Archenemy

Hey, better than most of the seasonal Hollywood crap coming out right now. Movie about a fallen hero from another world. Interesting and compelling. Special effects weren't the best. Worth a watch.

Needless to say not an original one. The concept of this movie has been used by the sci-fi sector in so many ways, it may even bore you when you first started the movie. Later things get interesting because you too wonder what is real and what is not alongside the main character. This movie caught my eye because of its beautiful poster and I can't say I regret watching it but I am slightly disappointed because even though I watched this without any expectations I guess a small part of me wanted this to be good. As I said, I loved the main idea and I would love to see it handled better but not as a 90mins movie but as a tv mini-series. The format would have been more suitable because there was no chance to see any character depth or to understand why someone is doing something other than just guessing. Action scenes could have handled better if this was a tv series alongside well... everything. I don't recommend it if you are hoping to watch a really good movie but if you wanna watch a movie that could trigger your imagination to think of a better scenario based on this one, then you can give it a try because you can't help but to think the ways it could have been better.

A truly original story. Max Fist keeps you guessing weather or not he is crazy or truly a hero from another universe. Definitely will leave you wanting to watch again and see all the subtle details.

Hamster is a black teenage aspiring to be an investigative reporter like Hunter Thompson. He finds his subject in homeless man Max Fist (Joe Manganiello) who claims to be a hero with superpowers. He comes from another world and the problem is that his powers only exist in his home world. Hamster's sister gets into trouble with drug dealers after stealing their money. I really like the premise but I would slow-roll the comic book animation. The first half of the movie shouldn't have the animation. The audience should be conflicted about Max Fist's story and his home world. He should be equally crazy and equally heroic. I like the fight against the car and there should be more of that. This is smaller indie and the movie struggles to be a big action superhero movie that it wants to be especially in the third act. All in all, I like the characters, the actors, and the premise.

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I saw "Archenemy", starring Joe Manganiello-Rampage, Spider_Man_2002; Skylan Brooks-Empire_tv, The Darkest Minds; Zolee Griggs-Bit, Cory in the House_tv; Glenn Howerton-It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia_tv, Crank and Amy Seimetz-Pet Sematary_2019, Stranger Things_tv. This movie is the first movie financed-& co_produced-by a new fan owned entertainment company called Legion M. It tells portions of the story using animation, usually the parts when Joe is telling his background stories. Joe plays a bum living off the streets-ragged clothes, living in alleys, etc. Skylan is a teen that wants to be a reporter so he is always looking for a story when he crosses paths with Joe. Joe tells stories of his life on another planet as a super hero-it seems for some reason, he lost his powers when he came to our dimension. In his stories, Amy-his archenemy-cast him through a wormhole during a fight and he is trying to get back home to finish his job. Joe drinks a lot of whiskey, saying, 'It's not as strong as it is on my planet so I have to drink more of it!' and he also uses drugs, saying that it has restorative powers to get him into fighting shape. Is he telling the truth or is he just a bum looking for his next high? Skylan believes his tall tales but his sister, Zolee, does not. Of course, Zolee has her own problems. Her boss, Glenn, is a drug dealer and she does something stupid to get on his bad side. I love super hero movies but this one is a little amateurish-it could have used the touch of a professional writer. It's not rated but it contains violence, language, drinking and drug use and has a running time of 1 hour & 30 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright as a rental.

It's not as bad as I thought it would be....its way way worse. Like people said....nice concept, but a horrible written story and poor execution.

Few movies shot in this twisted style. Comic book inserts that are perfectly woven into the storyline lend a good narrative to this yet grim story.

This is only a good try for superhero movie. Similar a bit to spiderman, batman, superman. Bit emotional like ordinary people get emotional when traveling or moving from place to place, or entering new crowd or part of life, so does her entering different world. But besides bit of associating to common hero characters and good try, this movie is nonsense. Nonsense story, unrealistic, complicated, and worst part is cartoon which looks like some worst quality cartoon worst than even the worst cartoon that exist today, only giving us glimpses of some another dimension, some invisible world, which associates with religions today which state the same. Bit hot girl and weird characters, some of which are normal and some not. For a movie, not good, negative, unclear, waste of time.

The film was really carried by the lead Joe Manganiello. You could tell this was done on a super thin budget and every cent was well spent. It looked cinematic, the use of animation instead of any CGI except for the very end worked perfectly, the flight scenes were not badly done for the clearly short budget. I wish they went a little more violent with it, to make it more gritty. But it still worked as is. My only complaint was the ending could've used more fleshing out and i would've written it differently, but it didnt ruin the rest of my enjoyment of the film. The writing was solid mostly. Joe really endears you to the character, all the side cast was just mediocre or not great but they were bi-products of the leads journey. We've got Glen playing Dennis but as a drug dealer and he does fine. The only other recognizable face in the film. I'd have loved to see a higher budget version done of this. It could have fleshed out the story of chromium more and shown it possibly well rendered in CGI. The writing could've been tighter in some places but over all a solid 7.5 for what it is.