i cant decide on my rating to give it a 6 or a 7. Mark Rylance carrying this all the way. Without him this would have been perhaps at max a 5 out of 10 or worse. In all honesty the movie is a bit boring and slow. But it's still captivating.
I'll stick with a 7 as it's still "good enough" entertainment.
Dreadfully bad acting. stupid conversations. the corniest supporting music that sounds like it was royalty free to keep budget low.
It seems most budget was spent on Don Johnson.
And speaking of budget..... Ruby Rose really needs to spent some money and take some acting lessons. And that Mercedes Varnado should go back to being a waitress or something. I think I havent seen a worse actress in a long while.
It's just popcorn entertainment. And with alcohol, a lot of alcohol. So you dont notice how weak the stories are. For example episode 1x02 where he break in, has obviously stolen items in his posession and then police arrives and arrests the bad guys. Uhhhh right. Reality will be that police arrests at the very least the burglar, and in doubt arrests everyone to take them to the police station and figure things out later. I see people referring to The Finder, I was thinking more about Pointman (1995), but I guess that shows my age mostly :)
Anyway. It's watchable. Just corny and not very intelligent.
Well... what to say about this. It's not bad. It's not superb. It has a bit of a Da Vinci's Demons - vibe to it. Not surprisingly also a Stars series, come to think of it.
The ending was just so predictable... I saw it coming somewhere in episode 2 already. The whole evil duke of norfolk personality made little sense to me and overal it was just.... well.... not so smart or special.
Anyway. I still enjoyed it enough, dont get me wrong. Just over-hyped.
I very much enjoyed the first few seasons. Great fun and almost like watching a behind the scenes of the Trump precidency screwing up everything possible to be screwed up. Then at some point in season 5 or 6 it all became just too much hate, really like watching the Trump administration.
Selina was at first a little bit of a narcissistic screw-up of a underdog that you sort-off still wanted to root for. Then she became more and more that c-word and non-stop treating everyone like garbage. Then it became too much. I just started to strongly disliking her, especially the way she was treating her daughter... the showrunners probably should have given her at least a little bit of humanity still... too bad they didnt. I believe that is what killed this series eventually. Season 6 was very weak.
On the plus side, at least season 7 brought us a proper and good closing of the series.
Poor Gary.
Amazing cast, superb acting.
Don't take the movie too seriously and it's actually very enjoyable.
Of course it's a story copy/paste from at least 144 other movies which are exactly 100% the same plot and story.
The woke level is amazingly low, as in 0. Quite surprising.
Its not the best movie, it's not the smartest movie. It is also far from realistic.
It is entertaining.
Wokeness level is ok.
I actually enjoyed this movie more than I expected.
On the woke meter: acceptable.
On one side it was better than I expected, but still.... not very good. Chris Pine was not charming enough and not naughty enough. I guess overal the movie was "ok", but nothing really more than just that.
this is a great police series, but its crazy (white)male unfriendly. whatever the situation, the white man is the bad guy, or at minimum 'a' bad guy. seriously fck off........
Way too much woke shite, of course every single white guy is a bad guy in one form or another.
If to ignore that, it is a very decent police series.
Season 1 is pretty good, not sure why people vote it so low
The movie is a bit 20 in a dozen, but at least has some more realism to it where DEA (shouldnt it be the US Marshalls?) doesnt have an endless budget to do whatever they want protecting a witness.
The thing I really hate about it is the "exciting sounds and music" playing all the time. Too much. Too loud.
Not great, not bad. Entertaining enough, but not as good an experience as for example Catch me if you can was.
All acting was a bit flat, nobody seemed to take things seriously enough or... something like that.
Love Elisha though :)
season 1 was great, season 2 is total shite with endless courtroom sessions where that annoying defense lawyer keeps pulling aggressive angry shit. and the rest is endless drama.
totally hate this season.
Season 1 was absolutely stunning.
A totally amazing cast. I totally binged this season.
I started suspecting the bad guy after episode 5 or 6, but it was at some point a matter of everyone becoming a realistic suspect.
season 1 : great.
season 2 : shite
season 3 : superb!
Too bad it ended after the third season, though it's understandable that the inspiration and stories were done.
Way too much psychological blabla. Season 1 was superb and simply amazing.
Season 2 with the mind games, sort of alternate reality and time travel-wannebee was a huge disappointment
Season 3 was just bullcrap.
I loved season 1.
Season 2 with this endless b.s. about book of leaves started to be annoying and was a huge change from season 1.
Season 3 was just crap. Not a good change from how interesting season 1 was.
It all started like some endless woke shit. Tnx God things improved quickly.
Jean Reno is just listed to get additional people watching this, He has a tiny role, so do not watch this for him.
It is a pretty decent action movie. A bit too predictable, but not bad.
It all started like some endless woke shit. Tnx God things improved quickly.
Jean Reno is just listed to get additional people watching this, He has a tiny role, so do not watch this for him.
It is a pretty decent action movie. A bit too predictable, but not bad.
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Im not a big fan of Anthony Mackie.
Too many annoying one-liners where he seems to want to sound like Will Smith.
The opening scenes are a bit too much Mad Max meets Death Race. But ok. That seems the whole goal of this series.
Also a shame that immediately the whole racism card needs to come up again with 'John Doe' saying "talking to a mildly intimidating white lady" why the skin color is important?
Anyway. If you dont take this stuff seriously, then its entertaining enough. Set your expectations low and you might even be surprised.
the screwing about with each others cars is starting to be annoying. in this case it more or less destroyed the DB9.
sometimes it's funny, but more often than not its just juvenile.
anyway. one more episode to go after this I guess.
too bad, I'll miss the specials.
Quite enjoyable series. If you like series like Banshee, Justified and Barry, deffo give this a try. Quite short episodes, so a whole season is gone before you know it.
Season 3 is the last and has a pretty decent ending to it.
Wow, what a star cast with even Tom Riley and Jimmy Carr. Curious about this.
perhaps one of the best episodes of the entire series so far.
Very weird is that Disney+ has deleted nearly all female full frontal (bush) nudity scenes, though theres still a lot of boobs.
Penisses however are shown all over the place.
This first season was pretty good, binged it during just one week. Even in 2024 it's still very watchable and I am surprised I never saw it before.
Except for the eye candy Laura Bilgeri and Hannah Rose, this movie is.... crap :) I guess most of the budget was used to make Wesley Snipes get up out of his wheelchair.
Especially the asthma scene in the boat was....... o m g. Who wrote this utter nonsense?
In general the whole story is not even that bad, but dialogues and script are.
Not sure what I think about this. First 4 episodes were great. Episode 5 it suddenly was a mess and there was only one person stealing the show (and not John and Jane, obviously) and all chemistry was gone.
Episode 6 and 7 it was asif I was watching an episode in As The World Turns or something. Did suddenly get a different showrunner on board or something? Disappointing crap.
The final episode seemed a bit as if part of it had a movie re-enactment. Not as-good as the movie and lacking that superb acting and stunning chemistry between Pitt and Jolie obviously - but... not so badly done.
Then everything just got messy, easy, predictable. Too obvious. Disappointing and lack of originality. I could have written the script. And no thats not a good thing.
I started fast-forwarding this episode. Ohhhh the drama. ffs. Next.
Sure its important for setting up for the violent divorce, but come on does it have to be this way? I just felt annoyed and ready to kill Jane myself. Ungrateful passive aggressive piece of sh*t
I'm 4 episodes in and actually..... positive surprised. I expected some off-the-charts woke crap. Aside one racism-conversation which turned out ok, I've actually not really felt annoyed about woke virus shit. So.... all in all, pretty good. This is how Tue Lies series could have been!
Donald Glover is great in this role. Quite convincing as the modern retro weak not-very-manly-man. I'm not a huge fan of Maya Erksine, her whole character is rather bland. But together they have decent chemistry.
This series is absolutely nothing like the original movie... but pretty decent. Well above average.
