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The start is a bit strange, instead of the crime you fall right into the intriges normally following after the crime. A bit like skip step on, don't pass start but run right into the thriller part and don't collect 200 dollar. But then it takes of with all the sterio types in place. The Spanish police is expected to be lazy, going for the easy solution, allmost corrupt. Headquarters send in a new consul who is offcourse on a secret mission concerning a few of the to the crime connected people and potential suspects. And the general believe English people goes only to spain to fool around and get wasted, the personal of the consulate and consul included. That part has a bad effect on the well constructed character of the female consul. Up to the part she decide to sleep with owner of the café where the victim worked and where an cruciaal eyewitness is missing, she supposed to be miss integrity herself, having a boyfriend also from the diplomatic core. Unlike her employees, who seem to be determent to have sex with every warmbledded person in Barcelona, she draws a fine line between the part of her private life. Her whole credibility goes to shambles with her promiscuous fling/affair. To early to tell which one, I'm at chapter four. But the suspense part clearly stays upheld regardless. The only thing I want them to clearavy who is the boss on the consulate. Clearly the mal Consul is trying to start running the show, but the female Consul overrules mire then once during managing meetings. And she openly offends against his terminology. To make a short story long: this is worth binching for.

Poor Fin attempt of standard scandinavian crime serie. Take a sexy female police inspector with wild long hair. Set her up with a bit peculiar male counterpart and feed them complex extreme crimes and there you go. Not in this case however. As simple as it looks, the backgrounds of the main characters should be somewhat believable and following basic police procedure is also advisable. In this case the duo split up in a chase for a possible killer despite the causion of the male detective. Ofcourse the woman get hit over the head with a heavy tool. Knocked her out only for a second instead caving her head in which is way more likely. And for the background, the female detective is a single mother with 2 childs, an eleven year old with nightmares and a 17 year old sister left in charge because mom has to respond right away to every call she gets, even if its in the middle if the night. The little kid has to wake up her mom to bring her to school because mommy is incapabele of setting a alarm clock. I don't think you can find a mom to do that in the first place, but if you do then there wouldn't be a police department allowing it. Mostly these sorry attempts are limited to one season but in this case they pull three seasons out of the hat. It should be forbidden. Still, managed to see the whole first season and I must admit now the characters are more out debt it's getting more interesting. The complexity of the crime is helping a lot. The job obsession is still incomprehencibal. Especially when welfare of the kids is at risk. And offcourse, the 14 year old daughter runs into every age related social difficulty there are. Even if the inspector is forced to take a leave of absence to digest the death of her husband and the new single mother household situation after they moved from Germany to Finland, she managed to illigally take al the workfiles home to continue working on her own, a routine she is being caussioned for. After that she is put in and of the case depending on what she comes up with in her investigation. Most shockingly is when she is drunk out of her mind during her solo operation and still carrying her side arm at home. But if you managed to get passed that, the story will carry the serie. A lot of plot twist, most of them unexpected, in a beautifull Finish environment and there is your succes.

SPOILERS. I tried to finish the first season after the first chapter but I failed miserably just like this serie. Normally it's a save bet, Danish series but this one is hopefully the exception. Trying to much getting on the success train of series like the bridge. Female police officer with issues a mile long gets the lead on the homicide devision. In her first case she has to shoot a suspect just before he manage to pull the trigger on her colleague. Showcase of justifiable shooting if there is ever one but no, she of the case and restricted to administrative duties. Ofcourse she starts her own investigation against standard police procedure ignoring her bosses direct orders. Ofcourse she choose a weird male character to help her. Due to complete incompetence of the rest of the department she manage to get a important breakthrough, or rather the weird male did. Hop, back on leading the case again. From that point on it's up and down in the faith of the boss in her abilities. Aside from that they ignore pretty much every basic police procedure in the rule book. The deepest point of disappointment is how the killer allmost manage to kill the only surviving victim whose in protective custody. Apparently the guarding police officers don't get briefed which personal are allowed contact, everyone with a pass and white coat is granted, which are hanging around in every corridor. No foto's or face to face identification admitted in the open hospital, not even when she catch the guy due to her spider sence. Instead she is, again, reprimanded that she pins the dude against the wall for not complying to her instructions. Not even then there checking if the man is who he claims to be. It gets on and on like this up till the end where she holds the killer at gunpoint after being tortured for several hours. She gave up her revenge intent after her weird co-worker refuse to leave the room but is forced to kill him after all after he manage to get the gun of the arresting officer. Up to the next chapter where her shooting of the suspect is hold against her from the start. It goes on the same way in this chapter which was enough for me. So my score is 4 more out of spite then anything else. Maybe if you don't care about police procedure you have fun with this. Then try for yourself, don't say I didn't warned you.

This serie had a certain stability in the characters which makes it stand out. Like C. S. I. Vegas but focussed on different professions. So the forensics are holding a bulk of knowledge as a demonstration of there intelect. There in every situation very calculated and together. In most series at some point that's all sacrified to unnecessary dramaties the story line. In my opinion it's lazy directing or at the least inconsistent. The rest contains SPOILERS, I repeat SPOILERS. In this chapter the crux of the story is to stay alive as long as possible in a box under ground. One of the pathologist that is. Of course she has the knowledge to calculate how much oxigen there is and how much time there consequently is left in the box. And everybody knowes you limit the amount of speaking, slow your breathing down and don't get excited. In a sort of Q&A they try to figure out where the box is buried, but every time they have a phone connection the one in the box keeps asking pointless counter questions why they wanna know that instead of just answer the dam questions. And every time the pathologist loses controle when they have contact. I mean, you can dramatise the story way better then this. Normally it's the end of the series when this slipping directing occurs but we al see there's a 21st season so why do they get excited. That's joking ofcourse, but these episodes seam to be for a different viewer. On the other hand, the mean topic of this chapter is refreshingly different which basically overshadows the previous argument. But see for yourself what is more important to you or at least make up your own mind.

Normally I'm a sucker for christmas movies so you really doing something bad if you managed to turn my back on a movie in the first 15 minutes. This year is no different then the last 2 years when I started to pick up on this special segment of movies. Up to 20 movies in different variaties so not bad at all. And then I ran into this one. On top it seems promising. Center of attention is a cupcake bakery, surprisingly the best in America, in transition to the next family generation by the early demise of the last remaining parent, the father. Ofcourse the siblings first has to get in line by overcoming there differences of which the job of one of them is the major. Her company apparently gave her the afternoon of for the funeral, which was allready a wake up call I missed. A couple of scenes later we see her on her job in conversation with her cocky boss about finishing up for the holidays. And out of the blue in the conversation the boss adds that this should be the last time she lets her personal live interfere with her work. After her surprice responce if she means the untimely death of here father the boss stone could answers yes, the company is her family so they can't be bothered by these personal issues. Completely unnecessary for the movie and therefor plain lazy from the director to creat a break in the working relationship. And that does it for me, I expect a minimum respect to do a half bad effort of making a believable sequence of events. Not here so I pass.

I've seen a lot of mob related movies and pretty much anyone based on reality is ok in my book. This one though, a agree with the review about Gotti doesn't shut up. Historical point of view interesting maybe but not that much. No hidden secrets, mysterious death or other skeleton in the closet. Even John's acting is mediocre at best. On top of it the story pace finishes it of.

They could have saved it with a better star quality cast, maybe shed more light on the whole dynamics of the 5 burroughs or between the family's. I think there is a better movie there somehow. And where was Christopher Walken??

Again a very decent crime on the beautiful island Iceland. To bad it didn't snow or stormed this time, I'm a sucker for series in harsh conditions. To get back at the serie, why this isn't produced under the trapped serie is beyond me. Definitely a consecutive season of that. All the previous characters are present and some new ones. Its 5 year after the first season when Andri's, the main character, former father in-law is released from prison after his conviction in the end of season one. Again, the case is a twisted combination of international crime and local drama with a red line of narrowminded of politics of the brass of the police corps. Sometimes skin crawling annoying, but mostly very entertaining and wel produced crime story. It's still strange to see coppers without a sidearm as standard issue after al those American series. With the British it seems less disturbing. Well, good enough to finish it off in one sitting.

Don't expect anything and then it's ok. Nicolas Cage is Nicolas Cage like always, apart from the hand to hand combat in a smal boat. The Jungle scènes are more then ok. Famkes performance is very disappointed. What happened to her? Lookes are still ok. Maybe it's her rile because that's never clear during the movie. Storyline is plain and simple, to many people and a serious cat in the wrong place, combined with the standard political incorrect government officials. That's about it. A sorry totally out of place excuse for a romantic twist at the end should not cloud your judgement. That must be an editing problem. Switch of the brain and let it come to you, it won't hurt!

Normally I'm in for a devil's driven crime story in the Bible Belt and bones in the leading role promised a lot but this is not one of those kept promises. First of all, this director seems to think that waiting for the active storyline in itself enhances the suspense. So he dragged out the storyline so extreme there only 2 dynamic scene per chapter. The rest is filled with stupid illogical behaviour of the main characters, which is a family where mom is a psychiatrist in the local hospital and the father is a newly started independent contracter in financial need. Annoyingly mom analysis the hell out of her family instead of realy be a parent and dad is the posterboy for parenting but clothes his eyes when it comes to effects of mom's actions on the children and the household. And offcourse the children rule basically every interaction with the patents 'because we have to respect there boundaries'. Come on men. Psychiatry 1.1: don't analyse your own family and don't get emotionally to attached to your patients. So when she start taking a jane doe out of the hospital temporarily into her own family, shifting aside the whole position of her most vulnerable child, they lost me. First of all, by regulation and law is never allowed, especially not just on her account since she doesn't represent a gouvernement regulation position. There's at least a team involved. But then the total disregard for the needs of her own children in the proces by putting Jane Doe need above it is ground for a immediate intervention to start with. On top of it all the real family issues are painfully silenced which is just annoying and to hard to believe so it's forced to support the weak storyline. All and all I made it halfway thru the second chapter before I gave up. Maybe you have more patience or a total different idea of life. If so enjoy this series.

I allmost stopt after the rediculous car chase between the normal car and the rig. After the truck got trapped between the trees, stil it managed to back out of the woods, regain its speed and even more to overtake the car al within minutes. Wat a crap. But if you can get by that, a descend story developed with lots of suspense and turns between bad and good, which keeps you going to the end. Although they do there best to creat a memento like atmosphere which getting a bit over the top at the end, it stil stays comprehensible. I allways find that a bit cheap, but the Australian outback makes more then enough up for it. It wasn't my choise of an ending but sure it was a plausible one. Due to the entertainment value doable.

The case at hand is well thought through and therefor interesting as hell. Several of the investigative officers are affected by the case, in a good way or disastrous bad way. And as it supposed to be the strength of serie, they cock it up by cutting corners in police guidelines and plain judicial legislation. So far it's still annoying that Frederica is constantly blowing in her spare time, which is pretty hard to conceal from your college's but also hard to believe. Alex get's romantically involved with the mother of the victim at a crusial time in the investigation, where he totally out of character leaves his phone out of reach. I think there ethical issues since the investigation is still ongoing. Fredrica's boyfriend is implicated in the past of the victim by filming a snuff-movie comparing the same storyline as the real killing. At that point she starts erratically running around in her own without letting herself of the case according to standard procedure. And there's a reason for that, because everything discovered by her from that point on has no legal value in a court of law, should it came that far. It goes even that far that she disobey a direct order to stop her investigation and report to HQ. In her further investigation she declares herself as the head of investigation to other departments to get them involved in a surge if a boat. And if that's not enough to leave the department belly up, the other male investigators brother got caught by the killer, watching him killing a loose end. And yes, he turns out to be the only investigator on the trail of the killer and at the moment he has the killer at gunpoint he receives the message his brother got killed by the guy. Totally understandable he empty his gun in the killer, no argue there, but in the end they predict he will be exonerated by internal affairs. Not even if hells frosen over. So now this serie is back at it's starting chapter, a total waste of time.

Although the storyline is improving drastically and the stupid intolerable behavior of some of the main characters are handled appropriately since chapter one, there still some inconsistencies in the day to day operations of the department. Specially how a pregnant college is still allowed in confronting situations. Of all people she is sent to Belgium for inquiring some relatives to the victims/person's of interest. And if that ain't enough, she is dragged towards the end location where the armed perpetrator is set to kill a family. And the only instruction she gets is "You, stay in the car", and then everybody else is running to the house in question leaving her by herself in the car. How about not endangering a pregnant officers by leaving her at the station where she is actually save!?! Annoying to say the least. But overall the serie is getting every case they work on.

Normally Scandinavian crime series are of high standard but lately I have some difficulties with them. This serie falls in that categorie. Although the effort is ok, it's meanly about an female police investigator joining a special division in Stockholm. Apparently she is not welcome for a non disclosed reason. So far she has no special skills beside her being a classical musician once being a member of the London philharmonic orchestra. So she's strangely introduced as higher educated then al of them which should explain the adversity. Strangely because normally a special branch is know for higher educations.

From that point on, they run into the first case of a kidnapped kid at Stockholm Central Train station. At that point the whole unit doesn't seems to function at al as a police unit. Every scene at the HQ is dripping of amateurism, no apparent leadership in the investigation, deliberate ignoring lines of inquiries, openly showing signs of tunnelvision. In effect causing more victims then necessary, which don't forces higher leadership to intervene. And that's beside all the personal issues. One officer has a wife suffering from post natal stress syndrome, while he is having an affair witha college at work. Which causing him so much sleep that he falls asleep on the workfloor. Another officers seems to have coronary symptoms which he tries to avoid having checked. She, herself seems to be reluctant in adopting a kid of her own, without consulting her relation at that point. Beside that she is using pot for whatever reason. All and all it's to much personal sjite and to little professional police bearing. Makes you question if they had intent to make a proper police series. It's not even an A for effort.

All those reactions of those white sportcommentators and networks. ESPN should be ashamed by there open bias supposition. And in 2004 hearing commentators using arguments like "and those tatoo's and rap music". I was waiting for a refferent jumping out and blaming Rock and Roll for all that mischief. And the security cluster f&@k up. 3 whole police officers on the court, and one of them didn't even know who Reggie Miller was!?! And trying to mase Attest and declaring he wasn't because Attest was on the ground and not a threat. While the footage showing him standing in front of Attest clearly standing upright. A travesty of law enforcement. And I didn't even mentioned the fans yet. And the comment that the security planned to invoke season tickets from several of the suspects and perpetrators, how long did they need?? A disgrace of the Detroit organization and NBA as basketbal representatives. Maybe this is the reason why in Europe the fans are separate from the pitch in soccer. However, since I'm a hockey fan, it had some entertainment value. So maybe I'm just as guilty by enjoying this and therefor supporting a platform for this kind of behaviour.

A impressive performance by Benedict Cumberland and Keira Knightley. And the MI6 guy as wel as several other characters. And the storyline is overwhelming due to the historical significance against the narrow minded pretentious social standards on homosexuality. With such a lack of acceptance towards the diversity of life you start wondering what good it did to win the war. And then we're not yet talking about the gross neglect of gratitude towards these extraordinary people. I feel ashamed to be part of this so called free world. Actually, it shouldn't be a surprice since Winston Chirchil was also the architect of the concentration camps. But, nevertheless, that's why the movie is of this caliber.

End scene completely ridiculous. The way she unarmed the killer at the end. So right this is the last episode. Especially because she allready killed before for no particular reason other then here fictive imagination. Oh, I think you having an affair with my husband. No I'm not! Yes you are, here I strangle you with enormous strength, which I don't have. Come on, men. Have some respect to the viewer.

This contains some SPOILERS. This serie is probably shoot in favour of the couple who play the main characters. Just one in a row of many of this kind of crime solving duo's. To bad they had to go imaginary to get the plot strait. First of all, the girl normally investigates with somebody else, but on the most importent action, right after the detective warns her of the dangerous implications of the case due to people get killed and all, she decides to investigate all alone at night at the secluded harbor. And she places her phone without any reason on a ridge at her stakeout location, while she was wearing him in her pants pocket the whole episode. And why???? Because they need a reason for her to return to her location to blow her cover without the nosy reporter around. How farfetched can you get. It looks like science fiction, so unbelievable. Now I understand why the serie stopped after 3 episodes.

Only if you have absolutely nothing else to do and somebody is allready saving the environment, your excused to see this. Or if you got the hots for one of the main characters. Well, I've warned you.

I'm following this series for quit a while now and it gets out of hand more and more. This is based on most of season 1, complete season 3 and most of 4. The charm for me was they manage to put a complete case into 50 minute episode in a way it seems like it's all solved in a matter of days. And all in an life threatening pace. Therefore they gave to sacrifice a lot of the due diligence police work which normally goes hand in hand with the action of the hands on police work. But that is all good as far as I'm concerned. However, when officers starting do disobey direct orders to stay out of the investigation due to personal involvement or when agents grab innocent relatives of criminals of the street to use as leverage for disarming boms, virtually killing them if the culprit doesn't butch (if that's the correct phrase) because they can't come into safety in time, everything went to far. And for this episode it's annoying to see the female agent for no reason decide to withhold information about the impact on her husband's death a year ago. And then flip from it's a coincidence to the husband as a victim of the killer they're chasing. And on top of it all, when they have the killer arrested and just out of surgery from the near fatal shootout, she rush into his room ordering all the medical personnel to leave allthough he is in critical status. Attacking him with a third degree and grabbing him by his head shaking him around until he flatlined. Later to discover he dies during following surgery. And in non of the three cases I mentioned, there disciplinary sanctioned or get fired. That's just plain stupid. No wonder the American people gave no respect for law enforcement since this is mistakenly there conception of real life. So for the first time I decide to quit following a serie in my life. And I have seen a tremendous amount of series in my time. To bad, specially for a director of Dick Wolf. So a measly 2 for effort.

Apparently this series seems the constant factor in my binchwatching life. It started with CSI and House, and for the English series a Touch of Frost. Ofcourse I finished House and Frost but from the still ongoing series, I'm still following NCIS including New Orleans and recently Hawaii. LA is more the CSI Miami variant of NCIS and equally annoying. NCIS succeed in keeping the cast interesting which keep it fall to boring. NCIS as well as CSI, the originals, seem to stick more to proper police procedure then the other variant's allthough the participation of the agent's in the securing buildings for arresting purposes or other investigations stil seems pretty stupid concerning the risk. Like you have a highly trained SWAT team who accept unknown and untrained agent's in there unit during a raid. That's ofcourse for cinematic reasons but it's another thing when one of the NCIS main characters decide to enter a home of an armed presumed killer on her own, not waiting at least for back up. And in this case they rang the door more then a day ago and nothing seems to be changed according to the officers guarding the house since. That's a bit to much, so I think they running out budget or something if they cutting corner of this believable procedure. And the blind fate put in a podcast about the case by this seasoned 'special' agents is also really disturbing. And then proclaiming they believe in the evidence and still say wholeheartedly he's guilty based on the podcast. And from that point the focus of the investigation seems to be proving he is guilty instead collecting evidence in and let the evidence guide the investigation. Funny that one of the officers who was certain of his guilt, completely turned around in believing he is innocent al based on her conversation with him. Like he was going to say, I'm guilty so arrest me. And with this obvious oversights and twisted perception of due process the public is fed in the general distrust of the law enforcement or think this is the way you can premature ruïne somebody's live by publicly convict innocent suspects. Real responsabel approach from the writer's I want to conclude. For entertainment value still a six but hopefully an exception off the writer's.

Maybe I allready posted this reaction in a different chapter but now it's less an anomaly. It seems like the whole credibility of this series is sacrificed for the annoying way the main character is put down. Some how she has to be a fashion freakshow all throughout the story that it leads a live of it's own. It's allready hard to maintain plausibility without this misplaced behavior. The whole series involves about the amateuristic behavior of the so called PI squad which make them stumbling upon the truth by accident al the steps of the way which is as big as a surprise to them as to us. That was more then enough for the first couple of season's. A small thing in the series was that they at least get suitable clothing if they decided to break in or get in some kind of secretive operation were fleeing is bound to happen. Now she wears 5 inch heals all the time. And still manage to keep up with characters on sneakers and athletic shoes. And you can name a dozen if these small things which combined kills the story. So it's hard to give credits for the story anymore. I keep following the series nonetheless only because the chemistry between the character and the content of the case at hand. Beside, there only an couple of episodes a season. Skip this if you have a better use of your time or should it be only a different use of time.

So far I enjoyed this serie immensely due to the variety of cases and the hands on approach in solving the crimes. The office politics is minor but a bit to thick when it's around. But that's part of the charm. The only thing I allways regret is when the writers allow characters to stay on the investigation team after they are personally connected to the case, in any way. I'm a sun of a cop, a chief inspector of the major crimes departement and no way, I mean, NOT IN ANY WAY, are cops maintained in the investigation if they are implicated by or connected to the case. Especially not on their own accoord. That is just standard police procedure which serves a purpose. The investigation should be clear of potential bias to hold up in court. Ofcourse, it's more interesting to give them some lenience because it makes the officer more human. But in this case a federal officer picks up the innocent brother of a bom making terrorist and brings him in serious harms way when he brings him to the fresh bomb site just to convince the maker to give up the cancel code to stop the explosion. I know you have the patriot act but is flagrant violation of citizens safety which is even punishable by law. And after this insubordination apparently its allowed for his superior to say they instructed him to do so. This is stretching to much for my taste. Ofcourse he should have lost his job if only to maintain public credibility as law enforcement. Bad use of creative freedom as a writer.

I hoped the level would pick-up after the previous episode hoping that was as bad due to the personal aspect of the story. But no, the writers are to blame. Now there at a different scene in the big city of Seattle, home of the Kraken. And there business is literary based, not some kind of crime oriented congress. So Travor is in this chapter also out if his jurisdiction, not just the broad. So now you aspect her flagrant disregard for police procedure to be punished by law as obstructing of justice and interfering in police business. Punishable by law up to 6 month. But no, the inspector in charge is a college of Travor dating back to the academy time where she beated him to the detective rank. Allthough she talks the talk of protecting the course of investigation, she also never walk the walk. And then the supporting role in this case, or second mean character is a application programmer who wrote an app which totally obsoleted the human factor in crime solving processing. Yeah, write! So I start the app and apparently all crime data is uploaded according to application syntax, and then the computer solves it, with all the crime indigenous decisions ready to be applied in steps off we go left or we go right, the way computers apply logic. And this app, which is basically very limited by nature will bring him millions and millions. And completely replace human contribution in this. The only normal thing is that all the personal issues between the mean characters of the story is quite normal. The wife of the developer is a high executive in the company and his best friend is COO for the company, and surprisingly they have an affair which cost her the marriage and legal heritage to the company and products. And offcourse there is a dirty cop somewhere who helps a maffia lawyer with secret information to win cases. So that part is still entertaining as it is aspected. Al in al less annoying to watch then the previous chapter. So a 4 instead of a 3.

I'm following this series because I'm a huge fan of crime series where more common and regular professions are combined with the down to earth professional approach of law enforcement. And I especially appreciate the English series as such. But every now and then, an American attempt seems to hit the right spot as well. A good example is Castle where a succesfull mystery novelist combined with the homecide police department in a consultancy capacity. Now this series seems to be a half baken attempt to sail on that succes. True, al the story ingredients are in place, good looking detective and fictional mystery associate/consultant. Plenty of crimes to be solved, containing a more complex origin. Beautiful weather. Etc, etc, etc. What's setting me off in this case is also what's tipping the scale in comparison with Castle. The constant switch between the approach towards there endeavors from the main characters. The detective seems to be switching between working by the book and let her take the lead in the whole investigation. This includes her involvement in suspect interrogation, alowing her to trespass on crime scenes whenever she feels like it, doing inquiries on behalf of the police by her self which is rediculous and unnecessary by the way.

And she supposed to bring in a more open mind and urge to find a deeper explanation instead of dangerous shortsided and pressed for time approach. Al based, offcourse, on the evidence. And then she goes persuing suspects on her high heels with no jurisdiction what so ever. Thinking everybody has to answer to you as they supposed to towards the detective. And in this episode I had to react because her father is implicated as a suspect in the murder of his publicist. Now she expects the detective to ignore his job and starting to investigate solely based on her believe her father didn't do it. Al the following awkward moments became to much, due to the flagrant disregard of legal procedures. The other episodes didn't seem to have that, probably because her distance with the perpetrators and victims. Or there better setup. I don't know, but this one has no believability left. Stil gonna see the remaining season, hoping there catching up to the level of the first episode.

SPOILERS. I'm always on the lookout for Hilary Swank flick I missed. So I was pleased to run into this one. I didn't expect it to hit me this hard. Both my parents suffer from a form of dementia, however in different stages. My father passed away a year ago before he got into the final stages of this horrible decease. Somehow I'm glad it didn't get that far, for my mothers sake but also for me and my brother. I saw it happen with my father's mother where she didn't even recognize my father anymore. At the time we all laughed about it but now I understand how hard it has to hurt him seeing my mothers reaction on the first time he didn't recognize here. Thank god it was only once but it sort of a wake-up call for us. So if you experienced anything close to that then I imagine this possibly hits you as hard as it did me. Of course the cast is superb end the whole atmosphere is brilliant. I'm really surprised it got a 6,7. For people without this preset emotions it's probably a pretty good family drama.

See for yourself.

Familiar story line but sad choise for important pivotal moments. The mother is a sorry excuse for a parent, the totally unbelievable singing block of the girl, who supposed to be a R&B singer with an extensive career, is disturbingly annoying. First she fighting not to perform anymore, then in a split second she's al for a come back but as a couple, as long as she don't have to sing on stage at her own place. And then, after she hears people talk about there performance of the one song she apparently stil can not sing, she runs away again all with excuses that she won't ruïne his career and "trust me it's better this way" kind of chit. And not one of them grabs her by the ear and delivers her the proverbial kick in the but not to behave like a 2 year old.

Due to this forced storyline the music is set to the background to often to save the movie. And although nothing indicates her R&B ability, her voice and his are more then acceptable. To bad his repertoire is limited to one song because that would have spice up the movie intensely. And of course in the end it al works out, no more bad guys or corporate sleesbags, everyone is good. And happy, and in love, and having a promising career.