So last week, I watched this Chinese produced film, The Rookies, starring Darren Wang, playing as an extreme sport enthusiast, climbing buildings while streaming it live. While streaming, he accidentally entered a meeting of mafias which made him a target, thinking that he is one of the buyers of this virus which can grow plants into human bodies.

Well, I was surprised that it was a Chinese film , maybe it was my mistake that I didn’t read about it. I just saw that it’s a movie which starred Milla Jovovich, the lady that is responsible for the epic action on Resident Evil movies. And the antagonist was David Lee, he plays antagonist as well, in the most viewed Korean Drama, Descendants of the Sun where he played as an ex soldier turned mafia, well, he plays those roles a lot better than anyone else.

The movie went from action to comedy. I believed it was called the Rookies because it was centered to four rookies who wanted to Milla’s job to save the world. With such comedy-filled plot, I enjoyed the game including the special effects however, what’s missing in this movie is the story. The plot is not that stable not like any other action films. If Milla is in the movie, viewers expect much of it to be heart-wrenching film, and well, at first, it was as if Milla is the star of the show until I realized she was just a cameo. The producers shouldn’t have include Milla in the poster because it fooled the ones who are intrigued why she stars in this movie. I think the director has fooled everyone to think that she’s the main character in the trailer as well.

If you asked me how I like the movie, I wanted to go out of the cinema when I realized Milla was just gonna do cameos and it was bad. The comedy was good, I must say and I enjoy a bit of it somehow but given the circumstances, I was disappointed not to see more of Milla.

If given this movie my rating, I would endorse it with 70% wonderroanne rating.

I hope next time, film trailers should not mislead viewers to whatever the story is, because it will just turn your movie into a flop.