Power Rangers is a Mixed Bag

The 2017 movie, Power Ranger was produced by Lionsgate, and was directed by Dean Israelite; who has directed two other views in the past. The Power Ranger is the remake of the television series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

The story focuses on a group of young adults, delinquents as most of them are in a sort of after school detention center, with the main character being under house arrest. The others are there for various reasons, one for blowing up his lunchbox, one for leaking some unflattering pictures of her friend (this is also a major plot point), one seems to be a worker outside of the school, and the last is a sort of wander.

These characters all meet up at a coal mine and after some amounts of events before discovering several colored glass like stones, before the guards arrive. They make a break for it in a van gathering the young adults up before being hit by a train, wrecking the car. They all awake the next day in their beds without injury or understanding how they got there. As they get ready strange things happen and they all seem to develop a superhuman amount of strength.

They all gather in school, the ones that go there before going back the side and after leaping across a canyon (though one of the characters falls in) they find a passageway

into a alien spaceship. There they discover the fact that they are rangers and they have 10 days to learn their new abilities or the earth with be wiped of all life.

The first thing to note is the movie is a retelling of the origin of the Rangers as well as the villain, Rita Repulsa. With the retelling several things have changed forming the origin of the power rangers to some backstory to the normally side characters.

The most drastic difference in the story from the television show to the movie, the the more serious nature. Unlike the show where everything's all hunky dory, the movie has actual character depth, in the regards of actual character development out of friendship, and characters actually are killed off. Though the topic of friendship gives power, the build up of the characters has some interest itself, with characters not accepting their new roles as defenders of earth from the very beginning.

Some things that were not to my taste was the use of the Rangers’ foes. They were rather generic and fodder, if only after a rather long training montage, making their involvement not too much importance. Besides their design, a sort of rock monster, could be consider to be boring from the get go. The villain, Rita Repulsa, is also rather one dimensional, though there was a small amount of character, she was for the most part simply going to destroy the source of life on earth wiping out all life, while someone gaining a large amount of power.

To look at some others opinions, the story was too serious and none of the mindless enjoyment could be found. As well as having a female as the villain was something disliked, though I can’t understand such as statement. The movie also did differ from the show, but to me this was to be expected as the movie was for a more mature audience and was a reboot, at the least in my eyes.