12/5/2023 0 Comments Free Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3![]() ![]() But it isn’t just style Gunn leans into here. This is probably the darkest and most violent offering the mainline Marvel films have offered to date and I’d definitely suggest to parents not to bring their young ones. ![]() Quirky offensive humour is abound (as is the first F-bomb in the MCU), as is quite a bit of violence. Gunn leans heavily into his trademark style, pushing the PG-13 rating right up to its threshold. 3 in many ways feels a bit more like a James Gunn movie than a Guardians movie. One of the best MCU action scenes hands down. Speaking of action, there’s a stellar one-shot hallway scene near the end set to a killer track. There’s still action to be had in spades, but the way Gunn portrays this villain thankfully feels fresh and different, he’s not just a physical obstacle that needed to be fought. His pursuit of perfection does make him a maniac, but he serves more as a physiological villain for Rocket rather than a physical threat to the greater universe. ![]() The High Evolutionary is also an interesting villain for the MCU. They were intriguing, touching and quite dark even, perhaps the darkest the MCU has been. Rocket is 100% the emotional heart of this movie and thankfully these scenes never pulled me out of the movie. While comatose, Rocket experiences a series of flashbacks to his time in the High Evolutionary’s labs and the friendships he made while a captive. That plan involves theft, tomfoolery and a reunion with 2014-era Gamora. Fading away, the Guardians must devise a plan to try and save their friend. Tasked with bringing in Rocket is Adam Warlock, a supremely powerful being who ends up putting Rocket into critical condition. He instructs the Sovereign, who are some of his experiments, to bring him Rocket, an escaped experiment from his past. Thanks to pissing off the Sovereign in Volume 2, the Guardians are now under the crosshairs of the High Evolutionary, played by Chukwudi Iwuji. This film doesn’t waste much time getting the ball rolling on the central plot. Volume three opens up not long after the events of The Holiday Special and while it’s not critical to the plot of this movie, some major revelations from that special carry forward without explaining, so maybe watch that. ![]()
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