I enjoyed the first 2 acts, but the 3rd fell kind of flat. It felt like they spent so long setting up the story that by the time the villain was introduced, it was time to wrap everything up. Wait, the credits are already rolling? There should be like another 30 minutes...
Unfortunately, there was no big kaiju moment like the Stay Puft man or the Statute of Liberty walking the streets of New York. In fact, there was very little happening in the city itself as most of the movie took place in either a lab or the firehouse, and that includes the big showdown with the villain. I wish they had explored more of what a frozen New York looked like. Why did they have to end the movie with the boss fight in the firehouse? It felt like it should have been the end of act 2, setting up a city-scale battle for act 3, but nope....credits started rolling right away.
I preferred Afterlife to this one. Frozen Empire just didn't feel as epic as previous entries in the franchise.
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