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Vigil (2021)
Weak story line and awful stage sets!
There are so many things in this series that irritate me, it's so obvious what will happen next and I am generally rubbish at predicting movies and series.
I hope to God our submarines are not crewed and run as this program portrays, otherwise we are in serious trouble as a country. Arguments in the command room, crew rude, insubordination and disobedient with no regard for rank. The submarine is fraught with issues, I think 4 major incidents in the space of 3 days!
The stage sets are so clearly a room on land, with false walls and I never knew vanguard class submarines were so full of plumbing piping from B&Q! Also clearly we have the biggest subs in the world according to Vigil stage sets! Reminded me of 1970s Doctor Who sets.
The acting is ok'ish, but this is definitely not even close to the standards of Line Of Duty or The Bodyguard.
Really poor......
The Good Fight (2017)
Annoying cartoon songs
Love the series but the cartoon songs are annoying and ruin the program in my ciew.
Warrior Nun (2020)
Adjust brightness
Can't watch it, it's so dark I had to adjust my tv!
Gave up....
Amazing Stories: The Heat (2020)
Poor acting old story
This has been done so many times!
The acting and effects were diabolical, really poor.
Slow and dragged out, not the usual Amazing Stories level of quality viewing.
Replicas (2018)
WTH!!
Quality measure:
Matrix - no
John Wick - no
iRobot - not even close
This is shockingly poor! I did not warm to any characters, the story was obvious, ridiculous and flawed!
The effects were tv series level best.
The acting was terrible amazed someone of Keanu's reputation signed up to this!
A Vigilante (2018)
Lack vigilanteness!
It's very slow and depressing, the moment she starts to kick butt you don't see anything, clearly the fight scene choreographer was on holiday when they made this film so the cut from perfectly healthy man to blood covered man lol
Glad I watched it on Netflix I would be gutted if I spent good money to see this drivel
Luchshe, chem lyudi (2018)
Ok but slow going
You can clearly see this was made on a budget.
The dubbing is awful but I guess better than reading subtitles.
The story is not bad and it is slow going, I found myself waiting for predictions of the story line in my head, which eventually got there, I preferred the UK Humans to this.
It was annoying that the star Bot was a super hard assassin but when she did attack it was quite lame, not done well at all.
Catch-22 (2019)
Superb
Fantastic I highly recommend!
I really great take on a WWII movie
41 (2012)
I was tricked by IMDB reviews
I have a rough rule of thumb, anything that scores over 5.6 on IMDB I will watch and generally I like!
But this, this steaming pile! What the hell, the acting is terrible...... really really terrible! Not even B movie level
Mandy (2018)
So slow......
Lots of long pauses and staring.
Very weird
Incredibly slow and long drawn out scripting
Just odd!!!
Paradox (2016)
Bad acting, terrible FX, ok story....
I guess it's worth a watch as part of a Netflix package but if I purchased this film outright I would have been upset.
The acting is just awful, like watching a school drama performance, about as much emotion and feeling as you get from a pair of rubber gloves!
The FX are very cheap computer generated and poorly overlayed on the movie. Stage set is a building, pretty much all the film in a building.
The story is not bad, I love time travel films though so can be quite forgiving, but it's ok to watch.
Hunter Killer (2018)
Errrr wth was that!
In the first 20 mins a Russian and US sub was destroyed, a US sub and crew who were all on leave was deployed, sent out to find the sub that was destroyed, they found it in less than a minute of film, got into a fight with a rogue Russian sub, destroyed it and rescued survivors from the other stricken Russian sub, formed an alliance and were ready for tea and medals!!
Fast moving or what!!!?
The XO I wanted to punch, all he did was moan and disagree with everything the captain of the sub said, I would have fired him!
Gary Oldman who I absolutely love, his character annoyed me, always shouting and in a panic! "Send out our fleet!" "We don't have time!" Damn annoying....
Story line was weak! I did not warm to any of the characters.
Very dissapointing. I normally live all these actors and submarine movies....
Bad Samaritan (2018)
Very good
Wow David Tenant plays bad so well! Terrifying!
Thoroughly enjoyable film!
First Man (2018)
Slow, lots of camera shake
Nothing worse than arty farty directors that love zoomed in, choppy editing and camera shake! Found it hard to understand what was going on.
The sound effects of growling tigers was weird, not sure they can breath in space.
Then between that and lots of slow scenes of staring, paused long silences, did not really capture anything for me.
For me it was poor! Really poor....
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Not as good as 1
At the start there was a fairly generous serving of things be made equal, but then it got very deep and meaningful and if I am honest slightly boring story line, I watched hoping for some more equalisation as we all love how he kicks but despite the unequal odds, but alas no, not until the end until there is a mild amount of equalising with a lot of wind and rain.
I preferred the 1st rendition myself, but it's worth a watch, just lower your expectations and prepare for the distinct lack of equalising.
22 July (2018)
Shaky camera adds nothing!
Yet again a film ruined by Greengrass and his camera shake, when will you learn this adds nothing to viewing pleasure! It's distracting, irritating and ruins your movies.... The human eye does not work like this!
Lifeline (2017)
Enjoyable, worth a watch
It's a great concept, jumping forward to fix a predicted outcome, instead of backwards and unravelling time. Love the idea of a life insurance as well, very good idea.
I am going to comment on the negatives, however, despite these it's still worth watching, lower the expectations a bit and you will enjoy, if you are expecting something quite revolutionary then you will be disappointed.
The script writing is a bit clunky and compressed to squeeze the story into the 25 minute episodes, feels quite rushed in places and a little childish, sort of like a day time tv series. The acting is very amateurish in a lot of it, with these two issues combine I found it hard to warm to any of the characters and fully engage or take it seriously.
It's starts off really well, lots of time jumping, quite exciting, as the story developed I started to lose interest a bit, the classic revenge story was annoying...
Overall it is quite light hearted easy watching, but not very gritty or engaging, worth a watch, just don't expect too much.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016)
Ok, I am breaking the trend, my reason why I rate so high
I love many musical productions and one of my favourites is Jesus Christ Superstar, which has been redone many times with varying degrees of success, but do any of them beat the Ted Neeley version in 1973, probably not, but they are all very good and have their own merits. Ian Gillan as JCS was mind blowing!
For me RHPS original is sublime! Since then there have been many many stage shows which I am sure we all love! The way to treat this movie is as a stage show version of the orignal that has been filmed and edited on superb film sets in high quality sound and video! The voices are out of this world, the acting is just as tongue in cheek as the orignal and it's great fun! Laverne Cox is incredibly sexy in this role and her voice gives me shivers and goosebumps! I especially love the Tina Turner style dancing on Rose Tint My World.
So if you haven't seen it, go in with an open mind of a production version of the film, not a competitor and enjoy the familiar songs and story performed by some top actors and singers, it's an 8 from me! Nicely done.....
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Camera shake and choppy editing
It's like the director and editor have a new toy to play with. Frustrating to watch due to all the camera shake and 10 edit chops per second. I can't stand it when films are ruined by this sort of filming, it adds nothing and removes so much enjoyment.....
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
Painfully slow
If you like lots of long silent scenes that don't go anywhere you will love this.
I found it really boring to view, incredibly slow, really long scenes of staring people, very arty farty......
Awful sorry, I don't get it....
Downsizing (2017)
Started well turned rubbish
Started exactly like you expected all about getting and being small, but once they were small then the movie turned into a weird love story/environmental story, there was little in the movie that related to them being under 5" tall.
The story was weak and slow once he loses his mansion...
Very disappointed! Could have been so much better....
Hostiles (2017)
Good acting terribly slow story line
It's slow going, the action in the trailers is about all of it, lots of very long scenes that are incredibly boring.....
Midnight Special (2016)
Dull, slow, boring
I sat through all of this hoping it would develop into something more exciting!