Reviews

Ok this episode like the previous one is losing me.

I loved the first half of the season because it had a story and good balance, but this is turning more into a showcase of what MAPPA can do than anything else.

Yeah the first part of the episode is entertaining, they went hardcore dynamic animation, it's fun I like it but why?

Why doing a complete Evangelion ripoff? I mean I'm all for easter eggs and such and it's fun to see a studio/creator add a little hint or.tribute to a well known title but this is pushing it at this point.. from the design, to the animation to the cockpit design, the "time" limit, the SCREAM, everything seriously.. was is just MAPPA wanting to flex on gainax or something?

That got me out of the episode completely by the end of the fight.. fight which outcome was settled before it even started.. which begs the question: why? Why do all this?

Maybe the next few episodes will bring some answers but so far the season is all over the place.

If I had to rate the studio's performance I'd give them a solid 9, but for the fun and story since the goto arc is finished, nothing more than a 4.

I hope things pick up from here (and not just by killing off characters "because it's the cool thing to do to be edgy")

Seriously how can this movie gets such an high rating with so much 10/10 and such? I'm not gonna drop a 1/10 on this, it's not BAD or awful as some DC movies, but it's probably one of the worse MCU movies easily..

Sure I had high hopes for this after endgame but it's just a teenager eurotrip movie, I cringed so hard all movie long, if it wasn't for my gf I would have honestly stopped and do something else some scenes are really nice, but then again Dr Strange was actually more impressive with VFX and it came years ago.. All that teenager thing really ruined my experience for me, the story was paper thin, just stretched behind a wall of "shocking reveal" (gosh that reveal scene was terrible, lazy writing at its best)

There are tons of loophole in that movie starting with the elemental that just DON'T work, at NO point do they explain in the movie how they make them work! drones just shoot shockwaves, flames and bullets but they do not produce heat like the fire golem would nor throw millions of liters of water around town and so on I know it's a super hero movie, not interstellar or the martian, but still make it at least plausible not straight down silly

There are some redeeming factors, and I'm mostly talking about the post credit scene which makes you actually want to see what's coming in the next movie, or Jake's acting that was great (though a bit too much at the beginning), but as for "far from home" it's probably one that I'll never rewatch ever again.. it serves no purpose, it's random, it's executed poorly, might as well not exist it wouldn't change a thing for the MCU (except if the whole point of this movie was to give away peter's ID.. or they might just dismiss that within the first few minutes of the next movie, then in that case just forget all about this movie for real)

Bottom line: as disappointing as it could get.. and MORE!

This is typical from DC movies/animation, while everyone moved from their origins laid out in the 50's or so, they just decide to stick to it, ignoring the fact we're in 2019, making everything feels out of place, out of time.. Talking about time when you mess with it with time travel you better be equipped for it.. And they were not, bringing all sort of inconsistencies, the cheap kind, like at the end when the new justice league comes from the future.. But why now? Why pick the date at the end of the fight with one of them dead instead of going back before the fight, hell even before they get attacked at the very beginning of the movie.. Anyway, a movie aimed for kids, nothing else, but even with that in mind it's barely any better than an episode of some series, so yeah it doesn't deserve a 5/10 for me

I caught up with supergirl episode to watch this specific episode, thinking it might be a good crossover or something..

so not only was it a pain to watch season 2 or supergirl (which is terribly bad)but to end up on that musical episode it's like *insert gross imagery* on top of a slice of *insert another gross imagery* I don't mind musicals, but if I want to watch one there is glee out there, and many others.

this episode was just garbage, not the props, the actors etc, just the whole concept was bogus, and making it a crossover was just a terrible excuse, it could have been flash only, would have spared me the pain of watching supergirl And I might add I'm even more angry at the production to play this trick as the season 3 or flash seems to be filled with filler episodes and non sense, they just ran out of ideas (grudd on two episodes seriously, I can watch movies with monkeys invading that are much more satisfying) etc... I don't know if they planned a season 4 of the flash but it will be without me, this episode was just what tipped me over

that's the new trend in Hollywood, those trilogies made with kids/teens for kids/teens. while hunger game came kinda first (am not counting movies like battle royal etc) it has some ups and downs but the following like divergent or the giver were real let down and I didn't want to bother with those movies again, and I didn't see the 5th wave coming.. it looked like an alien invasion movie, Chloe doesn't look too kiddish (even though her roles in kick-ass) so I expected a movie more like war of the worlds maybe, kinda serious, with some end of the world theme like 2012 or the happening maybe... and the beginning is good! it's serious, it's dark and best of all it's plausible!

If an alien race would want to wipe out humans they'd probably do things along those lines more or less, but it was good to see something like that.. but in no time it shows its real face: another teenagers trilogy movie!

so if you're tired of watching kids save the world while having a side love story to "spice" up the teenagers hormones well just skip this movie, it's all it is about

and it's a real shame, they had budget, they had decent actors, they just messed it up. Mazerunner (the first) managed to have teenagers and make a good movie out of it, even with its flaws, the 5th waves did it the other way around, they had a good movie's ideas, and turned it into a 18- movie.

and for the love of god for the second movie stop it with the cliché, the inconsistencies like that girl pretending to be a bad ass and yet always wearing that black make up and tidy hairdo etc, it reminds me more of a Japanese anime than a real movie...

anyway I don't need to say anymore, if you liked the mentioned titles you'll probably enjoy this movie, but if you like movies such as district 9, the happening, 28 days later, the road and so on.. well go watch those again you won't be disappointed at least

OK first thing first, I like the bonds movie with Craig, the series turned more serious and dark and yet felt like a real Bond movie.

That being said Spectre is just a 180° turn in the opposite direction Everything felt forced, from the dumb jokes to the action scene even!

OK from the start: The opening scene started out nicely, the day of the dead in Mexico, great setting, good feeling, shots are being fired and there you go, bond falls in a collapsing building.. on a sofa?! no no and no, it's not a Marvel movie, it's not even a Mission impossible movie, how can you decide to play such a lame joke first thing in the movie? at first I thought it was just a glitch that would have nothing to do with the rest of the movie.. sadly it wasn't! the whole scene in Mexico isn't bad though, probably the best bit of the movie by far I'd say, including the theme part with a nice song, not as flashy as skyfall but better in my own opinion, though casino royal stays the best by far

but what with the randomness in this movie? things happen without a reason, bond going to Austria to find "white" sitting downstairs with tons of screen for no reason and what not. The pursuit scene is one of the worse I've seen (with the Lucy one I must admit), running in circle in a totally empty Roma (guys, the capital of Italy? no cars, no bystanders, no nothing? is it a showcase of cars or some dangerous pursuit? and that old Italian guy listening to classical music in a Fiat 500 at 20km/h.. I mean comeon so much cliché in a single sentence hurts my feeling as a viewer when I go watch a james bond movie. I could name a ton more scene (sadly) like those, the most chocking would probably be the explosion scene in the desert.. with bond and his girl just turning back and watching a great fireworks, perfectly timed and managed, all that without moving an inch (oh by the way guys, a full blown explosion like that has to provoke some blast or something, you know like hairs waving or something at least?)

so yeah after the silly randomness comes the poor technique The photography is meh at best, lots of dark scene but poorly arranged, not much thought put into the lighting of the scene, some just added in post prod without much effort, giving it all a cheap look, or the washed white color during the torture scene (random much? oh and the super high tech thing obviously failed in so many ways) felt like watching a 70's bond..

And most importantly on the story side everything went down the drain.. It was supposed to be some kind of grand final of the previous Graig bonds, tying everything together and that would have been a GREAT idea, having some follow up between the stories.. except nothing ever come close to a story here. it's basically a super villain which happens to be bond kind of evil brother that rule all the other previous villain thingy.. yes that sums it up pretty well! what's his plan? setup some super spy network that link together some of the major countries intelligence resources (south Africa really?) so first of all when will any country give their intelligence away like that? but let's admit they would.. and let's admit that this "guy" can take control of it.. wait.. he already did before it's even up? he can use the cameras inside the MI6 in his super spy room thing (straight from the old bonds movie style) before all this network thing is up.. so why does he need that plan yet? well nevermind let's admit he needs more info or something...

what's his plan? steal some sex tape of rihanna or something? because I can't see the grand scheme behind all that.. the comparison with the meteor crashing down on earth and such.. can't see the relation, one can cause a big blast, the other? some minor nuisance at best We're being told he controls already a lot of pharmaceutic in Africa and such, which actually do sound like a big evil plan, that could perfectly be the reason why he's the bad guy and bond needs to take him down

Sadly for us that's all there is for a story.. randomness, you have to either completely skip the story part and stick with the character interaction or try to make up a story for yourself with the bits and pieces you have here

I can understand now and also relate why Craig wanted Spectre to be his last bond, I really like him and what they've done with the series so far but this is obviously the "one last" that should have been avoided

Sure some hardcore fans will probably enjoy all the easter eggs of the movie relating to the old bond movies, there are tons from the snow base to the car with all the toys in it, the base inside the crater reminding us of moonraker, that big guy looking like Jaws (once again why that dumb joke when he's about to die? it's not a Marvel movie for crying out loud!), octopussy with the spectre logo (looks more like an easter to me than a relation between spectre and an octopus by the way).

Other than that I really consider Spectre to be the weakest of the Craig series, and yes I prefer Quantum of Solace over Spectre, it had some consistency at the very least, the photography was better as well. Let's hope for the best for the next bond movie, starting out fresh, with or without Craig and a brand new story line, thought from the beginning to the end whole

it's clearly not an episode for the usual watchers of the series, you have to know all the references from the 80's to enjoy it to the max transformers (one shall stand and one shall fall), tron, galaxy riders, heavy metal

and that SONG! it's rare to have a decent song usually in cartoons and anime, but night begins to shine is just one perfect song, it gives the episode that whole 80's feeling, am sure it would sell quite a lot on itunes if it were to be released!

the whole art style of the episode is just great, it counters those criticizing the series saying the style and animation is bad, not it's not, it's just an art direction, you might not like it and it's fair, but that studio is talented and they keep proving it

so anyway I'm gonna go rewatch the episode AGAIN and again now, and you should do the same!

Well am not gonna write an essay on this movie, it's just not worth it everything up to the idea behind the movie is way too messed up to sound even close to plausible..

Celebrities illness sold to hardcore fans by the thousands, cloned celebrities meat (yeah meat) sold for some fancy disgusting looking restaurant or whatever.. really? so in middle of that kind of messed up ideas you have that guy, he looks as messed up as the story he's stuck in, always speaking as if he's on heavy sedation, whispering horribly (hard to catch everything he says even)..

no matter what happen to him you can't feel any sympathy for him, or anyone in the movie for that matter.. you just look at them and hope for the movie to finish soon, there is no fancy twist in the plot or anything on the technical level the movie isn't all that bad even if it does look cheap (probably is a cheap budget anyway it doesn't really matter), but that's not the issue here...

really just save yourself some time, skip this movie, and while am at it, the ending is terrible, doesn't make much sense, the way the hero recovers magically and whatever.. gah there is no end to this badness!