Ryu_do_Sen
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I know he said he wanted to combine a bunch of different genres in this one so that it'd feel different from the first but sometimes sticking to a genre or two to ground the film in can really help out the narrative. When you start mixing and matching multiple genres, you leave the film without an identity in which it really excels at. Also, it does seem as though Whedon didn't manage to find one solid theme to build the film around like he did last time.
I hadn't thought about things like that and I must say that I agree. This film has too many genres: war movie, science fiction, chase movie, etc. And it had too may themes: family drama, the trials of war, the inner demons, etc. He tried to do too much and ended up failing. There are definitely many interesting ideas but they are just too jumbled together.