This seems like a matter of taste then. I don't see any real criticism of it, just that you prefer how it's done in other movies.
take a bunch of urban cliches and a bunch of fantasy cliches and slap them together.
Why is this automatically a bad thing?
The plot was beyond predictable
Again, not automatically a problem. I can predict that every Mozart sonata will end on a cadence to tonic.
The visuals were unappealing, the acting was flat, the dialogue was trite and terrible. The plot was beyond predictable and terrible (spoiler alert for the sequel, Tikka became the dark one at the end, which was obviously going to happen from the beginning.)
This is not exactly convincing. I can call anything terrible, that doesn't make it so.
I am done with this conversation now.
The "world building" was lazy and beyond boring; take a bunch of urban cliches and a bunch of fantasy cliches and slap them together.
The visuals were unappealing, the acting was flat, the dialogue was trite and terrible. The plot was beyond predictable and terrible (spoiler alert for the sequel, Tikka became the dark one at the end, which was obviously going to happen from the beginning.)
It's just all around a really, really bad movie.