer Jack Green), and, oddly,
what felt like slightly clunkier action photography.
I really, really want
to praise the film's opening 10 minutes. Whedon manages to explain the backstory
of the "Firefly" universe in the form of a school lesson. Then he flash-forwards
to Simon Tam's (Maher's) rescue of his sister River (Glau). Then he introduces
The Operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the nameless assassin who finally explains
why the government wants River back so very badly. And then - in an absolutely
splendid bit of filmmaking - he introduces the Serenity, Capt. Reynolds
and his entire crew in a single, witty tracking shot that takes us through
the entire ship as it buckles on re-entry. These first 10 mins. are mostly
artful and succinct, and were probably murderously hard to write.
IESB
And one more spoiler – there’s a massive space battle at the end. I truly wished that was longer though – it looked amazingly cool!
Everything else I could say about the movie gets to be too spoilerish – the brief review is that Karen and I loved this movie. It was funny, it was gripping, and it never slowed down. The plot was well structured – I come out of movies a lot these days groaning about huge plot holes or stupid things that were just done to further the plot, and thinking back there’s only one spot that I could poke a stick at – the captain turned his back on someone that he should have known better than to do, and that was out of character but led to the next sequence. Everything else – wonderful.
Unfortunately, I was unable to get a ticket for the early screenings for Serenity as well. Hopefully Universal Pictures will give yet another
vote of confidence and give us another early screening of Serenity down in the LA/OC area.
Serenity updates.
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