We they spent so much time fitting in the diversity they forgot to include a person from Quebec.. but they made up for it with the location and host.
The host has the personality of a goldfish and never once strayed from her written lines, no interaction with the guests. She was obviously given 'designer' clothing to parade around in.. but the 'designers' made her look like a clown.
All of the guests were likable enough.
The winner was a worthy winner, but a couple of times I thought it was going to be lights out for them.
I've never watched Big Brother - the adverts for it turned me off with the people yelling and screaming at each other , with lots of tears and needless drama. Unfortunately, The Traitors Canada was like the BB commercials... for 45 minutes.. every episode!!! It was exactly what I would never watch, but I had to see the ending.
I've watched The Traitors Australia (2 seasons), USA and UK one season and the Canadian version is by far the worst one. I won't return for any more seasons. Now off to watch the New Zealand version.
Contestants- 9/10
Host - 1/10
Location - 5/10
Ending - 9.5/10
Overall - 5/10
MODERATION EDIT: Be respectful.
Watched 3 episodes and it just got dumber and dumber.
Not only that, but no one is actually paying attention to details in the filming of it. Here's a couple of examples..
1. She's at the pool with her daughter. she's wearing a grey/white T-shirt. She leaves and gets into her car. She arrives at the destination wearing a yellow top and yellow jeans - huh?
2. Twice she tracks somebody down using her mobile phone - it shows us her doing it. How does she track someone she doesn't know? does everyone in Barcelona have a chip embedded that anyone can use to keep track of them?
3. She goes to meet somebody but parks literally 2 miles away. She stuffs a gun in her waistband but we never see it until she needs it then it appears again
4. She plays a game of tennis - doesn't sweat at all. Walks away and her mobile phone just appears in her hand!!
5. Someone shoots out her rear window and she drives to her destination.. with the window in tact
6. She runs away from the bad guys who jump into their Range Rovers and pursue her only to appear from two different directions to block her!!!
I could go on, but you get the picture.
1/10
Season 1 - Not bad once you get past the first episode. 7/10
Season 2 - Sucked - just stupid. Complete disconnect of reality throughout the season - especially the bad guy that speaks Russian, Spanish, English and his time-travel exploits. One minute he's in Frankfurt blending in way to easily, then he's off to Mexico with no allowable time to get to the airport and actually fly there. The next minute he's in Texas. Meanwhile the FBI agent suddenly starts driving Mercedes-Benz cars and SUV's. 4/10
Season 3 - OMG the worst of it all. Where do the M-B cars come from? They drive to one location in a car and leave in an SUV! Who's dropping them off? They aren't taking any time to pick them up. And the time travel between Washington and Texas goes into overdrive for everyone in the show! Never mind them never stopping to eat, shower or sleep yet they look like they've stepped out of a magazine ad... and they somehow manage to change clothes 3 TIMES inside an hour while they are supposed to be researching someone - in an empty office! Totally predictable Hollywood ending that is telegraphed 3 episodes from the end. 1/10
I love the part in Hollywood movies/shows where 2 or 3 people are in a car following someone and they meet another person.
"OK, let's split up - you follow that guy and I'll follow this guy" and the person gets out the car and jumps into another car that has just appeared out of nowhere.. It happens numerous times in this show. Does nobody even pay attention to the script? The actors should realize this is happening.
This show is really bad - skip it and paint the livingroom!!!
If you enjoyed the TV show... DO NOT WATCH THIS.
It's crap.
There are shows and movies that you have to detach reality when watching them.. Spiderman, Batman etc. But you shouldn't have to detach reality for an entire 2-hour cop show set in London!!
There are so many bad scenes in this, there's no way a serious actor would have agreed to be in it unless it was solely for the $$$$$$$$$ offered if they had read the script prior to signing on.
I could list the bad stuff but it would take longer than watching the movie all over again. Here's one that won't ruin the plot....
Driving in the middle of nowhere - literally, there is nothing there. She folds the paper map and says "We're 3 miles out." They have to abandon the car minutes later (this scene is so impossibly stupid you have to see it to believe it). They get out and she says "We're 1 1/2 miles out." They walk for a bit, come over a crest and see their destination - about 2 miles away.
I won't even go into the absolute moronic things that happen from that point on.
Based on the final scene I think think this is going to turn into a James Bond type franchise going forward... and that's why this movie was made. I won't be watching it.
2/10
A reasonable time-waster of a show.
Still can't understand how Toni Collette keeps getting work - she's got a face for radio!
It's full of plot holes and typical Hollywood time-travel - do writers actually fly or drive anywhere? Do they even check with Google Maps and see how long it takes people to move around - assuming prefect travel arrangements? You know... like flight times etc.
Didn't hate it, but didn't love it. The story is intriguing and makes you want to know what happens as the history of Laura unravels.
Episode 1- Andy proves to be as useful as tits on a bull. This is an adult? This is a cop?
Episode 2 - Andy adds to the story by having the intelligence of a 6 year-old and makes choices accordingly.
Episode 3 - Andy finds a brain somewhere and actually start to act like a 30 year-old human - albeit still making bad choices. Although she still does what all women do and doesn't do what she's told!
Episode 4 - Andy time travels back to her home town.. and then is back on the road, all in the space of a couple of hours. But could "get back to her mum by midnight." How far did she get the second time?
Episode 5 - Andy got that 6 year-old brain back AND travels across the country! And does more things she's told not to do.
Episode 6 + 7 - Lots of blah blah blah but nothing else. Is it just me or are they just filling this series out?
Episode 8 - Finally some action, but you have to completely suspend all logic and don't ask things like how did he know they were going to be there a few times. The big finale was... crap, typical lack of imagination.
I was going to give it a 6.5/10 but after episode 8 as a whole this show is no better than a 4/10
A reasonable time-waster of a show.
Still can't understand how Toni Collette keeps getting work - she's got a face for radio!
It's full of plot holes and typical Hollywood time-travel - do writers actually fly or drive anywhere? Do they even check with Google Maps and see how long it takes people to move around - assuming prefect travel arrangements? You know... like flight times etc.
Didn't hate it, but didn't love it. The story is intriguing and makes you want to know what happens as the history of Laura unravels.
Episode 1- Andy proves to be as useful as tits on a bull. This is an adult? This is a cop?
Episode 2 - Andy adds to the story by having the intelligence of a 6 year-old and makes choices accordingly.
Episode 3 - Andy finds a brain somewhere and actually start to act like a 30 year-old human - albeit still making bad choices. Although she still does what all women do and doesn't do what she's told!
Episode 4 - Andy time travels back to her home town.. and then is back on the road, all in the space of a couple of hours. But could "get back to her mum by midnight." How far did she get the second time?
Episode 5 - Andy got that 6 year-old brain back AND travels across the country! And does more things she's told not to do.
Episode 6 + 7 - Lots of blah blah blah but nothing else. Is it just me or are they just filling this series out?
Episode 8 - Finally some action, but you have to completely suspend all logic and don't ask things like how did he know they were going to be there a few times. The big finale was... crap, typical lack of imagination.
I was going to give it a 6.5/10 but after episode 8 as a whole this show is no better than a 4/10
No cliché was left behind. Every single one of them was used in the making of this movie.
Here's how it works out:
There's a major crisis just waiting to happen.. we can see it coming.
Main star is a badass surrounded by men that haven't grown mentally past the age of 16
Main star and moron sidekicks do some kind of a cool job that probably doesn't exist in real life - and it's dangerous too!
Bad guys are trying to kill a good guy. We don't really know why, but its imperative he dies.
Good guy runs for his life, bad guys pursue through dodgy deduction and lucky guess
Bad guys get there first and kill numerous innocent people for no particular reason
Bad guys cause major destruction in the pursuit of good guy
blalh blag blah
People get injured and maimed but continue on their mission (good guys and bad guys -there's no pain in movies, no matter the extreme injury)
Said destruction arrives and ends just as quickly
All is well with the world
End credits
No real imagination - you've seen this movie numerous times before
Dialogue is dodgy, none-existent at times, so just toss in a bunch of F-bombs that'll get us over the hump
Get someone famous to give us credibility and maybe someone will actually pay to watch our crappy film
Taylor Sheridan is spreading himself too thin at the moment, he's going to kill his rising star if he keeps going at this pace.
4.5/10
Full disclosure - I don't just hate Christmas and everything about it - I DESPISE Christmas. I've been called a Grinch numerous times.
We watched this movie based on my wife's boss suggesting it and telling her to give it at least ten minutes before switching it off.
We/I gave it 10 minutes, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes and eventually it was finished.
Every minute that went by made the story and movie better and better. In the end we thoroughly enjoyed this movie and highly recommend it... make sure you watch till the very end.
The finale is great and the final song is very clever the way they stitched it together.
Ryan Reynolds and Will Farrell rarely make bad movies, so the logic would be that this should be a safe bet and it is. They are great in this.
Now... as much as I despise Christmas, nothing compares to my loathing of Christmas music - especially the crappy 'classics' that talented musicians find they have to copy for some unfathomable reason every year. That being said - there are no bad songs in this movie and in fact they are all very good!!
I'd normally give a Christmas-type movie a 1/10 at the very best. This one is a definite 8.5/10
Good Afternoon to you!
If the old guy could see he'd be a super human. But he can't, so he's a super super human that has no trouble wandering around in places he's never been before without bumping into stuff. He knows where stuff is (glue, knifes etc) and that people aren't looking at him while he sneaks up and kills them.
This is one of these movies that you wonder why they made it - other than the money, because they forgot a plot and logic, they just made it up as they went along.
The movie opens with someone (not clear who) obviously staggering out of a burning house and collapsing in the middle of the road. We assume it's the old guy, as we jump 8 years - but how in the hell does he get hold of an 8-10 year old girl? She's the pivot point of the whole movie, but we just have to accept he's been taking care of her all these years, since she's known no one but him her whole life. Hmmm. That sounds completely logical.
I'm not even going to get into the bad guys... that's whole scenario is just mind-numbingly stupid... as is the entire movie. Skip it, you'll thank me.
1/10
This has to go immediately into my all-time top 5 worst movies ever seen!!
Nothing in this movie is connected to anything else - it's like a bunch of mini-scenes cobbled together randomly. There is no logic or sense, no "humour" that you know they were trying to do and no connection with any of the characters.
Every person in this movie is there to fill out the diversity.. there's a black guy, check. An Asian brainy guy, check. Blonde hottie, check. a white guy, check. A Latino guy, check. An unknown racial background guy, check and an Asian chick that does Kung Foo, check. A ringleader older white guy, check.
They walk in and out of a jail at will. They wander through the desert on camels so they get there unnoticed - cars or planes would make them stand out in a big city. But they waltz into the prison with changed clothes, a couple of vans and a Ford Raptor -oh, and they somehow managed to plant a bomb in the desert.
Jamie Chung is in the move for one scene - she's strapped to a chair and breaks free to beat the guys up - that's the only reason she's in this movie...
This movie is a solid minus10/10
I really like the storyline with this show - it keeps you interested and you always want to know what's coming up, or where it's going to lead.
However... the acting is not the best. Eve Mauro who plays Rece is as bad an actress as you'll ever see outside of a porn movie. She's cringe-worthy. Her partner is excruciating to watch.
The boss is also really bad. He's supposed to be sad and mad at the same time, but just looks like he's constipated but wondering if it's going to be diarrhea if he farts.
Fortunately, the rest of the cast are a tiny and I mean a TINY bit better at over acting.
The dialogue is just passible. Production is pretty good.
They could easily have tightened up the editing and gotten this series in under 5 episodes, there's just too much stuff we don't need to care about or see played out. Episode 5 is a complete throwaway.
*Note: it says 8 episodes, but in fact there are only 7. I looked for ages for the mysterious 8th episode only to find the synopsis was what happened during episode 7.
Anyway... looks like they are going for a 2nd season. I WON"T be watching it. This was too painful to watch even during the plandemic with not much on. Think I'll be watching grass grow soon.
If you can suffer through the downside to this show, there's something to watch that's entertaining. If you've sat through Prison Break, 24, anything from CSI or The Blacklist, you can do it!! 4.5/10
I wasn't sure if this was going to be any good after all 1) it's about banking and 2) would it be an exercise in woe is me cause I'm black.
I was wrong on both counts - it was fantastic - very entertaining, great acting and Samuel L Jackson didn't say MF once!
What it shows is how badly the black people were (and are) treated by white people in America - it's criminal quite frankly. Why people would think someone can't be intelligent or useless because of their colour is mind-boggling to me. These guys legally fought the system despite their obstacles and should be praised for it. Their goal was to help fellow black/negro people to make a better life for themselves, so it begs the question: Why aren't "proud" black people like Oprah, Jay-Z and Beyonce etc. not helping out in a similar fashion? They are billionaires and I've never heard any of them helping others help themselves in a true sense. They made sure they contributed to the rioter bail fund, but what about all the black businesses, cars and homes that were destroyed? Time to look in the mirror.
Everyone should watch this movie.
It's one of the best I've seen in a long time. 10/10
This show is infuriating... it's a great story that keeps you engaged but it's full of really bad dialogue that was written by a 12 year-old. The bickering and fighting between the 'rich' kids and the 'poor' kids are tedious and childish. The story moves along at a good clip, but the Brits would probably have done it in 6 or 7 episodes instead of the 10 we get to watch.
A lot of it doesn't make sense such as the cops are on a manhunt, but they're driving at full speed in packs of three trucks with their lights and sirens on - why?? Or the cops are driving through a neighbourhood - also at full speed with lights ablaze and siren on full-blast. How will you ever find someone doing that?
If it didn't have so many stupid bits I'd give it an 8.5 out of 10, but overall it's maybe a 5/10.
As for the ending... just cause you get to the Bahamas - what makes them think they'll actually get the gold?!! And while you had the cops on the radio telling everyone the guy killed you dad - why didn't you mention that his son killed the cop.. you know, to clear yourself!!
This episode has to go down in history as the dumbest episode of any show in the last 50+ years. The plot is so full of holes you could fly a ship through it... Spoilers if you really think it'll ruin the experience....
1) They arrive at the space station ship Resolute and don't even notice there is no life in or around the ship.
2) They go inside and discover no one is there - nothing odd about that, why not split up and send the kids back to safety.
3) Dr. Smith starts a fire and all the doors close but they have no problem moving around the ship to get around the safety doors - we never re-visit the fire or even find out if it was put out.. and all the doors are open later too
4) They find out the ship was abandoned 7 months ago..
5) A horse appears for no apparent reason out of thin air (what did it eat for 7 months?) It then disappears into thin air once it isn't required for the scene
6) The robot is the reason everyone abandoned the ship, only it has no legs and one missing arm - the arm is on the Robinsons' ship (huh?). It travels at the speed of a snail, no one could outrun it apparently
7) Thousands of people on the ship couldn't capture it so they ran away, but mum and dad Robinson capture it in about 3 minutes
8) The police guys return to the ship and promptly put the robot into a steel cage - how? Did they throw some cheese into the cage and close it once it was inside? Why didn't they do that 7 months ago?
9) Dad Robinson goes down a well - apparently, they had to wait for him cause they didn't know how to bang on the pipes to see if it was blocked
10) The other robot is on the planet - how did it get there?
11) There's more, but you get the idea
Season one was really good - I gave it a 9/10.
Season two is one of the worst shows I've ever seen. BAD writing, acting and directing. Just bad! there isn't one person in the show that you'd actually like or even root for. Here are my biggest problems...
1) It's based in Mali and as you know Mali is in Africa. The president and army guys are all black, but the rebels are middle-eastern!! They are from Mali and want independence, but they aren't black - and we're not supposed to ignore this?!
2) They speek French..and Arabic at random, so they need an interpreter to speak to the English-speaking "good guys" that also speak French.. hmmm.
3) The bad guys merge at some point with the really bad guys. We can tell this because the bad guys have changed their headgear from browns, dark red etc to bright, gay colours like fuschia, seafoam green and bright blue, meanwhile the really bad bad guys all wear black headgear so we can tell the difference. It's all very helpful cause all those middle east guys look the same with the same scowl and bad teeth and guns.
4) It's 2019, so we have to have the obligatory gay couple and the persecution it would bring. Two bad.. no REALLY bad actresses in a story arc that has no bearing in the grand scheme of things..
5) I could go on but won't - just skip season two
Really good British drama theat keeps you interested right up to the last minutesof the last episode. I'd give in a 7/10, but if it wasn't for a very obvious character that served little purpose in the story other than to be the sinister bad guy I'd have given it a 10/10.
The charcter 'Bobby" was obviously written into the story to be the obligatory bad guy, but everything about him and his inclusion in the plot is full of holes so big you could drive a truck through. For example (spoiler alert)
1) What did the girl and boy hope to acheve by confronting him? there were other they could have confronted on theirown doorstep.
2) How did Bobby manage to drive onto the 'secure estate' with complete impunity and exit during a crisis and the cops don't even know a thing about it?
3) After parking his car and walking unseen to the house - where was all the fire-starter explosive devices? In his pockets?
4) Killing was obviously easy for him... why kidnap the girl and then only decide to kill her when the cop chick shows up? Why not kill her in the fire with the other woman?
5) How would he have cleaned up the girls brains after shooting her - in his apartment?
6) How the hell did he actually kidnap the girl? He'd have to drag her through the nosey neighbourhood to his car and then drive off the estate.
