zero stars. relentlessly ugly, both formally and in every other way, the visuals are disgusting and cheap, greyed out and amplified to the max with some of the worst visual effects work I’ve ever witnessed mixed with incompetent action sequences and broken editing. the screenplay is a nonexistent screech of lazy references and mutated sentimentality. there’s no punchlines except “we’re in a movie” or “this is like that other thing” or a comically overblown display of meaningless ultra violence. death doesn’t matter and neither does life, the attempts to make you care about these cyphers for hackneyed nihilism and disfigured corporate branding are more manipulative than adverts for industrial charities. any potential form of resonance within the film’s coda gets…