It’s perhaps not entirely fair to criticise a film in which buildings have tentacles and a supporting character is made of broccoli for lacking logic. But despite a screenplay that seems to be almost entirely composed of exposition (plus the occasional laboured wisecrack), the latest Marvel outing is baffling and illogical. The Ant-man/Wasp blended family unit finds itself sucked into the Quantum realm, something that Wasp matriarch Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) has been notably tight-lipped about since her return in the previous Ant-Man movie. It turns out that Janet has some very powerful enemies in this gaudy CGI-generated sub-atomic dimension. The film’s main asset is Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror: his performance, with its velvet-soft line deliveries and unfathomable, boundless rage, is the magnetic core of this incoherent effects-dump of a movie.
