It's the plot that needed saving. - **

This is the third movie of the Power Rangers film franchise all of which were produced by Saban Entertainment, an American/Israeli company operating outside the US.  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers came out in 1995 while the second film,  Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie came out in 1997.  Both of which and including this newest installment are all based on the Power Rangers TV series.

Rita Repulsa was close to acquiring the Zeo Crystal which will give her the power to destroy worlds.  The wizard Zordon kept the crystal from her along with 5 coins and willed them to find 5 strong individuals to give them powers to be able to protect the crystal from being taken by Rita Repulsa.  For the most part the movie was about how 5 individuals became the Power Rangers we know now.

While this is an American film, the movie is based on a Japanese TV series.  What this film tried to do is to veer away from the Sentai style of portraying superheroes and tries to create something that is more palatable to the Hollywood crowd by utilizing more modern visual effects and computer graphics.  This particular series is unique in a way that it created heroes one of whom is autistic and the other one could possibly be a lesbian.  So the story takes a more modern take than its predecessors by doing this.

The wizard willed the coins to look for 5 strong individuals to protect the crystal, and it turned to be more of a work of fate than a work of wizardry, but the truth is, Zordon needed the 5 rangers to combine powers so he can come back to life and so the backbone of the whole plot of sort of skewed.  The character development lacked focus thus taking it a longer time for each character to find something solid they can work on. The story took a long time to move forward and so there was really no morphing happening up until the last quarter of the film.  And when the real action finally starts you become uninterested already that nothing about it becomes thrilling.  Did not like the cast either, some of them were sort of flat and uninteresting while others were just pushed back a bit to give equaly exposure to others.

Overall, I did not like this film.  I got really excited by the trailer and thought how the Power Rangers have come a long way from sentai, but it did not really create much excitement for me to say that it was worth it.  If you are not really a Power Rangers fan you'd probably better off choosing another film to watch.