Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
Loved the new opening.
Two things that didn’t make sense for me (except to develop the plot/tension):
* the scene where they go over a glass floor that’s supposed to hold so much more weight than that... then, why are they going with the heavier stuff first... then, why are they using ropes (a lot of them) but some people still need to put their life on the line by walking on the glass while it’s obviously cracking???
* after, they are on the road with the stuff they got almost killing themselves to get. Some walkers are coming. We have the 4 more badass walker killer of the show and they decide to leave everything there. One guy decide to go back to free the horse and is bitten and knocked out in the process. So everyone comes back and they finally decide to face the small number of walkers and it takes 5 seconds to bring them down. But hey, they couldn’t do it before, right?
Otherwise, pretty solid episode. Was a bit afraid of the previous season’s finale. Going for the internal Game of Thrones political struggle but in a more subtle way than it was suggested.
We’ll see how the next couple of episodes will unwrap. Hope they will keep the pace. Not ready to drop this show... like... ever!
Pilot was great. I was hooked and watched the first three episodes in a row. The pace of the action and storyline is really good. Slower than expected but not only action/explosion everywhere.
Loved the fact that Arabic people speak Arab (or French). French people speak French. They only speak English when it makes sense. The only problem is when an actor need to speak in a foreign language in a clumsy way. I can only tell when they speak French but the effort is really appreciated.
I’m always a bit sceptic when some scene are shot in an Arabic country and it feels like an old desert town. I assume some part of the county can still be like that but we never see a big Arabic country that looks like a western city. Also, I know some neighborhood in Paris have a big amount of Muslim people but it seemed a bit too much in some shots.
The second two episodes were also great. A lot happen in each episodes and you never get bored. The show covers a lot of themes like the struggle of the terrorist wife, we see how people commending drones can have a hard time doing it,...
I really like how Souleiman is not just bad from the beginning. Even if there are no justifications for what he does or plan to do, we also see his path and the way he ”becomes” who he is. I think it is a reality that some Muslim become more radicalized after a bad experience with law and a time in prison. If he found a job in France and didn’t face racism at all and didn’t get to prison the way he did, would he end up doing all of this? I know a lot of people won’t agree with that but I think we have to do better than be blind to those facts and keep looking terrorists as bad guys since birth.
Each episode have a lot of point of view. We see a lot of different characters and they get their development along the way. When you look at Souleiman’s son and wife story developing. Great writing!
Only story I find a bit clumsy is the love story between Jack Ryan and the doctor. Okay, it’s nice to add a little romance and everything but some things are just too cliché and predictable between them.
Last two episodes are not as high in intensity as the rest of the season in my opinion. The last one is especially a bit meh in terms of intensity. Even if still really good. Felt the end was a bit rushed, too easy (on both sides) and nothing unexpected or not already seen happens.
Looking forward for season 2. Hope they will keep the things I loved in the first part of the show: great casting (local people with the right accent but also great acting), perfect writing (in terms of balance between the action and the story development) and high visual effects/budget. Less love story, rush and 2 seconds mystery solving.
This one was pretty bad :pensive:
We're once again presented with a really skilled person dealing with alcoholism like it's the only weakness writers can come up with. Every movie about (ex- or about to be ex-) black-ops goes the same way. A trauma (usually family related) leading to alcoholism. Made me think about at least 5 other movies except this one really had nothing new to show shine.
There are also a lot of "how can a single person take that many hit without being completely broken at some point?” and “why are the 50 guys with automatic guns so bad at aiming while the 1 with the knife and the handgun kill them all?” moments :rolling_eyes:
And if that’s not enough, some characters are really acting stupid when they shouldn’t. I mean the whole, let’s send her in a trap, because she talked to the target, she won’t survive the heavy-military-guarded fortress she’s sent to. If that fails, let’s send just one trained-to-kill man after the trained-to-kill woman who just killed 50 trained-to-kill people. If that fails, let’s kill the man who trained the woman, send her a video to piss her off and go after her yourself. If that fails, the clearly bad-at-the-job daughter can follow the woman who killed everybody to make us think what?? I don’t know ¯\(ツ)/¯
A good cast but the rest falls short and it doesn’t make a good movie in the end.
The Black Manta side story was ridiculous. Over acted, over written, over the top. He looked like a Power Rangers bad guy. Wasn’t needed.
The love story building up like in a 90s movie. C’mon guys. Wasn’t needed.
We’ve had everything: colorful battles like a Thor Ragnarok but under the sea, spaceship battles like in the latest Star Wars, a reproduction of the end scene of The Fifth Element, a Lost (dinosaur) World, Power Rangers costumes, the mother’s alive and lives dressed like in How to Train Your Dragon 2, a really big inter-kingdom battle coming out of Lord of the Rings after the « the one true king » moment, a lot of King Arthur movies mashed up (just replace Excalibur with a trident),... we even had Avengers level jokes throughout the movie (not too much but still).
The soundtrack was sometimes good sometimes awful. Nothing to be remembered here.
The CGI was really good and the fight scenes and choreography were good. It was a superhero movie after all. They put the budget there (obviously).
Entertaining but nothing more.
Wanted to see more Dafoe on screen. Momoa is a badass Aquaman but sometimes Mera steels the show with better superpower.
I’m chocked that the after credit show Black Manta. I mean stop man. He’s a demi-god that you can’t hurt with the power of Thor’s trident hammer that can summon the biggest army of ocean creatures on earth. Stop your nonsense now unless you have Superman with you. This may be something I don’t like with the DC universe: heroes are too strong and/or villains too weak. They never seem to stand a chance.
This is the first realistic heist movie. Loved that it’s not only about the heist but also about the way it affects the four protagonists, their families and the victim. The Ocean’s Eleven reference was perfect. Also, nice Reservoir Dogs reference. Not my favorite Tarantino either. Nobody wants to be Mr. Pink. Ever.
It is not based on a true story, it is a true story. The use of the real people is so awesome and cleverly done. It reminds you about the reality of the facts every time. Sure there are some things that may have been romanticized/faked by Warren. But it’s a four men story. And we see it clearly during the movie when they meet with the guy in New York. Warren and Spencer are just describing two different meetings.
The acting is crazy good too. It’s just crazy. Nothing else to say. Standing ovation for the actors.
You can also find a lot of really poetic moments like when the car drives in front of the real Spencer before the heist and at the very end from both perspective or when Spencer crosses the way of the flamingo.
The movie is a bit slow at some points but it builds up to be a 10 for me. Highly recommended even if I understand it can be a love or hate kind of movie.
Enjoyed this movie a lot.
Reading the plot and seeing the movie arts, I feared to watch a rip-off of A Quiet Place. It wasn’t the case for me. Yes, it’s about a creature we don’t know much about that kill people. Okay, there‘s a boy and a girl. Yep, you can also check the pregnancy and delivery box. Oh and at the end, the disabled are the key because the creature can’t kill if you don’t have one of your 5 senses. But both movies are delivered differently. They touch the same subject in more or less the same way. But for me saying they are the same is like saying all Marvel and DC Comics movies are the same. It’s the result of an oversimplification of what those movies are.
If you look at it closely, this movie is not far from The Happening also. Again, not the same.
What I liked about this one is the acting and the unwrapping of the story. I loved John Malkovich in this one. A perfect asshole! All character are a bit a stereotype but it wasn’t too much a problem. They all deliver a more than good performance.
The budget and CGI, even if there’s not a lot of it, was pretty good.
I didn’t care to (not) see the creatures. It added to the mystery.
What I didn’t like was the too easy parts like the car scenes where they avoid everything just by using the proximity sensors and the gps, the running in the woods without hitting a tree really hard, the fall in the water then 5 mins later everybody is safe and sound,...
Also not a big fan of the end. They let them enter just by looking at their eyes. The last guy to enter the house and the last group they encounter hadn’t special eyes. It’s like they had the special eyes only when looking at the thing. Kind of foolish to let them in that easily.
Then, she finds the doctor. Really? Adding happiness on top of the happy ending.
The movie was a bit long but I was still entertained during the whole thing even with the similarities with the two mentioned movies that a love. Hence the good rating despite the small flaws.
