Spy Kids: Armageddon 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

In the new version, the parents (Zachary Levi and Gina Rodriguez) are in trouble again - the kids of the Tango-Torrez couple will have to learn about mom and dad's profession, and save the world at the same time.

Spy Kids: Armageddon 4K Review
The Spy Kids (Connor Esterson and Everly Carganilla) live in a beautiful glass house and don't realize how they're helping a game developer (Billy Magnussen) get hold of a dangerous computer virus. But having made a mistake, the smart and savvy kids aren't about to leave the villain at the mercy of technology - they become spies to save the world with their parents (Zachary Levi and Gina Rodriguez). To do so, the family must battle a developer in a virtual world.

The franchise about the children of spies has waited for its hour of renewal, but for ten years, it seems, managed to dissolve in the public field - time has judged the series not to spare. Robert Rodriguez decided not to spare us - the director has long been missing stars from the sky, not trying to keep up with former glory, and continues desperate vivisections over the movie material. At the same time, he makes movies for children and with such a childish zador, as if behind the scenes is not a 55-year-old director, and the same boy who went for transmuker. If Rodriguez allowed himself to be infantile, he often compensated for it with some Cinephile game, smeared on celluloid: on "Sharkboy and Lava" always came "Fear Planet", on "Stone of Desire" - "Machete", and on the inglorious fourth "Children of Spies" - sequel blow the same "Machete" and "Sin City". Now Rodriguez does not give hope - his leap into the world of childhood dreams looks solid and final, and Troublemaker Studios has long since turned from a forge of film classics into a dull garage of a lab technician.

Re-launch of the famous franchise willy-nilly meet with cold: the spy passions of the former films have subsided, good artists replaced by ordinary (with this faced the fourth part, which, to be fair, preferred to forget), significantly changed and the very motivation of the director: if in the trilogy, say, Rodriguez fooled around, but with taste and knowledge, then in "Armageddon" he is already preparing a product, and at random generated. "Such a tape could be created by a neural network" and other verbal stilettos are just asking for it. About the actors can be and more detailed: spy kids Connor Esterson and Everly Carganilla - far from Daryl Sabara and Alexa PenaVega, but, let's be honest, stainless sympathy is easily explained by habit and uncontrollable nostalgia. Not much is required of the kids in the frame: knock out computerized NPCs, look like cool parents, and shine their milk teeth. With the older ones, the case is more difficult: Zachary Levi and Gina Rodriguez are not close to fill the frame with the energy that gave Antonio Banderas and Carla Guccino, but okay: the main thing is that Levi in the frame looks like Ben Affleck - the hero, incidentally, the previous (and very recent) failure of Rodriguez called "Hypnotic".

Overall, "Armageddon" has little to give: a more contemplative drawing of villain skeletons, an actual recasting of family roles (the girls here are the strongest and most determined, but Rodriguez, however, has this story stretching back to the '90s) and a rather squishy mix of the two plots - the first and third films. First there's the familiar spy catastrophe and the unmasking of a parent's job, and then the battle with the villain in digital landscapes (they haven't gotten any better since the release of the threequel, it feels). The director is a bully, and even in the format of a cleaned-up release for streaming leaves his criminal footprints; they unmistakably reach for the man responsible for other acts of cheating - like when he made you sniff smell cards in the movie theater and called it "4D format." And "Armageddon" in that sense is just another creative relapse.