Paul Rudd as Scott Lang - Ant-Man
Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne
Corey Stoll as Darren Cross - Yellowjacket
Bobby Cannavale as Paxton
Michael Peña as Luis
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson - Falcon
run time 117 minutes
Budget $130 million
Box office $518.6 million
After research covering years of investigation, scientist uncover how to close gap between atoms. Enclosed in an armored suit, it gives the wearer the very selfsame abilities. One to shrink to invisibility and second to return to normal size.
Along the way, our hero has also garnered the proportional strength of the ant as well as the ability to speak to them fluently.
These plot devices are hung as you would xmas bulbs on a tree and in this case, a workman plot line.
Our scientist starts a company to study and utilizes this new discovery. The business partner proves to be ruthless and evil, with a healthy dose of greed mixed in. Others in the cast are shuffled back and forth between both extremes.
If you havn't guessed yet, science, mostly physics are tossed almost immediately. But mass and energy are added and subtracted on a whim. I don't even want to allude to the instances in question. Rent Ant Man and lets see if you see what I saw. I can remember thinking "Oh No! the can not be going to go there! But they do.
The plot is fair, The fight sceans as well as the action moments are at best workman. But it is the science that really left me cold.
The backgrounds are nice, the CGI is grandly overdone and the acting from those like Michael Douglas was workman or better.
So if you are looking for a comic book adaption then this film is just the ticket but as a stand alone movie it isn't working. I would have gone a 6 if it was clear they were not tied to their junk science, but when it became clear that they were vested in it that I could not in good conscience go above 4or 5.
It would make a neat rental and as a kids movie but I would not want friends to know I had this in my stash.
