Yet another human vs AI movie. Visually it’s pretty good but very disjointed. Not once did I feel engaged with the story at all and getting to the end of it was a slog. Although the story line has been done to death in movies that did it way better I do feel this could have been better too if it wasn’t for the lifeless direction. I’ve never rated Washington as an actor and his performance in this does nothing to change that. Overall, meh.
Started off well with what seemed like could be a very interesting story, good cast too. Episodes 1 & 2 were good but it started to tail off somewhat IMO with E3, E4 was just treading water / padding and E5 wasn't much better though it picked up a little. I'll stick with it probably but it'll be quite hard going unless it picks up considerably, very hard to maintain the interest at the moment.
Been ok up to now but this was definitely a filler episode!
Weakest of all the post 2010 POTA movies imo. Too much ape politics, family life and philosophising and too little else. The original and Beneath the POTA are still by far the best two POTA movies for me, and all done without CGI. You can only be wowed for so long by how well the apes are rendered and for me they ran out of steam 2 movies ago. This movie seems to serve little purpose other than to set up the next one. Couple of nice flash backs to the original (the human hunt horns and the music when they encounter the scarecrows on the bridge) but other than that, an overly long, pretty forgettable movie with a lame story and script.
Yet another 'poster pay-cheque' phone-in performance from Bruce Willis, he has become a master of not GAF! I think his scenes were shot in their entirety while he was waiting for a pizza to be delivered, you could tell his mind was on the pizza, not on his acting. As for the rest, just your typical low-budget action movie starring a bunch of C list actors that you may enjoy if you fancy some brainless entertainment, hardest part will be deciding who, aside from Willis, to give the crappiest actor award to! For me it's Jenna B Kelly who fails to introduce any emotion whatsoever to the part she's playing, she doesn't seem to get 'acting' at all. It's so telling that in its opening week in the UK this movie grossed just £87, yes 87, not 87 thousand or even hundred, just 87 ($105). I hope they got their money back!
At first I thought this series was going to be outstanding and for the first 4-5 episodes it was. Great cast, script, story and acting. While the second half continued to be watchable, even enjoyable, it seemed to run out of steam to such an extent that it dragged in parts. I found Christian’s continual moping around and melancholy mood quite annoying. Of course there were justifiable reasons for it but the show just dragging on so long meant his one style mood just got irritating. I’d rate the first 4 episodes an 8 and the last 6 as 5 to 6 depending on the episode. Rating of 7 overall for me dragged down because it was overly long. 7-8 episodes would have been enough.
Dire, just dire. I guess they were aiming for a Kingsman meets Bullet Train with this but failed miserably. The best part of this movie was absolutely the first 3 minutes that also happens to be the trailer! I suspect they also thought casting Henry Cavill in this would carry it, making up for the shortfall in movie quality, epic fail again. It’s not helped in any way by the story which is absolutely ridiculous making even the most far fetched espionage movie, comedy or not, appear sensible and credible, the smoke grenade battle scene was the worst I’ve ever seen, totally cringeworthy. The final nail in the coffin is the crap sound track. I really don’t get what the point of making this was at all and in all honesty REALLY struggled to watch it through to the end, even then I only had the second half on in the background while I was reading. I’m just glad I didn’t pay to see it yet I still want my money back!
This movie should have been described as a tragedy, a tragedy that such an outstanding cast of A list actors were wasted on garbage like this! This is definitely one for hard core Wes Anderson fans only and I think even they will find struggle to find anything to praise here. The movie is boring, self-indulgent, unfunny and with virtually no story at all; it is very stylish but this is definitely a case of style alone cannot carry a TOTAL lack of substance. Binned.
This movie should have been described as a tragedy, a tragedy that such an outstanding cast of A list actors were wasted on garbage like this! This is definitely one for hard core Wes Anderson fans only and I think even they will find anything to praise here. The movie is boring, self-indulgent, unfunny and with virtually no story at all; it is very stylish but this is definitely a case of style alone cannot carry a TOTAL lack of substance. Binned.
Mission Impossible meets Fast and Furious. Good enough but definitely not as good as some of the MI films. Overly long IMO with too little story as a thin veneer over a string of (at times seemingly never ending) action sequences, more holes than a string vest in the overall plot, very predictable and some lame acting at times. Still a very good watch but a definite 7/10 vs the normal 9, or at times, even 10/10.
A moderately funny, in a smile humour sort of way, show but watching rich people be stupid is wearing thin as a story line. Whole concept doesn’t really work for this show though, a divorced millionaire who decides to start throwing money at the world’s problems in an effort to find herself and give herself a reason to exist supported by an office full of staff whose primary purpose in life seems to have been to tick all the boxes on an inclusivity checklist, I mean it’s really all there, and it’s so obviously ALL there that it can make you think that was the whole point of doing the show.
The acting is pretty lame, the jokes mostly fall flat, the characters are all very shallow and one dimensional, their contributions being so mind numbingly repetitive it just gets annoying. Topping the list in that regard is Sofia, she has just one mode for like EVERY scene in EVERY episode, the sulky, scowling, disapproving, eye rolling, un-fun dork act really gets extremely tiresome.
I know some folks rave about Maya Rudolph and Michaela Jae Rodriguez, unfortunately they are both bottom tier also rans as far as I’m concerned so nothing to appeal there either, this show just serves to drop them both down to the bottom rung of the ladder IMO. A definite go woke or go broke attempt at a Ted Lasso reinvention that fails miserably and the type of agenda pushing garbage that is sadly the hallmark of too many Apple programmes.
Not terrible but not great, watchable enough. The character Killer and his wife, Mrs Twee, are a complete joke though, so out of place and incompetent to boot. The Killer’s attempts to sound über cool and talk tough are both an epic fail! The Rock deliberately going to kill someone and then failing, having to go back again, is one of the movie’s dumbest moments.
Great cast, well acted and nicely filmed. The atmosphere is excellent. If I had any complaint at all the season was overly long IMO, dragged in places, it could have been at least only 6 episodes long, even 4 would likely have covered it.
If this needed to be made at all it should have been a mini-series 3 parter or even a 90 minute movie. Obviously low-budget with just a passing nod to history, this show is waaaaaaay to slow and plodding. Other than Menzies, the cast is pretty lacklustre, mostly out of work extras from the look if it, and the casting is really terrible. There's clearly a fair bit of equally low budget CGI and the script, my word, it's just dire, did anyone not bother to research how people spoke back in the day, or the likely mannerisms and behaviours? Clearly not. The portrayal of Lincoln as essentially a bumbling idiot is pretty tragic and I don't think anyone bothered to read a history book with regards to Stanton, or anyone else for that matter.
One of the most annoying things about it is the CONSTANT jumping back and forth in time with often no indication to the viewer that it's happened. It's not like it's obvious, going between older and younger characters, here its just a few weeks or even days, but why? A lot of movies / series use the time jumps to good effect and for good reason, 90% of the time this just jumps back and forth for the sake of it, no discernible reason and it certainly doesn't add to the story.
I'll likely persevere to the end in a "I've started so I'll finish" kind of way (about half way through now) but I expected so much more. My gut feeling is it's going to get a LOT worse. Will they throw the history book completely out the window? Not sure, the problem is, you really need to have such book before you can throw it out! Passable at best.
I felt like I just watched a montage of a dozen or so overly long trailers for the world’s most boring movie. I don’t mind movie being slow paced and with little action provided they are interesting, this wasn’t, it was just sloooooooow. I’m sure the people that made it knew why they made it, I sure as hell don’t. Just glad I didn’t pay to watch it, but I’m sure the actors enjoyed their pay-checks. Little in it for anyone else sadly.
A moderately funny movie, in a smile humour sort of way, but with a script that is spread WAY too thin for a movie of this length. I found it really hard to maintain interest beyond the 80 minute mark wish is about as long as this should have been.
Looks OK but just can’t be bothered, it’s yet another Netflix subtitle-fest. If I want to read, I’ll read a book!
Firstly, this show has virtually nothing in common with the movie. It’s basically two people (both actors here are the worst examples of miscasting I have seen in ages), who share a life together and are supposed to be top contract killers. The actual story however is entirely about them trying to find their way through their relationship problems. I mean that’s it, in its entirety, with 15 minute story lines each stretched out to an hour. Some folks I guess might like it, for me it’s just slow and as dull as dishwater with quite literally no redeeming moments. I’d rather read a telephone book.
Seriously, only March, but this has to be THE most cringeworthy series ever, Netflix at its worst. It’s 20 times worse than Bravo Two Zero v and with every last scrap of credibility removed. It also supports the FULL Netflix pc checklist:
Attractive, no good at parties, bitch boss
Hispanic lesbian sniper
Tee-total Asian helo pilot
OAP wannabe cool EOD guy that does his job listening to music
Pair of male black / white beefcakes with way more braun than brains. Oh yeah, the black guy is gay or bi and the white wannabe way to cool dude is a momas boy.
Nerdy tough talking chick tech girl
It’s totally cringe worthy in every single way. Crack SF team happily doing MDMA at a party that they threw using government money, way too much testosterone hose down and in the absence of any story let’s just thrown a bunch of rock tracks at everything oh yeah, let’s have everyone screw each other at the party and then feel bad about it, but polish it off with a bunch of double entendres porn jokes and then let’s have a top secret intelligence meeting on Zoom. SF / CIA elite, “The best of the best” as the President declares seriously, you wouldn’t this bunch of jokers in charge of an ice cream store that you wanted to go broke.
They did manage to tick several other boxes too though
Second rate actors
Third rate acting
Rubbish script
Zero depth to any character
Rubbishy unfunny jokes
Cliche use
F bombs used as failed humour substitute
Style over substance
Way too much testosterone
Yep, this is where uber cool falls FLAT on its face.
It’s hard to fathom what the intended audience is for this garbage?
This is DEFINITELY one of those movies where the best 3 minutes are in the trailer. Looks very promising at first but drops of a cliff after about the first 15 minutes from where the story has more holes in it than a string vest! I’m assuming a lot of the rave reviews are sponsored by Netflix because this was pure drek.
Melissa McCarthy is capable of making some good, funny movies. This sadly isn’t one them. The humour is very limp and there is zero depth to any of the characters and nothing by way of personality. A movie that I would class as a total waste of time.
Started off well then dropped off a cliff after episode 3. The Pacific paled compared to Band of Brothers but this is so much worse. I guess there’s only so much story you can get out of a war based series where the only time in action is when the crew are in the air, it’s very well done but once you’ve seen it you’ve seen it. It seems the writers get that too so it starts to dive off in all sorts of directions after a few episodes and that’s where it really falls apart.
Firstly you have the typical Spielberg / Hollywood “God bless America” crap, complete with the anti British sentiment plus of course if history didn’t happen the way you wanted it to, just make shit up right? There’s more plot and and historical holes in this than every flak round fire throughout the war could have made. In an attempt to give the story some meat we get downed pilots trying to escape (threads that just seem to get forgotten), a crew crash in Scotland, a bunch sent to a convalescent centre and, heck why not, more downed crew trying to escape.
The acting is also pretty second rate with a solid line up of out of work extras all trying way to hard to be uber cool / tough. There’s nothing to like about any of them, indeed it’s hard to form any attachment to any one of them let alone find anything to care about.
Overall I think it’s a cash in on the first two series that put all its eggs in the basket of the first two episodes and now there’s nothing left. Maybe Spielberg should stick to real history rather than just making shit up, it’s actually far more interesting than this “I wish it had happened this way” gung ho drivel. You only need to look at IMDB to see the justified panning this series is getting.
I had really high hopes for this movie, knowing how Ridley Scott can do historical if he sets his mind to it (Kingdom of Heaven, Gladiator). OK he can play fast and lose with historical accuracy on the characters and even the technical details, but by and large I find his movies very good overall.
Enter Napoleon and seriously, like WTF? The focus of the movie was on his relationship with Josephine (a story that didn’t need to be told if ever there was one), meanwhile doing a whistle stop blitz tour through the history of France during his time, paying scant attention to any detail, to say it’s superficial is an understatement! Militarily, aside from the dates and countries involved, Scott hasn’t played fast and loose this time, he just threw the books in the bin and made it all up! Again, none of the key characters that impacted him from the military are portrayed at all. In fact there is virtually zero development of any character in the whole movie. It’s just a montage of stuff featuring Napoleon, some of which happened, some that might have and the rest, total fantasy.
If parts of this movie had been used to tell a different story and one that actually had a decent ending it might not have been too bad. As it is I think I’d rather not have bothered watching it and as ever, Netflix peddling the woke bike way too hard. None of the characters were particularly likeable, a couple outright objectionable and did I mention the crap ending? Pretty dire overall.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, they made this. Flat, soulless acting (from the rest of the cast that is, Vin Diesel always is!) with a dumb story that’s just full on ridiculous, it doesn’t even rate as embarrassingly unbelievable. I REALLY hoped this was going to be the last one but even the this movie itself isn’t over. Watchable if you’re in the mood for some mindless action with literally zero footing in reality, other than that, pretty crappy overall.
An inter-family differences (this time it’s race) that, of course, get resolved. The road to getting there though is so painful, jokes either just fell flat or totally missed the mark. Even for a comedy much of the dialogue was really cringeworthy and the ending, the one that was telegraphed right from the start, was so limp and pathetic. Comparing this to other good family difference movies like Meet The Fockers and this doesn’t even rate a 1. On its own it’s watchable but only just.
I find the novels written by Le Carre interesting, this not. If you’re REALLY interesting in knowing about the man himself it might be interesting, otherwise it’s as dull as dishwater and even a touch pretentious.
Season 1 was good, season 2 fairly good but season 3? The first 2 seasons were a) interesting, b) at times funny and c) fairly innovative. Season 3 had absolutely NONE of those, instead it was an unintelligible mess that was literally all over place, being just dragged out for the sake of it. It’s as if they brought in a new team of writers who had never seen the first 2 seasons, had the general outline of (the now non existent) story explained to them and just told to write but not allowed to talk to each other. It was a REAL struggle to slog it through to the end of season 3. If there’s a season 4, I’ll skip it thanks!
Brilliant movie. Great to see Guy Ritchie (mostly) back on form after the somewhat lacklustre Covenant. The Stath was on form again and Hugh Grant I think has done his best movies ever with Guy Ritchie. Great to see Aubrey Plaza getting more and more parts too, really enjoyed watching her in S2 of the White Lotus.
Guy’s movies have somewhat lost their sparkle since the glory days of the Lock, Stock and Snatch movies but this is decent enough.
Fairly watchable representation of a bomb disposal dude doing his bit in Iraq but there was nothing by way of a story. I constantly found myself thinking “yeah….. and?” That this movie did so well in terms of Oscars shows more about the state of those awards and how far Hollywood is up itself than the fact that this is an outstanding movie, which even by any stretch of the imagination, it isn’t. Not a patch on Green Zone.
