Review: Millennia-old Eternals try to save Earth and its mortal inhabitants from the evil Deviants in Chloé Zhao’s star-studded Marvel movie, 'Eternals'
‘Eternals” answers a question of cosmic proportions, as befits a Marvel release with a whole new cast of supercharacters. The question is how well Chloé Zhao, a singularly gifted filmmaker accustomed to working on a modest scale, was able to do as the director and co-writer of a superexpensive, supercomplicated and superlong action adventure.
The answer is more than well enough, even though the story, stretched out over 157 minutes, is rambling and repetitive. The production’s graphics are striking, with shimmering gold filigrees as a motif. The physical locations are spectacular, a surprise because most examples of the genre are shot in the augmented reality of high-tech soundstages. The spirit of Ms. Zhao’s film—and it is Ms. Zhao’s film—ranges from buoyant to playful during the downtime between generic battles to the almost death.
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