An okay movie but not a patch on the original. Connor's terrible character aside the thing I hated the most was the strange camera work during fights. Camera would be blurry and shaky during fights especially where connections happened and the body cam stuff didn't work, it was just off putting
I love Dune and have enjoyed all incarnations of this (including the PC game from 30 years ago) and while I enjoyed this I think maybe knowing the story back to back made it less enjoyable for me. Villeneuve's style of directing for me I don't think is quite my style in the pacing and shot style so it doesn't quite click.
Visually it's stunning, cast is great but it's not one I'd rush to watch again myself. 6/10
Lowered my rating as I was so bored on S2E1 I turned it off.
my biggest question is why Amber Midthunder is in this for like 2 minutes as a random sleep coach. Seems strange!
I usually love these types of movies but I just felt like this one was super slow. It took around an hour before any of the action got going and even after the montage he was still not very good mostly failing. Films like John Wick get going with great scenes within 1/2 hour but it was just so slow getting to the point. On the style, I get him being silent but having the whole film silent just made the slow pacing even worse. Kinda just felt like this film trickled along then ended which is a shame. Marks for effort but C for execution sadly.
First I've not played the games so this review is purely on the movie!
Throughout watching this I thought I was just watching a copy of Willy's Wonderland!! However the key difference is that while I enjoyed Josh in Future Man I don't find him very charismatic and in this movie he was always just low key miserable and seemed like he was barely interested to be there, maybe that's the character but I didn't find the performance great. Then when you put this against Willy's Wonderland with a VERY similar plot but has Nic Cage brutally fighting possessed animatronic robot creatures this just falls flat.
Elizabeth Lail was also equally quite flat and boring so combined these characters were just not fun for me. I had a lot more fun watching Matthew Lillard in the movie who gave a great performance but other than that no so much. I just found this slow and boring and while willy's wonderland isn't a masterpiece and Nic being a mute was strange it's better to me in pretty much every way. Strange movie!
Definitely one of the best Saw movies and a good return to form. It does take a while to get going and I did kinda feel like the ending was obvious and not as brutal as I'd hoped for Cecillia. I was quite please to see the end credits have a scene with Henry but again I wanted a bit more here rather than the teaser that showed nothing.
On the whole very good but I don't think it quite stuck the landing. Slow start, great middle and a bit of a nose dive ending
Started with some okayish action although using some blurry camera tricks to hide that is wasn't that well choreograped.
Then a slow middling journey of Denzel eating fish, drinking tea for 45 minutes then 1/2 of random gangster action.
I was never the biggest fan of these as they are you show and drawn out but at least they are over now
Wow, didn't know a lot going in but Jesus this was good. Horror survival alien crazy with some increasingly escalating weird shit. Excellent, gripping and crazy!!! :ok_hand::ok_hand:
I think most people have superhero fatigue at the moment however this movie did very well in certain areas. Unlike other recently DC and Marvel movies this movie has a lot of heart all down to the cooky combination of the Reyes family. It can be off the rail at times with some crazy action coming from this family. Xolo Mariduena has a lot of heart as he did in Karate Kid and it really shines through in a Spiderman/Peter Parker style way which does well to make you love the characters.
However while the actor and characters were interesting sadly the main plot and action was the same formulaic combination we've seen again and again. Dude gets powers, dude battles to master them, there's a love interest and dude battles a corporation with big CGI armour battles. It's very Iron Man and the same CGI over the top battles we've seen before....all very bland and generic.
I feel if this came out 10 years ago it would be a hit but sadly while the family/characters were engaging the plot left little to be invested in and had no twists or areas that stood out. The movie was enjoyable as a free streaming movie but there's little here to invest yourself in within this franchise, maybe with some non generic plot it would have been better but sadly that's not the case
Despite the synopsis of this movie sounding good sadly the first hour of this movie batman, superman and wonder woman are playing other characters in a number of scenarios with no real tie in to the justice league. It felt a very strange movie as you'll have no connection to the characters or know what's going on, however the last 30 is better and more classic.
Animation isn't that great, voice acting is good from Jensen but Stata felt like she was phoning it in.
Some enjoyment can be had with this if you stick through it but it's on the very low end of quality compared to the other movies
Being a massive fan of the animated flashpoint paradox movie which is one of the best DC animated movies I was hoping for something good. Unfortunately everything than made that movie so engaging was changed in favour of poor versions.
It wouldn't have been hard to make a good version but sadly not. Keaton as Batman was good but I wish we could have seen jeffrey dean morgan as the Thomas Wayne batman.
I wanted to give Ezra a chance even with controversies but like with Justice League he's just not a good flash. He's annoying and doesn't give you any likeability towards the character and having 2 of his flash characters is just bad and changing out reverse flash for bad flash is just uggghhhhh (plus the TV show already did bad Barry with Savitar)
What little we saw is Supergirl was okay but there really wasn't enough to go on. And having Zod back just seems pointless and strange especially without Superman.
And finally the CGI, was a cluster fuck. The time travel scenes looked like PS2 graphics and that weird baby scene at the start was just a complete mess of CGI and idiotic story.
All in all, a real big mess!!!
This was so so terrible I turned it off. No plot, crap acting and poorly filmed horror plus the masks looks absolutely idiotic. Crap!
Utterly boring. I disliked Aquaman but at least Mamoa has some charisma, this just had more bland underwater sequences with Namor being dull, boring and lifeless. And the rest of the movie was mostly people just talking and being miserable
I had no idea what this movie was about so assumed it would be something bland and drama based around eating.
BOY was I wrong.
This similar to a fine dining experience was well presented with a good build up and introduction to the characters and the location. However more like a succulent cheeseburger this had some real meat in it, each course was presented with shock and intrigue as the master plan was realised, as cheese topping the acting was outstanding with ralph fiennes giving one hell of an amazing turn as chef. But all the characters were great, and extra props to Hong Chau as his assistant, she was superb.
For dessert the ending wrapped everything up in a clever and satisfying way that was very smart and popped the cherry on top of the whole experience.
9/10 easily especially if you know nothing going in!!! Excellent!
I'm writing this with 1 episode left of season 1.
Pros
Cons
I doubt this will get a season 2 but it's been fun to enjoy season 1
I watched it due to the popular reviewed on here being positive. Jesus, what a waste of time from actors I like. The plot was just random and didn't really show anything on the characters at all. All of the place and the horror aspects weren't even scary. Literally just the first walking down the stairs that was remotely chilling at least for a bit before they killed off the best actor. And the police, why didn't you give your name and ask them to look you up, there would be records to show you're not a crack head lol dumb af
This movie goes back to basics and really recaptures the classic spirit of man (or woman in this case) vs Predator.
Amber does a great turn as Naru, a Comanche trying to show that she CAN hunt and ends up in a battle against the almighty predator. The evolution of the story is a well paced and the combat encounters are well planned and satisfying.
Aesthetically the predator is a more raw tribal type than we've seen before but is well put out.
There's a few CGI moments that could have done with a little longer is post but on the whole it's pretty good.
Fun, exciting and a classic Predator tale without all the fluff, much better than what we've seen in recent years.
Also the addition of a dog companion is fun :-) Although we are in a world where every movie likes to show strong women I think this movie framed it very well and the Comanche and time frame were a great choice.
8/10
Entertaining enough with the highlight being Ryan and Ana's interactions and the fight scenes. However too much crap CGI (plane scene was crap) and drone shots everywhere. Also does everyone need to blow themselves up? lol
But really the story is just the same story we've heard a million times, nothing at all innovative.
Also I know these are action hero types but 6 got stabbed a little too much for such an easy recovery. At least in John Wick it's more believable. Also Henwick's character seemed pretty underused and meh, but I guess more in the sequel
Action: 7/10
Acting: 6/10
Story: 4/10
CGI&Drones: 3/10
I see a lot of people bashing on season 3. Season 1,2 were more focused on the comedy as that's what Seth is more known for but be prepared that season 3 is a re-launch. Season 3 is designed to be a lot more serious in focus and a proper drama series, there are far less laughs but the emotional blows are deep and the topics it's dealing with are challenging.
It might not be the comedy gold it was but it's grown up it to a show that's as good if not better in many places as Star Trek
Season 2 was phenomenal, one of my favourite shows this year! Super, man!!
so shit, I fell asleep. It's poetic this movie has someone suffering from Alzheimer's, as it'll be forgotten within a day
Crazy weird movie, pacing a little slow at the start but when it gets going it gets going.
Odd is something I thought so many times during this moving, but loved it. Some LOL moments and I don't usually laugh out loud.
Worth a watch!!
I thought this movie was entertaining on the whole although a little drawn out but the scenes were good and it didn't lose me too much. I love Jake and thought he made this movie as he often does
However I thought the hero-ization of Will just because he's ex military and needs money because of his family was annoying. Especially the cop at the end, I mean he was only in the situation because the guy shot him plus cops have an oath to serve the law so he's breaking that by making false testimony. Stupid really, he was a bad guy as much as his brother
For those people coming to this movie expecting another MCU or Nolan action fest you'll be disappointed. This movie is supposed to be a dark, raw, gritty representation of Batman where he's new and inexperienced and still finding his way. The source material such as the Long Halloween was exactly like this (there was event a 2 part animated movie last year).
You have to approach this movie more as an art house movie with a dark cinematic tone that walks you through the story. I mean there were also a lot of great action scenes woven in such as the car chase, the end fights and such to make it fairly strong on the action but that's not what THIS representation is supposed to be.
If you're an American with in inability to be away from your phone for 5 minutes or you have the attention span of a Gnat this isn't for you. If you want a Batman experienced and confident, this isn't for you. If you want Nolan style large, bright visuals.....this isn't for you.
If you want something raw, dark and gritty with a focus more on Batman coming to terms with things and batman learning to be "The greatest detective" then you might enjoy it.
For a lot of people saturated in the MCU blanket who can't enjoy a more drawn out noir film then skip this movie.
As a metalhead I would have loved to enjoy this but as others have said very much feels like the standard sterotypical highschool douche to good guy movie but with metal as a way of reasoning it. Also it seemed in some areas like it was trying to say classic metal was good but newer metal like Slipknot was bad as they had none of it played and her reacting bad and I really hate that type of metal eliteism.
The good, there was some good ish music and joe manganiello is always a plus but with the forced romance, over egging on swearing and sterotypes it fell short for me.
Mostly fairly boring and predictable. I was hoping for much better :-(
Jesus Christ, this movie was trying to be meta but talk about how meta it is. Uggggh. Fucking terrible
So far I'm finding it fun and enjoyable! I wasn't a massive fan of The Suicide Squad but I'm enjoying this more
Good first season I think. I wasn't sure about the dual timeframe but I really like how it's playing out between both periods. Both sets of actors are very good, both the young and the older and some famous faces in there. Interested to see how the mystical / tribal elements play out next season. On the whole, keeps the attention and some interesting themes.
