Started off as a half decent action movie till the truly horrible third act.
Why would the government not help kill them under the ice, they were quick enough to believe 'the future people'? Just so you can have your small group of outcasts save the world? Why go through more than half of the movie to help 'the future people' and then barely use what you fought for, the toxin? Terrible writing.
Simply unbearable. A bad combo of concepts from previous works of fiction. Decades into the future, fighting swats of primal creatures/aliens (go figure that contradiction), using foot soldiers and rudimentary weapons, really? "It's not a souvenir, it's a reminder" - who writes this bull?
Also, the part where Dan Forester meets the female colonel played by Yvonne, that was a cliché of epic proportions.
Main flaw though: too long for a mediocre film.
Oh look another show that has its natural flow interrupted by the same ol' industry standards plaguing everything else in the last few years. Hire hack writers who don't care about the source, hire every checkbox in the book, and then blame it on the fans for not liking it. Next.
I never thought they could make a 2 hour movie with Emma Stone in multiple sex scene's this bad, but they did.
The opening sequence with the call center is the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. The second dumbest thing I've seen in a long time was the beekeeper's detonation device rigged to explode by the next call while he was standing with the bomb. How did he survive this long with such stupid devices?
Edit: I spoke way too soon. It just keeps getting dumber every minute. It's one of those movies. I'll try to shut up and enjoy the ride.
Edit2: Now they're just killing innocent people, I guess the Beekeepers is a terrorist organization?
Gay film run the other direction
There are a lot of haters for this movie, mainly because of dissatisfaction with how the film ends...
And to be honest, the ending was a little open, but I don't think it mattered. You see, up until that point, I enjoyed the movie. The story didn't drag, and while it was never quite clear what 'the event' was or why it happened, I'm not sure that was essential to the film. It was more about the journey and the characters within, and their attempts to find clarity with chaos. Despite the occasional implausibility, the setup was more realistic than Hollywood's usual bombastic disaster flick, and that made for something quite refreshing. And as for the ending... well, I would have liked more, I would have liked more explanation, but its not a dealbreaker that it was, perhaps, a little underwhelming. As alluded, the journey is sometimes more important than the destination.
Typical alien invasion movie.. a tiny bit better than the norm. One thing no movie ever addresses is - how did the freaky aliens' manage to build that spacecraft? How could they dig the mine that brought up the ore to smelt and shape into metal and then assemble?
This film is full of holes and questions that I can't believe SOMONE somewhere didn't ask - Why? How? and That makes no sense whatsoever!!
5.5/10
Another Bond pastiche from Matthew Vaughn, and once again it’s worse than the last one. Here we have what is basically another Kingsman film, but this time it’s made for the wine moms who had found their new favorite film with The Lost City. The plot is quite bonkers, it's so dense and the amount of schlocky plot twists indicate that Vaughn’s at least somewhat aware of how tasteless it all is. Sometimes you can still find traces of the cleverness you’d expect from him, but generally it favours being loud and cringe. I understand that he’s targeting a different demographic here than with Kingsman, but the end result is so tame and commercial that it feels more like typical streaming filler (Red Notice, Ghosted). Some of the acting is atrocious. Obviously Rockwell puts in the best work, but it doesn’t make up for the stiff performances by Cavill, Howard and Lipa (though she gets a pass for being Dua Lipa). The directing is also noticeably a step down compared to Vaughn’s previous stuff. It doesn’t feel like he put much heart and soul in this, because besides some good stuntwork it looks like shit. There’s just so much plastic sheen (artificial bright lighting, tacky CGI, unnatural compositions and camera movement) that it becomes incredibly ugly to look at. You could pass that off as ‘well it’s meant to be cartoonish’, but I’m not going to make that leap when there’s this little artistry to it. Vaughn needs to stop making these, the whole thing feels predictable and played out.
2.5/10
This really is Quantum Leap in name only. I really wanted this to be good. For years, I said all reboots are unnecessary but QL actually made a kind of sense. You could cover a whole new era (and the time between the original series ending and now has certainly been... busy enough to fill a series). But this is just... not that. It's aggressively mediocre. They insist on splitting time between the leap and the project, where everyone is obsessed with a Big Conspiracy MacGuffin that really just eats up the run time. And because they keep shifting to that story, Ben's leaps are half-baked and rushed. Every emotional beat happens because "Well, we're almost at our quota of script pages, they should make up now." There's no emotional connection to anything Ben is doing in the past because the writers are more interested in filling in the blanks of the cliche conspiracy plot that has been done in every single scifi show of the past decade or so.
I appreciate that they got Susan Diol back for the second episode but at this point it just feels like they're hanging placards on things as a shortcut to making us care. They drop the name DR SAM BECKETT so they don't have to do any work to make you like drbensong. They think uttering the name CALAVICCI will connect you to janice.
It's generic as hell, the dialogue is bad, the characters are cardboard, and it's not going to last long enough to lodge in your memory even if it hasn't been swiss-cheesed.
I don't think I've ever seen people get up in the middle of a movie and walk out in disgust before
I went in with high hopes for this thinking it might be something like a bunch of oldies taking on demons in a bingo hall. No. It’s plot is so bad it barely makes sense. Someone will come out with some tosh that it is a reflection of the disintegration of established communities by hipster companies. Nope, it’s a really REALLY bad plot with terrible script, unfunny “jokes” and dull 2D characters. It so could so have been a fresh twist on a film like “From Dusk Till Dawn”. What a missed opportunity and what a waste of my time. Rating Boring as Hell.
He is the Beekeeper. That is an indisputable fact. Another typical action movie with Jason Statham in yet, yet also another good one.
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There is a plot hole that kinda makes me grit my teeth; the mother got scammed and she immediately just kills herself rather than consulting her FBI cyber security daughter... uh... like why wouldn't she do that first before just saying "meh, time to off myself"
I'm currently watching season 6 of the original Magnum PI and was surprised to see this pop up. I immediately thought about how they could fuck up the themesong that I spent many tries attempting to record completely on my cassette-recorder but upon viewing this I must say they didn't fuck it up.
The rest however...
The thing that made Magnum PI so great was the fact, despite being a marine, that he was real human being... this Magnum, from the get-go is an action hero jumping from space and blazing his way through the Jungle, driving backward and shooting others... Why is it so important that these remakes need to lose the human aspect that made us cling so much to these characters. The original Magnum wasn't less of a hero for being afraid to get shot or hesitating to jump from one building to the other... On the contrary.
Couldn't care less that this Higgens is a woman but... where's connection between these two characters. Higgens and Magnum were at odds at the beginning of the original series but these almost seem to be at each others' throat. And let's not start about destroying the iconic Ferrari not once but twice (I know, it's popular, the A-team movie did it too, apparently it's their way of saying "fuck your past").
I'm not the kinda person to say this shouldn't exist but I do wonder why it needs to be so different from the original (same with MacGyver) that it barely resembles the source material. Maybe I don't like sucky reboots and rather have mediocre sequels, maybe I don't like bulletproof hero's but people with heart... and this comes from a person who still adores the 80s
Full disclosure: I haven't watched the complete episode (edit: I have now) and I started skipping scenes to see if it would stay like this (and as far as I could tell it did). I have three more seasons of original Magnum to go. I'll be with the lads, Higgy baby! (though I guess new TC won't be saying this to new Higgens any time soon)
Didn't see the original, but this one is really bad. Watched 3 full episodes and managed a half of the fourth.. Enough
I mean this with the greatest of respect, but I feel like this is made for the generation of people currently on Twitter replying to all cinema posts with "sksksksk fr fr yasssssss we WILL be seated". It's an interesting twist on the high school, raunchy comedy with a gay twist, but nothing really comedically landed for me throughout the majority of this. I really did enjoy the soundtrack and aesthetic of the movie though, and the outtake sizzle reel at the end was great. Just alright, not to the heights that the internet would have you believe, but still decent enough.
So barring the ridiculous time travel plot holes and that for some reason no one thought of using explosive ammunition rounds/armor piercing round as a standard for the military when it’s obvious just how useless normal bullets are against these aliens. It was a fine sci-fi action movie. Enjoyable to watch the actual action parts, but right from the start it bugged me how illogical many parts of the movie are. Also that last part of the government not helping them was beyond dumb. In the end, just too many parts irk you along the way in such an obvious manner it’s not possible to fully enjoy the movie. Visually and acting wise it was well done however.
Truly retarded and anyone who liked it is too.
Seriously, that was mean, but COME ON.... this felt like trolling. Nothing at all made even a tad of sense. Zero logic. There are so many things just terribly wrong with this I can't even be bothered to list them.
The only part that was good was the black side kick saying shit 50x's in a row. That was comedy gold right there.
