The Hyperions Review

 

The Hyperions is an action-comedy film. The movie is produced by American Millimetre, Justin Bell Productions, Archstone Entertainment, and ReKon Productions and distributed by The Daily Wire. The Hyperions is written by Jon McDonald and Mike Timm and directed by Jon McDonald.

The story is two former members of the superhero team, The Hyperions, are holding a the Hyperions museum's guest and employees hostage. They demand to talk to a man named Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum so they can get their titan badges back. It seems like a simple hostage situation, but maybe there's more to this than everyone thinks.

Initial Reaction

The reason why I wanted to see this movie was because The Daily Wire was giving us some pretty good movies. Sure, they only disturbed two, this one and Run Hide Fight. But they did make Shut In. So those previous movies that I reviewed left a good impression, and I was curious how this one was gonna turn out.

Cons

I've got nothing to say. Let's move on.

Middle Ground

The only true gray area with the movie is some characters needed more backstory than the others. We get more with Mandulbaum and Vista (one of the members of the team), than anyone else. Some either get surface level story or none at all. So because of that there were only a limited amount of characters I actually cared for.

Pros

One aspect of The Hyperions I want to give credit for is the smaller stakes. Sure the filmmakers had a low budget and all, but think about some of the superhero movies or films inspired by comic book films were the stakes were small. I can only think of a few those being The Batman, Glass, Joker, and Logan. I'm definitely forgetting some but I'm just saying, a lot of times it's almost something either country ending or world ending. What I also liked about it was the focus on character. This definitely played out more like a family drama, but that's also what makes it a pretty interesting watch. With both instances I just mentioned, the filmmakers could've chosen the more easy way out of having more action than anything else. I also kind of liked the humor in this. It can be dry or subtle. And for the most part it worked for me. The last thing I'll give the movie credit for is the overall look. I actually wasn't expecting them to go for an opening in the 60s then fast forward to the 70s. So the movie does have a little bit of an old school charm added to it.

The Hyperions is pretty good. I loved how the stakes were at a smaller scale, more of a focus on character than action, I enjoyed some of the humor, and I kinda dug the retro look it had. While the movie did give some backstory on our characters, some could've used more.

My final rating is Good.

So, that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Mar 17th for my review of the newest Netflix movie, The Adam Project. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.