My Review of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil · 11:17pm Jun 25th, 2021
Rating Scale:
12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it
7/10—a fun and entertaining movie; not great but still enjoyable
6/10—a slightly above average film; it is something I might watch again
5/10—mediocre movie; not awful but not great either
4/10—a below average film; it could have been much better
3/10—a bad film; poorly written and poorly executed
2/10—a very bad movie; the few good things in the movie overshadowed by the bad things
1/10—a terrible movie; a total waste of time
0/10—a worthless piece of abomination; should have never been made
Hey, guys. Welcome to another Disney Friday movie review as we now talk about one of the worst live-action films to ever exist in Disney; this is none other than Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Forgive me if I sound really nick-picky here, but the subtitle of the film could have been more original. The titular character has always been the mistress of evil from the first film, the original, and until now. Couldn’t they just name it: “Maleficent 2” instead? “Mistress of Evil” doesn’t give any sort of distinctive narrative between this sequel and the predecessor by just lazily naming it like that.
The only things that were able to differentiate this movie from the first one is the amount of stupidity, rushed writing, half-assed plot, and poorly developed characters the former has. At least the first movie had a decent plot to move the story along although that really isn’t saying much, but here... it was just ridiculous!
To be honest, from the moment the prologue started, it was kinda cool and not bad. Things were smoothly flowing well up until Maleficent’s remaining kind is revealed and the villainess’s main goals amplify. From that point on, it was where the writing got utterly ridiculous.
The Dark Fey reveal they have been at war with the humans for centuries and are now at the point of being endangered. Thus, with the vengeful guidance of Borra, they plan to destroy the human forces.
Queen Ingrith just so happens to discover the magical potion that would instantly kill fairies of all sorts. With that, she plots to use her new powerful weapon to commit mass genocide of all magical creatures as she was racist against them... for some reason.
Aurora was even more annoying and useless in this movie, and Prince Phillip was incredibly bland than ever with little personality just like most Disney princes out there. The fairies were even more unbearable in this as well.
Then as the ultimate climax starts, that was when it was so unspeakably awful. Nearly more than half of the endangered Dark Fey were killed with little effort without so much as a single enemy casualty, several of the magic creatures being melted alive or being poofed out of existence within that church (seriously, could they not see that lady playing the piano causing all that? Why didn’t they just knock her out at the front?), or multiple innocent civilians possibly getting killed in the onslaught with nobody giving two shits about it, and Maleficent wasting her time sobbing over Conall’s body while her species were dying. The final fight kept dragging on and on and on and on. It felt way too long.
The entire battle was a massive, underwhelming, appalling disappointment. As a cherry on top, Maleficent predictably sacrifices herself to save Aurora, the latter weeps over her remains, Maleficent resurrects from her tears, and then anticlimactically saves the day. At the end, everyone is now suddenly friends again! Yeah, let’s forget about how the humans killed half their kind and nearly wiped them out, they’re all good now.
Let me just break this down one by one for you all: 1). Borra should not have been that quick to redeem himself like that after Phillip spared his life; remember, he and his kind have been at war with the humans for years. You would think that he would be so hard-headed in his lust for revenge to actually kill Phillip (which I wished it happened). One simple act of mercy won’t undo the mistrust and hatred that have been built up for years between both sides. 2). Not a single effort was done to restore all those who died from that anti-magic potion in the battle and nobody barely even cared they died except for Conall earlier who was likewise killed 3). The fairies didn’t even mind having that blue fairy (who also died) now a flower. That’s kinda messed up if you ask me. 4). Why didn’t they execute Queen Ingrith for treason, genocide, and attempted murder? She just turns into a goat and everybody laughs?! What?? No consequences for her tyrannical actions?
Oh, and Maleficent coming back to life was a pure example of Deus Ex Machina. Aurora’s tears bring a protagonist back to life from death just like that? How many times have we seen that in movies and tv shows now? It is so overused and annoying to see every single time.
*Sigh* This is just terrible for me to like. I will say though that the acting was great, namely Angelina Jolie’s and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s parts. While the cinematography and visuals were great, the story and plot were absolutely abysmal and extremely predictable. That’s what this movie is: PREDICTABLE.
Dear Primus, it’s just a headache for me. I give this a 1/10. I’m sorry for this review/rant if you guys enjoyed it.
Peace out.
Mirror, mirror on the wall. Is Disney trying at all?
If you ask me, I’ll take the Maleficent movies over the live-action adaptions of “The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast” any day of the week. And that goes for “The Prestige” too.
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We all have different tastes, friend. For me, I'll take the Transformers films over the Maleficent films any time.
This film is the very definition of bat-shit insane.
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Even bat shit is more interesting than this dump.
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