Six college students investigate the death of a journalist in a village in Honduras.
Having Sersi be the central force in Eternals is unprecedented in its viewpoint and focus, from demonstrating a gentle type of leadership, to being overlooked in a group setting but succeeding in the goal at hand anyways, to having romantic options, to strength and integrity, and majority screen time - for a group that's given less screentime than aliens.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
Everyone needs a BFF and a "wing person" like Yumi (Chloris Li). Li brings the "straight person" persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh's perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
