Mick LaSalle April 9, 2021
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer in the comedy “Thunder Force.” Photo: Hopper Stone, Associated Press
The strengths and the weaknesses of “Thunder Force” are apparent from its first minutes: The strengths are Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. The weaknesses are emotional phoniness and a tendency toward sentimentality.
Still, the new Netflix comedy, out Friday, April 9, has a decent share of laughs and a shrewd science fiction premise behind it.
Apparently, some cosmic event caused a superhero gene to be let loose on Earth, but and this is the interesting part it remained dormant in the vast majority of people. The gene expressed itself only within sociopaths, so as the movie begins, there are sociopathic “superheroes,” or “miscreants” as they’re called here, walking the Earth and doing terrible things with impunity.
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