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So, I'm giving this a six. It's not the worst game ever and it does a lot right, but, and this is what really brings it down for me, it does a lot wrong it did right in the first one. The first thing that stood out to me, was how hard it is to see stuff. Where goes the path? Can I walk here? I just killed a guy, where is his stuff? The map is the worst, it doesn't give any information, even the lines sometimes don't seem te add up with the surroundings. Names of buildings have dissapeared. so you can only know what they are by entering, because most of them really look like eachother. The default settings for the mouse are hellish, so I had to turn the sentivity all the way down. But still sometimes it's easy to get turned around. After playing for a few hours, my eyes were hurting. The first game did this so much better.

Controls - in the first game at least you could choose how you wanted to play. Witcher 2 doesn't seem te have this option - even though it's in the options menu. Learning the controls was the most annoying thing ever. You get thrown into an arena, where they tell you all you different moves. You want to practice a move? You can't. Because now it's time for the next move. In this way they expect you to learn 9 different moves, by doing them al once. And when the game starts it's the same. I got one coin, some guy wanted to armwrestle and he defeated me easily cause I didn't understand the instructions - the armwresteling by the way plays like playing a game that keeps lagging. Not a fun minigame, and I will probably skip that quest. - anyway, guy took my coin, and I couldn't try again. Later the king wants me to help him aim the balista, I use the crosshair, too high, again? Nope, you missed, now we'll just go to the next thing. The first game did this so much better by introducing moves and giving you a lot of time to get used to everything. Sometimes Geralt puts away his sword automatically, but sometime he doesn't which is fun because now, after fighting a bunch of monsters, you have to restart because the whole village now wants to kill you because you just wanted to talk with someone and Geralt didn't put his weapon away. Fun! The first game did this too. But it didn't hurt my eyes so much that I didn't see I was still hold my sword. Sound is super loud and the game somehow didn't allow me to use the volume control on my keyboard. Also, if you're on steam and you want the game to pick up from how you ended the first game, go find out how to do this first. I was dumb enough to think the games would do this automatically, but when I found out the continuation mistakes I was too far in. Really dissapointing. And then there are some crashes, sound crashed and first I thought it was my own installation quitting, after 10 very scared en frustrated minutes I found out it was the game. Also some hard crashes. The first game had these too though.

So what is better from the first game? Well it's more detailled. The lipsyncing is better. Better voice acting. Really vivid surroundings. Things you should expect from a game after a few years. But that's about it.

Not just the cliché after cliché in this pilot but the extremely high ratings as well.

There was literally nothing interesting happening in this episode. It starts with a decent adaption of the Phantom of the Opera song, introducing us to all the main characters, well... introducing.. more summarizing their main characteristic. One is the righteous smart one, the other one still a masked hero, there is a model, and an addict who is supposed to be the comic relief, oh yeah and the sensitive one, she plays the violin, Big surprise. Then they meet up because dad is dead and they don't really like each other. And the butler is a monkey. And then there is a dancing montage. And then Number Five returns because he is a time traveler and maybe dad was murdered. Nobody says anything of substance, it's all emotional blabbering and childish fighting. There are some fight scenes with real bad guys, but they are just so lame, think Nostalgia Critics description of the Inspector Gadget movie. Bad guy points gun. Kid with superpowers does something. Bad guy: 'Huh?' and dies. This is repeated many times, shot in dim light, with music that's just there to be funny. HAHAHA THIS MUSIC DOES NOT FIT! HA! "Is that blood?" "It's nothing" Great writing. Number Five from the future says there is no future and Ellen Paige offers him coffee, end of episode.

This show really has its ups and downs, in the story as well as in the writing. There are moments that I was cheering for the writing and that's something that has not happened before as far as I can remember. But there are also some cliché moments and dumb decisions in there. Stuff one would expect from average uninteresting shows and because this is not average at all, this sometimes causes some deep holes. But to be fair, also these dumb decisions do not stay without consequences, which elevates the show immensely.

Season one? I loved it. The mix of unlikable but somehow recognizable characters gathered together in a mystery thriller, meanwhile having fun with their quirks and quarrels was very fun to watch.

Season two? I don't know. The mystery is gone, and is replaced with just the drama of them dealing with what they did. It's like the show doesn't really understand that Dory is the villain. Instead we see her struggling and trying to get over it. But we don't care about her trauma, we don't feel sorry for her. She lied and hid the truth from people over and over again, and now someone is dead, we want to see her punished, and she not getting punished is pretty unbearable at times. Anyway I haven't seen the finale yet, so maybe she gets what she deserves. It just took a bit too long to be really interesting. The same goes for the other characters, their flaws made them interesting when they were solving a case, but for just dramatic purpose, they are just to unlikable.

Despite this, the show still has smart moments and interesting characters and story lines. At the start it was far above average, in season 2 it kinda fell flat. Still I will give this show a 8/10

So season 1 started out pretty interestingly. A mystery, some gory murders, good effects, nice characters, very cool music. I should have seen it coming...

Those last episodes were ****ing pieces of ****. As is revealed that the white haired girl is the other wolf, the pregnant girl is struggling and screaming as an idiot. Not listening to a word that is said. As Peter goes into battle she is screaming like an idiot. Peter instead of really doing anything is just waiting for the white hair girl to become the white wolf and only then thinks about fighting her. Peter is suppose to offer his face to become a wolf, but he just gets it back. He dies, he gets saved by LOVE. Roman has an axe and waits for the bad wolf to bite it instead of taking a swing. As Peter is fighting the white wolf everybody is just standing around. Get the ****ing axe, you ****. The sheriff is also an idiot who just starts shooting around in the end. And then everybody is just going to lie in his favor. Yeah right. Somehow most of this **** could have worked, if effort was put in. But it wasn't. so **** this ****.

So, I was bored and started watching this snooze fest, then someone said it really was going to get better and then I was curious if it managed to stay this bad till the end. I watched the whole thing and it was never any good. It was forced, predictable and very unrealistic. But I can't blame the actors for this, they did good, in some cases even great, making something of the unbelievable dumb dialogues they got, yes sometimes you can see how bored they are, but if there is anything good about this thing, it's the acting. The music is nothing special, the special effects are sufficient, the camera work is decent, but the writing... I checked the spoiler box, so I could list some of the 'plot twists' you know are coming, just so you know you got it right. The father is not really dead, the uncle is just a troubled guy with good intentions, the mother has powers too, the lead lady and the lead guy hook up, the best friend finds out and becomes a target, but survives, the bad guys' daughter dies, etc etc etc. Almost every plot reveals itself as it begins. Except for the epilogue which had some surprises, mostly because IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. And the premise? It's dumb. Just dumb. Evolved humans that can fight, throw people around with their powers, use guns, but can not kill, how does that even work? There is so much wrong with the story.

Some of the fight scenes are decent, but only some of them.

Ow my God, this thing was a waste of everything!

The plane hijack with the guy disguised as Tom Cruise was stupid, Tom Cruise climbing in the mountains and hanging around with one hand was over the top, but not in a fun way. It was just dumb and unnecessary. Then the bath tub scene was kind of okay, but the conclusion with: "I triggered the alarm, heh heh!" was quite dumb again. And then the chase - ridiculous - and kissing scene, Oh My God, the kissing scene. It was just awful, horrible, scarring, sickening!

After that this thing didn't really get any better. They found a way to make every twist predictable and every action scene stupid and dull. It strange, I've seen a lot of bad movies, but most bad movies are more entertaining than this. How can you suck all the fun out of the cheese? How can you make 'over the top' boring? This movie can teach you that. I am surprised at how cheap this movie feels compared to how much money went in it. I am typing this as the last boring dumb stupid cliché scene plays out and even though I am multitasking I feel like I have been wasting time. I feel scammed.

*beep* this movie.

You've been warned, if you want to play this movie at home, make sure you are doing something else as well.

I don't want to sound harsh or cruel, but let's all be honest: The kid should have exploded.

Don't forget we are dealing here with a superior bloodthirsty alien race that thinks of people as tools. Not only can this race of bad scum mother lovers create a disease that can wipe out thousands of people without even giving them the time to make a simple call, they also have the technology to attach a time-bomb, with the power of a nuclear explosion, to somebodies heart. A bomb that will explode when tried to get rid off through the stargate or when a certain time has been reached. Also, taking the bomb out of the hostess will kill her. Sounds like those alien butt wipes really know how to make a bomb, right?

But then after almost half an hour of tear jerking emo-TV the bomb doesn't go off, because... When it's getting away from the Stargate the bomb simply dissolves itself. Really? Really really? So it's okay to kill off thousands of unknown people, but a little girl with a bomb attached to her heart created by a bunch of technically superior aliens can not die because she has a name... Is that alien race even for real?

Now tell me, after seeing this episode, how can anything in this series ever be gripping or thrilling again, knowing the makers will ALWAYS take the save and predictable path?

I'm not often writing reviews for IMDb, but since this movie is so high rated, I feel it's my duty to write something down as well.

This movie is the kind of thing you should see on television, interrupted by commercials, zapping to MTV and Jerry springer, or toilet breaks. As long as you're not trying to follow a story, this movie might be alright. But if you want to follow a story, just skip this one.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a 'terrible' movie, but it is 'terrible mediocre'. It's predictable, cheesy, shallow and amateuristic. The conversations feel unnatural and a lot of the made decisions are illogical. It annoys me when a group of people rather keeps screaming at each other than look for a constructive solution. It annoys me when somebody takes a tinkle right where an alien was blown up, while it is not sure at all whether the alien has died. It annoys me when his friends keep telling him how displeased they are with this stupid action, without looking out for the alien. It annoys me when a group of people decides to kill the alien and then don't kill the alien, but run away for his cripple, burnt remains. It annoys me when a girl shows her breasts and the camera moves up, if you're not going to show her breasts, then why would you put this in the script?

I think people should make movies out of creativity, not to just keep the industry working. I would give this thing 4 point, but since it has such high ratings, I give it a 1. Just for balance.

When I watch a horror/actionmovie, I want to see some action and I want to see some cool deaths. I do not want to sit with my mouth open in shock, wondering why the hell somebody would do such a stupid thing. Too bad that was exactly my situation for about fifty minutes, then I turned it off. It doesn't matter, I already knew how it would end after the first ten minutes and so would you. Yeah, its that kind of movie. Why would anybody yell for about ten minutes at his teammates while trying to hide, take of her camouflage, take of his jacket while laying on the ground with the killer face to face, stabbing an obvious innocent guy, killing a teammate in such a bloody stupid way, it makes me cry, shout at each other for minutes without anything else going on, etc... All I really can say about this piece of crap is: just skip this movie, its not worth it.

If you're younger than ten, you might find this movie exiting. If not this movie will be a waste of your time. The characters are all flat and cliché, their actions predictable, just as the 'coincidents' in the storyline. You know the boy and the girl will hook up, even though there is no chemistry between them at all. You know the boy will defeat the Super Evil Demonic Bad Guy, even though he doesn't really do anything to deserve such a victory, got no dragonfighting experience and makes one stupid mistake after another. The special effects are pretty lousy and the dragons that appear are in no way believable.

Here a short summary: Boy lives in village. Super Evil Demonic Bad Monster shows up, burning and eating everyone. Boy surprisingly turns out to be the 'chosen one'. Boy must seek stones to complete his medaillonthingy. He meets: Super Strong Fighting Good Girl (She's going to betray him after she got brainwashed by the Super Evil Demonic Magic of a Super Evil Demonic Mirror, but in the end everything will be okay) and Super Strong Fighting Good Old Guy. (He dies, thank you God!)

Then there are: A Super Brave Fightin Selfsacrificing King, A Super Evil Bad Trader Guy, A Super Evil Stupid Blind Spider and the Super Evil Demonic Bad Guy Himself.

The boy fights the Super Evil Demonic Bad Guy and, of course, at first it seems like the hero is going to lose (Whahaha, yeah right!), then suddenly he wins because his magic (which he just discovered) is stronger for no particular reason. The girl walks up to the boy and kisses him, also for no particular reason. They look at their Super Strong Good Dragon (who came up in the last 2 minutes to fight the Super Evil Demonic Monster) flying in the sky. END.

There is actually one scene in this movie that I really liked: The battle between the two armies, somewhere at the beginning of this picture. It was kind of arty.