'Eternals' fails to live up to the potential of its Marvel Comics inspiration
The "Eternals" are outshined by the guest stars in their own film.
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November 11, 2021
In one important sense, filmmaker Chloé Zhao's cinematic adaptation of comics creator Jack Kirby's "Eternals" is incredibly faithful, in that both tried to establish a semi-independent universe-in-microcosm within a broader Marvel universe, and neither one quite managed to stick that particular landing.
While "Eternals" has been review-bombed online, it matters why it doesn't work, which is far different from the reasons motivating a number of internet trolls with grudges.
Zhao is to be commended for making Kirby's collection of otherworldly immortals more gender-balanced, and even more et...
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