The movie’s conflict is that the Deviants, which were believed to be destroyed, are back again, and our heroes must stop the atrociously animated monsters. I lost count of how many times these 10 boring people casually found themselves in perfect triangular formation.
The screen reads “Hiroshima 1945” while Henry stands amid the wreckage and yells, “What have I done?!” Angelina Jolie as Thena in “The Eternals” Disney Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie and Ma Dong-seok join the MCU in “Eternals.” ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy EvereĪnd the group’s leader Ajak is played by Salma Hayek, who is not even allowed to be fun and Salma Hayeky! There’s also Phastos, a magical inventor of new technologies played by Brian Tyree Henry, who boasts one of the time-jumping movie’s most confounding moments. ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Evereĭruig (Barry Keoghan) can control people’s minds, Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) stars in Bollywood movies and has fire hands, Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) runs super fast, Gilgamesh (Ma Dong-seok) is really strong and Sprite (Lia McHugh) has the ability to trick people with optical illusions. Salma Hayek plays Ajak, the leader of the Eternals in Marvel’s latest film. Gemma Chan’s Sersi is able to change inanimate objects into other inanimate objects, but God forbid she alter her facial expression.
Richard Madden’s Ikaris is hot, can fly and has laser eyes. Angelina Jolie’s Thena has the personality of a bar of soap and an accent that suggests her semester abroad in London was the best four months of her life.Īll the characters are similarly bland. The most important difference between the Eternals and X-Men, however, is that Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Halle Berry’s Storm are layered, fascinating character studies.
However, like “Star Trek”‘s Prime Directive, they refuse to impact the course of history. The Eternals are powerful aliens who have spent 7,000 years on Earth keeping the masses safe from the Deviants, which from what I gathered are wolves made out of twigs. Rated PG-13 (fantasy violence and action, some language and brief sexuality.) In theaters Nov.