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Sitting through The 8-Bit Guy's AI-generated movie because it's Friday and I'm doing busywork at work. 5 seconds in, it's already 'Threat Level Midnight' levels of self-insertion. (And Threat Level Midnight is a satirical embedded work in a comedy sitcom. Let that marinate.)

The narrative structure is... awkward. The exposition feels forced. The dialogue is really unpolished. From the get-go we're dropped into a talk show scene where the protagonist explains what he does like he's a narrator instead of an interviewee, to the camera rather than the host.

After that action scene, several blocks of $CITY's downtown look like a war zone, and newscasters are seemingly busy interviewing the superhumans involved like it's a postgame interview! Especially the villains. (Well, in inferred them as villains, it's a bit unclear tbh.)

So the protagonist (and yes, his name is David) captures one of the (presumed) villains who's unconscious, and then in the following hospital bed scene, shot continuity suffers some more as she seemingly flips between conscious and unconscious.

OK, let's talk about scores. If you're putting on a song with lyrics, it's because it's a climax scene or a very emotional scene, and you're trying to convey that to your audience. You don't do that on a 10-second action scene during the exposition act, wtf!