Ant-man: Small is big

Starring: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Douglas
Rated: 5.5/10
This is no Avengers though there is a run-in between the Ant-man and one of the Avengers to keep you interested in the strain of thought and, of course, the Marvel comics chain.
You would have preferred to go into this film with a lot more action than it lets out but the overwhelming feeling you walk away with long after the film ends is the fact that the director and the special effects team do manage to deliver a punch with this miniature man’s big action saga.
Michael Douglas as the harbinger of the ant-man technology and the owner of a mighty tech empire (now ousted from it by his daughter) gives the film a tight togetherness and holds it well despite there being no familiar big heroes from the Marvel clan.
This Marvel character is the size of an inch but deadly than deadlier. It can be used for warfare, to penetrate into molecular holes and be used for all kinds of surveillance activities.
With such tech prowess, it is only natural that the technology has to be hijacked with unscrupulous elements which in this case is Cross, Douglas’ long estranged protege and now the head of Pye Technologies.
He is bald, menacing, unscrupulous and a cold blooded murderer who wants to make it big with the Ant-man technology which, incidentally, has been hidden away by Douglas for decades fearing misuse.
The action in the film makes you want more but the story still makes its mark with all the familial emotionalism, father-daughter woes, dangerous futurisms and of course the one-inch ant-man who saves the world alongside a colony of real-time ants and their architectural, bullet, fire and carpentry tenets.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, July 26, 2015

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