An okay superhero jaunt suffering from a lack of compelling plot or interesting characters (only Anna Taylor-Joy's Illyana really registers) - it also plays at keeping the plot and the characters mysterious at the beginning in favour of atmospheric build up which is more frustrating than compelling - its ragingly obvious what Maisie Williams' power is at least half an hour before she gets to show it off. There's a few decent set-pieces along the way as the various characters confront individally spooky circumstances and one effective CGI monster but the final big CGI big bad is a bit of a sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing kinda thing. Still, I've missed superhero epics and even at this reduced scale (six actors, one location) it provides a couple of the right feels.
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