'Hope' is the weirdest blockbuster money can buy

"Hope" is a shock-and-awe monster rampage stretched to 160 minutes, and that might be all you could ask for.

The set pieces are stunning: cars flung around like toys, torrents of gunfire raking creatures that simply will not die, storefronts ripped open and streets buried in rubble, all captured in tracking shots so fluid it's hard to say how anyone pulled them off.

The monsters themselves are nothing special to look at — imagine "Attack on Titan" by way of "Resident Evil," with a little "Predat ...