The Defenders

The Defenders (2017) 

Still, exactly what you would expect. But from the end of the third episode and until then only in implied. The problem is not so much that at first each member plays on his own backyard, but rather that all those lines act as purely superfluous fourteenth and fifteenth episodes of their already finished thirteen-episode series and not as a regular follow-up of their life story. On top of that, the truth is that the quality of the individual segments exactly corresponds to the quality of the series of their main characters. So Murdock and Jessica are in terms of quality on a completely different level than Luke (at least that's where it´s based on Colter's charisma and Misty) or Danny Rand, who is clearly annoying. However, as soon as they get together, the Iron Fist suddenly works. It progresses in the style predetermined by the previous "episodes", namely good physical stunts inside the warehouses, a straightforwardly unnecessarily too talkative course of events, decent bad girls (although Sigourney has almost no room, so she has to get by only with a purely sinister frown) or= a not entirely consistent mix of "realistic "comic book approach with the excessive one. It's good and fun, no doubt about that, but inevitably it looks like a decent one-off special movie for fans rather than the regular outcome of several years of creating, towards which all previous series have headed, especially when it is game-changing only for one of the characters and the mystical supranational transnational super bad organization that has been built for centuries turns out to an inadvertently ridiculous equivalent of the villainous Kobra Kai division of Karate Kid in terms of its capabilities. (08/21/2017)