If you love Arrow, then sure, watch this.... more of the same. Just with even worse acting.
It's a mix of Guardians of the Galaxy and Arrow. With Guardians of the Galaxy being the worst of all Marvel movies in my opinion.. and this isnt any better. Actually, it's far worse.
DC has never been my favorite, not even Batman or Superman.
Every time it's being confirmed again.
There are a few fun references in the series here and there (best one sofar being Wentworth Miller saying 'this is not my first prison break'), but where in The Flash it's often good for a laugh or two, here its mostly just disappointing.
The most annoying thing about the series is the continous "lessons" about how we all have to help each other, that we can do things better if we allow for others to help us and how we have to believe in ourselves and dont dwell in the past, but look into the future and blablalabla. Every.Single.Episode. Over and over again. And sooooo incredibly over the top.
The only positive thing about this series is Sarah (since Sarah > Laurel).
On the other hand, one of the most negatives from The Flash, being Martin Stein - who absolutely cant act - is also in this series.
And of course that hawk-goddess isnt much of an actress either, as we've seen already in the Arrow/Flash mashup. I really dont get it why the producers still got her onto this show after that dramatic acting performance. In this series she continues that sub-par acting performance. Just like Stein.
Season 1 started a bit slow and I was not sure in what way it would develop. With all the superhero movies and series going on, I was a bit sceptic if yet another series would be worth my time. Then I watched the linked series Jessica Jones and Daredevil more or less side by side. Not bad; I enjoyed it. Jessica Jones was a bit too much drama and too much psycho stuff for my taste, but my g.f. enjoyed it a lot with the strong woman in the lead and heck, overall I can say that it didn't bore me :)
Now season 2 has come and I just finished watching the last episode. It's been feeling a bit repetitive in the last few episodes and also extremely predictable. I wont give any spoilers, but the ending I could really see coming a mile away, even the side story about Frank and how everything comes together again at the end. Not extremely bad, considering it's a series and not a movie, but it could have been a tad little bit less totally obvious what would be happening. Some unexpected plot turns is what keeps things interesting... this season did not have any.
Also one additional point of criticism is that season 2 has become way too graphic. Cutting off hands, ripping throats, pulling out eyes, cutting into prisoners legs, very grapich torture on just about every single episode, putting Sai's into bad guys eyes... etc. Too much guys! Not needed to try to gross people out completely. Turn it down a notch please, ok?
However, I'm still looking forward to season 3 and the -sooner or later to be expected- formation of the Defenders. But I guess that wont be until at least 2017 as we're still lacking the introduction of Iron Fist, as far as I know. I dont believe this to be a spoiler, as most fans know about it and else a quick look around Google will tell you the (Netflix) Defenders being Daredevil, Jessico Jones, Lucas Cage(from Jessica Jones), Ironfist.
A great series that gets you totally engaged from the very first minute. At first I was surprised to read that Hugh Dr House Laurie got into a doctors role again. I didnt read the full synopsis. I was a bit sceptical about this most likely being a sort of "lets try to be as succesful as that other doctor" - totally wrong. The opening episode created a basis for the rest of the season, one that I did not expect. From the third episode or so I thought I knew exactly in what way it was heading, but I kept wanting to see more to find out if I was right or not. Every episode there was one or even more extra pieces to the puzzle. But still, no total overview. And at some point I started wondering if I even was working on the right puzzle. It's amazing how basically everyone in this series is crazy - at least to some extend. And the path that Eldon Chance is taking towards ... (what?) is also very interesting to follow. I totally enjoyed it.
Of course, the series takes 'real' (neuro)psychology a bit lightly, and split personalities also don't really work in the way the series shows - but I'll accept some artistical liberties on that. Overal a very interesting series which kept me entertained from the first episode all the way till the end.
I don't see yet how they will be able to make a season 2 story as well thought-out as this without becoming dull or just plain and simple weird...
Summary: I had my rating initially at 6 out of 10, lowered it to 3 out of 10 and now at 2 out of 10. Really - dont bother with this crap.
The best actress in this series is probably the small girl Lauren Gravitt playing Laura. All others should ask their money back from acting school.
Episode 1 started out really interesting and I was instantly hooked...... then....... it crashed and burned basically. What a b.s. scenes. Some are just retarded. The car chase was utterly crazy. Some dialogues are.... 'strange' if to be kind :)
It's just a lot of small things. Like in episode 3, Rees is giving a presentation to a group of people and you hear her talking. Then the big boss comes in, walking around the glass box and you hear his footsteps. While he is outside of that glass box. And then he comes in. Uhhhh what the fck :)
From episode 1, into episode 2, there is a burial - between a death and being buried theres usually a few days. He seems to have been instantly buried. Nobody bothered to clear out his appartment in the mean time, so its still all there end of episode 3. Even if it was a violent death. Nobody looked into it. Really? Or how did he get buried at a public cemetary. If the bad guys buried him (alive) on purpose, then why was that in a cemetary and not just somewhere in a back forest or something. And why in a coffin? So many questions....
And just some huge plot holes... or at least seemingly huge plot holes. Why is our main guy not asking questions to this Claire woman. She claims "I was there, I called the police". So why was she there? How did she know where he would be in his car at what moment so she could hit him 'to safe his life'. He's just all accepting it without question. And if she called the police, then again - how did he get buried in a public cemetary?
The series just doesnt make any sense.
I am still interested in the series, but it all seems just a huge hot mess.
EDIT: haha in episode 4 daddy forgot how old his daughter is. She's 8 in episode 1 and suddenly daddy thinks she;'s 9. Must have hit his head too hard? :P ok this series blows. Stupidity all over.
EDIT 2: episode 5/6/7 - the dialogues are getting worse and worse and more and more dump stupid and pointless. The supporting music is ''really'' elevating the drama (not). Also since it's keep being the same music over and over and over again. Even there the amount of available budget seems to have been limited :)
And to top it all off: an experienced FBI agent is taking her brand new boyfriend to a safe house. Really? And she doesnt get suspended or at the very minimum suspended. Again.... really?
"Sir I got something. other agent: OK we got something, lets load up and move out!" Uhh.... what do yo have? Is it actionable even???
Initially the trailer caught my attention and episode 1 brought what i expected.
After that things got less great. The Mansell character got on my nerves quickly. And it makes only little sense how nobody finished him off before. Plus the whole sidestory of a crooked cop keeping Mansell safe and our of prison doesn't make any sense. He didn't have the little book before. He never approached the crooked chop neither. It's a huge plothole.
The wokeness relationships also don't make any sense. Not the gay one and not the one between our main man good honest cop and the person of interest lawyer of the main villain. Such a good honest cop would never do that. Only reason for this to be a thing is coz the producers needed an interracial relationship added to the show and the writers could not think of any logical couples.
It's too bad this nonsense keeps on being stuffed down our throats. Because these kind of things do not add to the story. Especially not if done this stupidly.
Other choices made by several main characters also felt far fetched multiple times. But the woke bs really took away from the quality of the show.
Overall season 1 started great and then quickly quality dropped. Last few episodes I went to do other things with the sound playing in the back ground and I d watch occasionally. The whole Albanian angle felt like a bad steal from Barry, or Banshee or... So many other series.
I'll still give it a decent 7 out of 10. May have been closer to an 8 without the b.s wokeness.
The final episode (season 1) made so little sense...... and yeah well, the "plot twist" was getting so extremely predictable ever since episode 5 that it was getting annoying it was taking so much time for them to figure it out.
The way they figured it out was done quite cool though.
Overal the whole "who dunnit" was a bit weak.
The endless flashbacks to a (possibly much more interesting) old story arc was taking a lot of time. Ok, it was vital for the 'here and now' story arc, but the character development of that here and now was extemely limited. Most time and effort was going into getting to know Darby and Bill. That basically made everyone else just unimportant 'extras'. It keps their motivations hidden for us, just as for Darby, but it also limited me giving a crap for anyone and wether or not they'd die. That probably was not the best of choices.
From a positive side, it was not too woke. No gay/trans promotion and not specifically discriminative against white people. Though there was a lot of negative focus on white men being portraid as being in power and suppressing women. Though that was the whole point of the series basically, so understandable in this case.
[strike]She was great on Hawkeye next to JRenner. She's no longer that kid from then but a woman 3 years down the line and no Renner... very much wondering how this series will end up to be.[/strike] Here's hoping it wont be another endless woke virus promotion.
EDIT1: I expected this series to be about Hawkeyes sidekick Kate. But its about the bad lieutenant Maya. My mistake.
Quite disappointing.
EDIT:2 So after having seen the first 2 episodes of season 1 (I doubt there will be a season 2), it's not as messed up woke as I was worried for it to become.
But..... maybe that would even have been better than this crap. The whole series just stinks.
I really wonder what the whole plan was with this season. It looks like they had some specific story in mind, recorded everything. Probably some scenes were not done yet during the whole writers and actors strikes
And then in post-editing someone totally re-wrote the story.
There are loads of flashbacks or supporting scenes that seem to be about native americans and their roots and customs as a sort of documentary, which in some ways is better developed than the main story itself.
Frankly I dont like the Maya character. Maya her endless frowning / angry face gets old quickly. She has only 1 possible expression on her face: angry. There is hardly anything else coming out of her.
I guess acting of being a deaf person who is angry about life is probably difficult to do antything else than this, but her whole attitude gets old fast. No matter who she has near her or whom she communicates with. Endless negativity and anger and violence.
I dont like several of the other characters either. Plus I find the way most of the native americans are being protraid borderline racist. All of them seem to be either stupid, over-weight(fat), or criminal or so stuck in the traditional ways that they are just plain silly.
And a lot of what we see just doesnt make sense.
You dont go driving a motorcycle hundred of kilometers/miles with a bullet still stuck in your chest.
I am considering rating this series on the same level as Iron Fist. Not sure if to be above or below. I guess below is impossible. So let's say its halve a step better than Iron First. Although the storyline of Iron Fist at least made sense (mostly). Hm.
Anyway. It's poo. Dont bother. There's much better stuff out there than this s h i t.
The movie is not bad, but Kevin Hart is just terribly annoying. And why does he have to emphasize race? "Why are you asking a black man to steal a police car". What does that have to do with it? Later in the movie "I am boiling that white woman". Why is race at all important?! Stop referencing if its not important. Not everything is about race.
Kevin Hart seems to permanently play the exact same character who just does not stop talking and tries to be funny by just talking too much. Which it is not. Too bad. It is the same as Melissa McCarthy who also can only play 1 single character and is also absolutely never funny with her one-liners.
Could have otherwise been a fun movie if it had a different actor in it.
Woody Harrelson did kill it and is the only thing saving this movie.
Kaley Cucuo her role is so tiny that its hardly worth mentioning.
Story itself is kind dumb and 13 in a dozen. Or perhaps 15 in a dozen. You see the plot "twists" coming 5 miles away.
Anyway. I could smile a few times and it was fine having this movie play while I was reviewing some document for work.
what a total b.s.
if a person gets desperate, like that b.s. scene, you will end up giving every tiny little bit of detail of what you do know and not just scream again and again "shes dead".
plus totally b.s that a professional like specialist/psycho would just go into the house without canvassing.
and........ the guy in his tracksuit just standing in the middle of the road, without moving, and psycho/specialist keeps missing like that, even with 2 guns? yeah right.
and she can reload a gun but he cant? yeah right.....
aside the woke b.s. the series was more or less intelligent up to this point, these set of scenes destroyed it all.
and a shootout in the middle of nowhere - suddenly the briliant piece of conversation "the police is near we need to go". huh? what? how do you know this? theres no police sirens or anything.
and yeah sure, suddenly David has a few tie-wraps in his back pocket to tie that person hands together. yeah I also always walk around with large tie-wraps :)
and add to all of that they get on a train with a bullet wound and the conclusion is "fcker got me, I didnt even feel it".
seriously what 15 y/o scenarist wrote this episode? or was it written during the writers strike by a random? lol.
What a load of b.s.
Wow. And of course the fueling of hatred towards white people.
It's like asif all sci-fi and (a lot of) fantasy movies/series are all put together in one long list of scenes with an overal covering saus of a quest. This is while completing a set of challenges along the way to grow the fellowship. Does that sound familiar yet?
It's one near endless list of [strike]stolen[/strike] inspired by famous scenes and characters.
From 7 Samurai to Lords of the Rings, from Star Trek to Star Wars.
For example the spider from the mines combined with a Borg Queen lookalike.
Or a native american-look-a-llike who tames a bird, which then can go on to kill the oppressor.
Unfortunately the woke virus strikes again with racism against white people. The heroes are full on diversity, but every white guy in the movie is a traitor, suppressor or tiran (or a stupid farmer). Every person of color is a hero. Right.
And add on top of all this the terrible dialogues, mediocre to appalling 'acting' and that entire list of stolen scenes, etc..... This is just a piece of rubbish which only seems to be aimed at making 3D action scenes with as much fighting and explosions are possible.
I went into watching this with extremely low expectations. I realized when getting ready to watch Dominion, that I never even bothered to watch Fallen Kingdom. So...... I watched it and actually... it lived up to the expectations ;) So I decided to give it a 7 out of 10, as it was exactly what I expected. No its not a great movie. It's far from original. The typical computernerd needed to do some random computer magic by typing sudo and some statement on a terminal was of course present. Not sure if it was lack of inspiration or a wink to the earlier movies that they had to "reboot the system" (which was back then done by that blond girl, now it had to be a colored boy obviously, because, well, woke.)
The wokeness scale was not too crazy. Of course all the bad persons are all white men, because, well, woke. I did not detect any gay/trans promotion this time.
Some scenes from previous movies were kind of recycled - and that was a good thing! There was the connection to the previous movies in a proper way. Like the big open gras area where the dinos are running in the field - now the same but just.... well insert spoiler here. The big bad evil hunter was a bit too obvious for my taste. That was more lack of inspiration then a nod to the earlier movies.
Chris Pratt is mostly carrying the movie, along with Bryce Howard. I was not a big fan of the whol Eli Mills role/person/actor.
So... I'm around 26 minutes in and I already hate the stupidity.
First the positive:
Looks of the surroundings and nature in general are superb,
it seems more attention has gone to making some beautiful shots than actually having a proper story and dialogue.
Stupidity in the movie:
- 3 guys with guns, short distance, not one gets a hit of? I never fired a gun in my life, but I am quite confident to do better than these morons.
- car chase scene - wtfff what a bs.
- car chase scene - with a shotgun you shoot a car mirror straight off. for real? thats what you aim for? you even are aiming at all?
- car chase scene - one moment its clear, next moment it is snowing.
- wtf is up with the guy his teeth???
- fall through centimeters thick ice without any apparent reason.
- after going through the ice and fully under, no problem - getting back up and back to the hole and through it without much issue even with the thick winter clothes
- wolf attacks a human boy on his own? just like that? right.
- in general all dialogue is just....... really wtf.
... and this is only after just 26 minutes.
The first 30 minutes could be summarized in around 5 minutes max. Quite disappointing story all in all. I enjoyed the book quite a lot, but this movie is hardly worth the tag of "tom clancy". It doesnt reach the level of complexity anywhere, not even close or by a long shot.
Also not a fan of this woke black washing. John Kelly at least is played by someone with a strong appearance. Especially Greer is a weak character and the whole person does not make any sense either. Not as a black woman military commander in the place of an iconic role as Greer. Ok, at least they changed her name to Karen, but still..... nope. Plus illogical to sent such a high ranking person on a special forces mission to a country where they famously dislike colored people.
Overal this movie is a 6 out of 10 max. And that is being very kind.
Predictable and a bit too easy of making CIA the stupid bad guys (which of course is portrayed by a white guy).
The whole plane crash scene makes very little sense and... well.. too many things make little sense.
This movie just seems to lean heavily on being woke and just use the title of a tom clancy book to attract viewers.
EDIT: cancelled after 1 season (and rightfully so!) - open ended. Do not bother to watch this crap.
The Tula mom character is endlessly annoying. That person alone is reason enough to get this series cancelled.
For real though - what a dreadfully stupid story. Nothing unique or even remotely interesting.
Of course there is some strong suppressing organisation / government. There are rebels. Theres important people on both sides who have lots of history. Of course.
Main character with daddy issues - check.
Kids having been lied to all of their lives - check
Shifting loyalties all over the place, episode by episode - check
Unfulfilled promise by a smart but weak person who then of course builds up character to say no to addiction - check
White guy abusing power - check
Undervalued boy getting strong - check
Interracial relationship - check. Forbidden love - check.
Mommy issues - check. Kid rebelling against overly controlling mom - check. Mutual understanding reached and love conquers all - check.
Lesbian love - check.
Bad guy pirate turning good - check.
Did I mention shifting loyalties episode by episode? Check check double check.
Illogical personal motivations - check.
Not even sure how many other obvious b.s. I should even bother to list :)
