The problem with this film is that glamorizes Ulbricht's intentions. Better watch Deep Web (2015) instead.
Awful adaptation of a fairly decent novel. An atrocious change at the end make it unbearable.
I tried to be more than fair to this film, given its cast. It has Michael Barrett's excellent photography, the original premise is also quite interesting and there are bits here and there where the writer-director tried to flesh out some characters. In paper, it has an outstanding cast. I loved Brendan Fletcher's performance. Eliana Jones is amazing, stealing all her scenes. And that's about it. Nomis a.k.a. Night Hunter has some of the worst acting I've seen lately. Henry Cavill couldn't be more cliché and honestly he's seems like he's just going by the motions, not even trying to be more than your typical burnt out cop. Alexandra Daddario looks so out of place that I was surprised she wasn't edited out of the movie. Her performance couldn't be more flat, totally coming across as a nuisance in all her scenes. Stanley Tucci, Nathan Fillion and Ben Kingsley seemed only interested in cashing their checks, and that's utterly sad. Alex Lu's score is intrusive, and repetitive. Heck, it even sounds like stock fare from any given music library. It's a very disappointing film and pretty good example of a nice premise going the wrong way. This is David Raymond's first "real" film as a director with a "real" cast, and I don't know who was financing this bloody mess, but I hope they get at least a third of it. They made a good choice to make it VOD.
It's like a very bad Halo fan-fiction. The first 16 minutes had potential, but that was lost by the episode's end.
One of the most boring Godzilla movies I've ever seen (and I've seen all the Toho films). This one makes the most recent US version like Shakespeare. Nothing compares to the original Honda film.
What a mess of a film!. A total waste of budget with a paper thin plot full of holes. The worst Michael Bay movie, so far.
I was expecting more from this documentary. It fails to land its ideas, and it never compromises enough. It leans over Udacity, but it fails to mention why Daphne Koller ended her involvement with Coursera (she left recently) and fails to mention that she was the founder along with Andrew Ng, or that neither Udacity or Coursera courses have ANY academic credit value, even if you end up paying for the certificate (only 5 courses in over 200 in Coursera have any value). Also, that neither of them are fully accepted by potential employers as of educational value. I wasn't aware of the existence of Deep Springs College, and I was impressed by their theory of the labor pillar. Sadly, the documentary barely covered it. In the end, it's a feature long infomercial for their site.
They lost me at around half episode. Can't stand that crew, much less give a damn about them (except Niko and William, those characters are well written, and literaly hold the show together). After finishing the first episode, found out the series was cancelled already, no there's no point for me to watch any more.
Another DC dissapointment. The movie beings with all the promises and high stakes of a great film for the first half hour, and at first glance, Ayer places skillfully all his pieces on the board, and then, suddenly he loses all kind of sense of direction, despite spending some serious money on a really very cool visual design. This is a movie comprised of many brief moments of humor and running gags, not really scenes, it lacks an original story structure, as the whole "mission" is a mean by itself and there is not really an end game because the antagonist is very lame, with a generic CGI look. Those moments when the movie shines are great - don't get me wrong - but they don't contribute at all to enhance the overall plot development and some are just plain fan service, like the Batman cameo here and there to remind us that this an official DC movie. There are a lot of PG-13 jokes and innuendos (sadly, the best were in the trailers and many are out of place), and flashbacks... tons of flashbacks and dreamy sequences. Regarding the cast... imagine now that you have a basketball dream team... and they have someone who doesn't have a damn clue about the game as their Coach, and that Homer Simpson has written the playbook they are using, and you'll get an idea about how BAD this movie is, and no Director's Cut or Ultimate Edition can save it from the rubbish it is. It's ultimately such shame, because the acting is in my opinion so spot-on in most characters (specially Jared Leto's Joker in the very few minutes of screen time he has - yes, he is hardly at all in this film, so don't get your hopes high about his few lines of dialogue), but the charm or shock-value from those characters as themselves doesn't contribute to what it could have been a great film, as the whole conclusion isn't worth it (you'll get it by the third act). I would gladly watch a movie about The Joker and Harley Quinn's relationship... but this is, in the end, a lost opportunity. Oh... and the amazing vibe from the trailers?... you're gonna miss it because the music score is generic, bombastic and common-place (except for a few classic rock songs that the director tries to use to get his point across). It seems that Justice League will be the "good" DC movie after all (it better be, for Warner's sake). I'm not even keeping my hopes too high for next year's Wonder Woman after this mess, because trailers ARE deceiving. Suicide Squad is a movie that I won't buy on Blu-ray or catch again on Netflix. For those having high hopes for this film based on the material shown in the trailers: you will wish you could ask for a refund.
The visuals are alright, nothing to write home about. What is to be expected from any blockbuster nowadays. However, the plot feels like it was written in a napking using crayons. I'm not sure why they even bother to release this nostalgia-driven mess.
I gave up on this dumpster fire of a show after watching the 4th episode's promo. When your promo clearly shows all the plot and ending in 45 seconds, why waste 45 minutes?. Hope it gets cancelled by next year.
I couldn't believe it. To be honest, it feels like a pilot for an awful series. Star Wars truly ended in 1983.
It's very tiring to keep yourself for this whole documentary listening to people babbling about how wonderful the music experience in this concert is, and not having time to listen a single song without being interrupted by an interview (or a voice over).
I honestly tried to like this movie, mostly because of its great cast. But I couldn't stand their shallow motivations, egocentric attitude and silly, sentimental dialogue, that actually made me hate most of the characters (not to mention the cameos from known stars). What entirely lost me as a viewer and made me feel uncomfortable, was a rescue pilot that flees a disaster zone to fly to a far away location to rescue his daughter. I'm a medical professional and I have been a first responder in several critical situations, and I just can say that I truly hated The Rock's character so much after that stunt. After that, I couldn't enjoy the movie, despite the CGI, that I felt as outstanding. DON'T MAKE A FIRST RESPONDER THAT FAILS TO STICK TO ETHICS AND RULES YOUR MAIN CHARACTER. It's such an insult. If you disagree, I'll remind you whenever you need medical assistance and your paramedic, doctor or nurse has to leave the scene of your accident to check on her/his daughter.
Getting an invitation for a Marvel early screening was meant to be something great in the past. Sadly, I've just got it for this stinker of a movie, and lost two hours of my life. I'm a fan of Josh Trank's Chronicle, so I kept my hopes high, but not much so, as he's a competent filmmaker but more in tone with an indie vibe rather than a blockbuster, in my opinion. I'm so disappointed regarding this movie that I can resume the entire plot in the following few lines: a couple of kids (one a mild-mannered-mad-scientist-in-the-making and an honest-to-God-sports-jock) try for nearly a decade to create a functioning prototype of a phase-quantum-dimensional-shifting device (a teleportation machine, for the layman), getting the attention of a gifted scientist (who happens to have a politically correct bi-racial family) from a government-funded think-tank. Together, they spend HALF (yes, half) the movie trying to make the prototype of the device (now named "Quantum Gate") fully functional and open a portal to Planet Zero (a desolate generic CGI dimension that co-exist with ours), with the unwilling aid of Victor, a hacker-wiz kid who happens to be sadly in love with the only female character in the film, who in turn has a crush for Reed (as you might expect, Reed is utterly oblivious to her most of the film). The whole ordeal feels detached, procedural and boring, but has the very brief quality of portraying them as humans, with flaws. Anyway, as expected (because bad things do happen when you rush experiments), their visit to Planet Zero goes awry when Victor tries (as any scientist might) take a sample. The portal collapses, and Victor is left behind. I must dearly advise to you: it follows one of the most disturbing, un-glamours and painful transformation scenes I've ever seen in a Marvel movie. Their DNA is changed and they have odd molecular-phasing side-effects that can be characterised as "super powers". A great deal of the rest of the film is spent trying to - ironically - reverse the molecular-phasing disease, and we get to see a few neat scenes, while one of them is remorseful and contrite (hiding in South America) and the others begin to use their abilities to become military assets. This goes for a while until out of the blue, Victor (quite understandably bitter with them) decides to destroy our Earth using the Planet Zero portal. He's so good at it that he gets to almost destroy Earth without any complicated laboratory or technology. Then it comes the 10 minute studio-mandated battle where the characters become reluctant heroes (honestly, Reed a melee expert?) and obviously defeat Victor, who "disintegrates" (I don't believe that at all) while the portal finally collapses. After those 10 minutes of low quality CGI extravaganza, they get fully funded by the US Military, and decide to use their side-effects to protect humankind, while searching a cure for their disease (unlike the X-Men and most Marvel characters, the FF have always been in good terms with the US Government and NY authorities). In the end, I was baffled that there was not a single ounce of wonder or enjoyment from their part in their abilities, and that the characters feel underdeveloped, to the point of being hollow jokes compared to their comic book counterparts (especially the latest incarnation). With the exception of Michael B. Jordan and Red E. Cathey, the rest of the cast is AWFUL, their dialogues becoming wholly interchangeable. Really. Write down snippets from the dialogue, and any of the characters can deliver those lines. It's that bad. I'm sure I'll never watch this movie again, and I do hope the sequel never gets made. By the way: this movie isn't part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a good reason.
This ranks high in my "Worst Films I've Ever Seen" list. Sadly, it reflects the average quality of Netflix's comedy offerings. I wonder if its target audience find it amusing. About the only positive thing that I can say about it, is that it has a good cast, and many cameos.
It has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Despite a few good jokes-puns, breaking the fourth wall repeatedly and keeping the bromance alive, it lacks most of the fun the first movie had. Awful long, terribly long. You can cut out 45 to 50 minutes of the movie and you get the jokes, plot and action. Can't express how much I truly hate this movie.
