'Deus Ex'-cellent − 5 Reasons To Be Thankful 'Human Revolution' Is Coming To The Big Screen
4. Fixing A Flaw
It’s not often an adaptation movie gets to fix a flaw in the original game: Human Revolution's mandatory boss fights. Big boss battles are a video-game essential, but in Human Revolution they were annoying bottlenecks. Every level has multiple paths and solutions. You can sneak through ventilation ducts, hack security systems, non-lethally subdue assailants, or just charge through the building like a robotic Rambo throwing vending machines at (and through) everyone you don’t like. But whether you specialized in stealth, security, or strength, you were eventually locked in a room with a grenade launcher. Which made all that stealth look a bit silly. In the movie, however, these big battles will make ideal, pulse-quickening scenes.
5. Automatic Sequels
Human Revolution is actually a prequel, set 25 years before the original Deus Ex video game and its follow-up Invisible War. If Human Revolution is even a quarter as good as it could be, we’ll be set for a glorious gaming movie trilogy over 10 years in the making. The movie poster is already made.
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I am worried that this list is a list of things that will be ignored for the sake of making a dumbed down movie. I would love this to be great and I would love a great cyberpunk movie but after Doom, SIlent Hill, (and nearly) Uncharted I am instantly wary of game adaptations.
Also, it may be accidental but you have included a late story spoiler/reveal in your synopsis. I will not say what though to avoid drawing attention to it for anyone else.
Vote to Jim Caviezel for Adam Jensen role... if he gets in, one thing less to worry about