Chris Pratt has fully grown into a hunky action-lead, but Dave Bautista’s beefy Drax is the scene stealer as he flexes his comedy chops
arvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise has now been going for almost a decade, long enough for its star Chris Pratt to have fully grown into his hunky action-lead image and leave behind the puppyish comedy turn from TV’s Parks and Recreation that got him hired in the first place.
Now Guardians of the Galaxy has reached the threequel stage: overlong, yes, and finally reaching for an importance and emotional closure that it doesn’t quite encompass, while leaving the GOTG brand open for a next-gen reboot. But it’s still spectacular, spirited and often funny.
A mysterious golden figure, Adam Warlock swoops in and unsuccessfully attempts to kidnap Rocket , leaving him seriously injured and on life-support. Quill and the Guardians are astonished to discover that their raccoon pal actually has a vitally important data chip implanted into him, with a “kill switch” preventing remedial surgery.
Now the whole group, including Groot , Drax , Mantis and Nebula , must journey to confront the High Evolutionary, for no initial reason other than to save Rocket’s life – but it soon becomes clear, inevitably, that what is at stake is the future of that galaxy that they’re there to guard.
The narrative importance of this final movie episode is signalled partly by its hefty length – 20 minutes longer than Vol 2 and 28 minutes longer than Vol 1 – but the sense of an ending is, perhaps inevitably, undermined by the suspicion that the movie’s constituent characters are each simply going to be reshuffled into theCinematic Universe at some stage in the future. Well, Gunn always brought energy and fun to his Guardians, and it’ll be sad to see them go.
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