Reviews

Let's clear this up first. Tom Cruise was awesome, doing most if not all the stunts himself and the featured man "running event" !

The movie however is way too long, and the plot is full of holes and convenience fixings. There is just too many instances of pick pocketing to the point of being a plot service tool.

Tom parachutes (glides) into the train car at the exact moment and location to rescue his counterpart.

One item is where does the special key go? Sevastopol the sub but only one person knows. Gabriel doesn't know but Paris is working with him and she tells Tom as she is dying...how convenient!

I found it tedious to watch and frankly it got boring. I won't buy the BluRay disc as I have no desire to watch it again.

The good: of course the scenery, roads (except parts of Bolivia) and the people. Top notch cinematography by Claudio.

However, let's face it this is a trip only they can do with virtually unlimited funds. They have "fixers" all over. Need to go electric? Let's ask Rivian for 2 trucks and Harley Davidson for 2 bikes, all free of course. And all pre production prototypes! Imagine having the manufacturers along with you on the trip?! Need parts? Let's just rebuild a bike in one evening...what's the rush? Always seemed in a rush for deadlines, that's NOT how travel should be! So many people, techs, vehicles, expenses, "fixers", it really was a scripted Hollywood trip like only money can buy.

Going green? Doubtful...they had a diesel van and used a diesel generator they brought along to charge up. And flights by HD and Ewan's daughter, all not very green is it?

In Mexico they are told not to drive at night. So they buy a beater school bus, waste days and money fixing it up to drive at night! Why? Ever heard of motels? Suddenly they are in the USA and no mention of the bus! where did it go? They hardly even rode in Mexico.

The originality and spontaneity of the original Long Way Round is absent and this one left a lot of gaps in the trip and the people, especially at the end. Would have been nice to hear from Rivian and HD on how their products performed and endured the trip. SO much missing, it truly felt rushed and choppy.

Watch the early episodes for the scenery and after Ecuador you can skip it.

OMG was this movie ever stupid! Remote controlling a nuclear submarine! People in the Arctic with no suitable clothing. Immunity to every bullet and in seconds, the nuclear submarine is moved from being on drydock stocks and then suddenly underwater and it is chasing down racing cars under the ice. Cars are harpooned and nothing happens. The acting isn't even worth mentioning but trust me there isn't any happening anyways.

Save your life, you're better off catching up on your sleep and any dreams you have will be more realistic than this nightmare of stupidity.

Every now and then I pop the Blu-ray Disc into my player and sit back to watch for 2 hours of some of the best material to come out of Hollywood. Contact takes you through the first contact in a way that we can only hope will happen, gradually and measured vs the abruptness of Arrival.

We get educated about science and only the master of Carl Sagan could deliver and explain it and make it so awe inspiring.

We're an interesting species, did you know that? " Full of beautiful dreams and such terrible nightmares ". What a wonderful way to capture humanity.

I can only hope our first contact will be as well done as this movie.

Arrival shows that SF has arrived and can be incredibly deep, beyond cliché phasers and photonic torpedoes. It shows us humans as merely not much more advanced than ants when our "anthill" is disturbed. We boil out and threaten annihilation to whatever our pathetic small brains can't understand or comprehend.

I fear if an "Arrival" situation ever happens we will be the ants in our reaction.

As for those who cannot understand the depth and complexities of this movie, return to your ant hole and avoid rearing up to what you can't understand. Or watch it again to observe the nuances of relationships and meanings therein. Interspersing this with language and imagery, past and present with time being non linear...yes, it is more than "the force". This is real humanity and SF, good, bad and ugly.

Expecting it to be all laid out in front of you is why some rate it poorly, you have to think this one out and make connections and reach further than any SF movie has gone before. Any plot holes are misunderstanding of the non linear time model, so in the future, Amy Adams' character can and does speak to the Chinese general.

May your travels be wonderful.

The first JR movie was acceptable. This one, terrible! It opens with 4 guys beaten and laying in a parking lot. JR is inside a diner. We don't know what exactly happened or why it happened. But of course JR is responsible. Not even sure why this scene was there. It serves absolutely no purpose or story enhancement.

There are so MANY plot holes it is impossible to keep count. JR may have a daughter, conveniently he finds her almost instantly. Guys with guns never used them properly or hit JR.

The scene when he is in prison and talking with his attorney, at the exact moment he is looking outside the window (convenient), he sees 2 bad guys coming in. They of course look the part, and park right outside the window at the exact time JR is looking outside. He then gets his lawyer to go get him a sandwich and she leaves her briefcase and wallet behind. JR then proceeds to escape a maximum security prison with little effort.

It goes on and on like that. He spots his 'daughter' in a huge Halloween parade in New Orleans, with literally thousands of people on the streets.

It is really a terrible injustice to Lee Child and his wonderful novels. Typical Hollywood hack and slash job on brilliant novels and story.

Don't waste your money and pay to see it. If you must watch it, wait for it to be on regular cable TV shortly.

If you haven't read any of the "Bosch" novels by Michael Connelly, I urge you to pick one up soon! If you can, start with the first novel in the series, "The Black Hole" and try to read them in sequence.

I was hooked from the first page and I had never had an interest in crime novels before, but what the author has done has introduced us to a character with real faults, he's not perfect! But the stories develop our understanding of Harry Bosch in a procedural way. Each novel doesn't work to outdo the previous one, but in fact adds to the previous one/s. Amazing.

Then when I heard about the series on TV, I was quite naturally worried, as often there is a failure to capture the essence of the novel to the screen, but it works amazingly well! I could not think up of a better person to play Bosch than Titus Welliver! He carries the character of Bosch and his mannerisms perfectly to the screen and you follow along to fill in the cracks.

I really like the authenticity of the representation of police work, activities and even the bad cops and the fallen ones.

You will laugh, wonder, curse and maybe even cry a bit throughout this series and if you haven't read the books or have and forgotten the stories, it will be refreshing and the plot twists are amazingly believable to keep you guessing, hence the magic of Michael Connelly's novels! I am hoping that this series continues to a 3rd and beyond!

Watched this wretched movie last nite. The only good things: Nice to see a tribute to Leonard Nimoy/Spock. Sorry, only one good thing.

Action? Nope, not even the crash landing of the saucer, seen that before. With no engines, tell me again how it got moving? Acting? Nope, and I am getting tired of Bones (Karl Urban) constantly 'joking' with Spock, way too forced and contrived. Give it up already.

Kirk (Chris Pine) can motocross like a pro on convenient roads. Instant action scenes that give me ADHD attacks.

Bad guys? Nope, nothing new, seen in many other movies. Morphed human goes berserk.

Logic? None, why did Krall wait for the Enterprise to attack Yorktown? Simon Pegg/Scotty, should stay in the engineering level and fix nacelles or food replicators and definitely stop writing screenplays.

If there is one more Star Trek movie like this, I am out forever as a fan and will not watch beyond (pun intended) it.

The soul is gone.

Way too funny! I did a search on IMDb for "Jason Bourne". Surprised to see 2 hits pop up. One is of course this $120 million movie and poorly rated at 6.9.

The other "Jason Bourne" is a music video and it is rated 7.9, and all that from a budget of $1,000! Now I have NO idea what or where the music video is but obviously more money doesn't mean better at all, of course.

I doubt I will watch this poorly rated and reviewed movie again until it is on free TV some late evening while trying to fall asleep.

I now suffer from ADHD due to the amateurish camera jerking all around. I'd demand a refund but fortunately I saw it for free.

What a boring and useless movie! I actually fell asleep trying to watch it. Apparently I found out afterwards that I didn't miss anything.

The whole movie was totally predictable. 2 geezers go hiking the Appalachian trail, a 12 year old could have written a better screen play.

Nick Nolte has not aged well, ever since North Dallas 40 he's been on a continual downward slide it seems. I actually thought he was dead, apparently not.

Robert Redford continues to make pathetic movies, like the sailing one (I can't even remember the title, it was so boring).

So every cliché you would expect when 2 old men try to hike the trail takes place. I really won't bore you with all the stupid scenes, so just save your money, save your brain and spend the time washing your car instead, this is really a dead end trail.

Well I finally went to see the movie, with a total of 5 others in the theater! As I feared, the force has fallen asleep. This was pathetic as I kept seeing the same story, the same roles, doing the same things and everything else as it was before. Heck, even the animated chess board on the Millennium Falcon was activated (and probably right back to where it was left 30 years ago)! OMG is this the best they could come up with? Really? Hiding underneath the floor/deck in the MF, is that all they can think up? Oh but hey, the MF has a new radar dish on it, rectangular shaped vs round...30 years allowed for that significant advancement.

The XWing fighters are still the same, after 30 years? Even the US Air Force upgrades to better technology in 30 years.

Even the alien band playing looked very familiar in the dark café/club....Where was the Rancour? (sp?). Even an evil alien there transmitting 'top secret' information...oh so boring, boring!

We have a masked bad guy with dark powers and all the rest... Really! OMG this was boring and painful to watch. The movie previews for other movies before this sleepy rehash were more interesting! And a big cavern/hole for someone to fall down into... I guess Han Solo/HF said kill me please, I can't take this same old drama again after 30 years.

I could go on and on, and I'm sure it's all been covered by other reviewers but at least I have said my part.

JJ, a major disappointment, pathetic that this is all you could come up with. And Mark Hamill/LS didn't even say a word, how silly.

I won't be buying this on BluRay and I won't bother to see the next movie.

Yawn, the force is putting me to sleep, darn mitochondria (sp?) are acting up again, laughing at me for spending money to see the same old over again!

That's the problem with the Internet, too much information and most of it useless! If you go by the reviews, it would seem that this is a great movie, but it isn't, let me tell you why.

Opening sequence, time wasted in a "continuous shoot"... Yawn, I get the idea, festival of the dead...move along, nothing more to see here. The building falls down and the parade continues? Strange. Then Bond gets close to a criminal's widow (Monica B) but it goes nowhere as in a relationship (insofar as Bond can have one of course!). I thought Monica was going to be his "lady of interest" throughout the movie? Didn't you? Her role serves no purpose. We found lots of flat sections and then bang, a chase, or action sequence. No development, just action sequences stitched together with bland sections. A high school playwright could have done much better.

Compared to Casino Royale, this is a badly sequenced movie. Then the opening song is hopeless and inane, with no memorable redeeming tone or 'tie in' to the movie, which they used to have.

We found the movie overall to be poor in colour saturation, being mostly a greyscale movie, possibly the theater but it does have all the latest Barco digital equipment, so I don't think it was the theater, just a poorly executed video capture that could have been run thru Adobe Premiere for a much better result.

Then Bond gets involved with Mr. White's daughter, probably half his age, oh yawn, where have we seen this before? What happened to Monica B? Oh yeah, she was there for 2 minutes and then gone, a total waste of her skills and character/role.

And the final sequence, Bond shoots down a helicopter with a pistol? Hello, that is dumb and I would hazard totally unlikely and improbable... from a fast moving boat being tossed around and considering the distances involved.

Another funny part, at Spectre's 'hideout', a meteorite of that size would have made a substantially larger crater than what is shown. Oh well. Then Bond is tied down to the 'torture chair', conveniently built for this purpose. Of course they leave his watch on his wrist, yawn. If Spectre knows anything, they know 007 employs gadgets.

And Spectre has a lot of people monitoring video feeds...that is from the 1970's....only reviewed if needed, as software monitors for key facial shapes and audio scanning for keywords, then flags it to be reviewed by a human. Really poor, somewhat akin to the 'computer/servers' in Skyfall on the island (super computers look like fish drying racks?).

I hear this is possibly Daniel Craig's last 007 movie, a shame he has to go out on such a poorly written story of a recycled theme of the elimination of the MI5 007 department (Skyfall just went thru that!).

So, boring opening sound track, no exciting opening sequence, poor colour rendition, flat line story with occasional action sequences with poorly coordinated music score (it was not very good), a waste of acting talent and a recycled story line and Bloefeld character to boot! I definitely won't be adding this sordid tale to my 007 collection of movies unless I see it at a garage sale for $2.

Well R. Scott did something better than Prometheus I guess. First the name, Mark W is not a Martian, he's from earth. Next up, the sky and the clouds, no go, no such on Mars. Looks a lot like Utah.

Turn around a massive spacecraft, piece of cake (not)...Chinese featured but why didn't they send a crew member or 2 to help/relieve one or 2 of NASA's crew members?

Then the best of all: why have huge expensive buildings/walls/pressurized hatches when a bit of plastic from Home Depot and duct tape will keep the atmosphere and heat in? Heck I can't even do that on earth! I doubt duct tape works at -60C temperatures. So apparently all they had to do was send a bunch of North Face tents that survive fierce winds on Mt. Everest and a Tesla with some solar panels and knobby tires.

Then the other Mars escape vehicle is fine and standing even though the first ARES craft couldn't stand up and almost tipped over. Gee, ever heard of support braces? A few 2X4's would have done wonders with the Home Depot order of plastic.

Hey kids, space is dangerous, (final scene), gee, We needed someone who survived Mars to tell them that? Guess they haven't heard about the Internet yet?

The only Mars movie that seems to be close to reality is "Red Planet", watch it if you can.

Where do I start? The poster shows an airliner with 4 engines, but the passenger jet in the movie has only 2! Poor continuity. Two passengers are sucked out of the plane and then no further mention of their loss! When finally landed, had a good laugh, you can clearly see a Westjet 737 airplane, in Germany!? 737's and Westjet can't and don't fly to Europe from North America. A huge gaping hole in the fuselage and it looks pretty calm in the cabin. And it was an awfully short plane, only about 8 rows of seats, no other seats? If that was just 1st class, the rest of the plane passengers were very quiet! Poor Faran, he deserves much better roles! All in all glad I didn't spend a nickel to see this pathetic movie that could have been better made by a 16 year old!

I had high expectations for this film by Chris Nolan. "Inception" was ground breaking, you could definitely say it had never been 'done before' or seen that before! The pre release hype was strong for Interstellar and I really enjoy SF movies, so pass the popcorn!

SPOILERS: Firstly character wise...There is zero chemistry between Cooper and Dr. Brand! Yet in the end, we're being told/shown that there is/will be? Really?

Then Dr. Mann, he was asleep for years and when they wake him, they don't verify his claims? And his mental status? Why was he sent on this mission in the first place? And he easily removes the communication device from Cooper's helmet, and so on. Really cheesy and poorly written. Then he escapes in the craft to get to the Endurance, hello? No security protocols? It is so unbelievable.

Time flashbacks...Cooper can revisit time, so why not pick a time he can really affect? Maybe further back and even help to prevent the natural environmental breakdowns that Earth is experiencing in this story.

Robots...black monoliths...hello where have I seen that before? Is this the shape that a space exploration robot would be designed as? This was so silly I couldn't stop laughing!

Fuel: They have a limited supply! OMG! Ever hear of nuclear power like in a submarine, etc? Also I would expect them to have perfected nuclear fusion or such to provide unlimited (almost) power. But no, they use chemical rockets (technology from the 1940's). This was so poorly written.

Let's not forget 'Waterworld' even, when they land on the water planet. Gee, maybe a survey/probe first would be in order? And then the other planet, looked a lot like the ice world in the 'Star Trek' movie a few years ago where Jim Kirk is exiled to and meets Spock.

And the most bizarre of all? He gets coordinates of a TOP SECRET base and he's just the person they want to fly the spacecraft? And no one else could find this base? Did the workers there need food from local providers?

Anyways, you get my point, it is so disjointed and when you watch it, it is a melange of many previous movies, hence Heinz 57 varieties. It carries bits of '2001 A Space Odyssey' (and its sequels also) which is a natural one to look to. Then 'Contact' and many more...truly picking experiences from a bevy of SF movies and mixing them. At least they didn't have thruster sounds in space! (no sound in space, remember 'Aliens'? No one will hear you scream!)

Is this the best that Chris Nolan and Hollywood can come up with? No original screenwriter/story out there?

My final measurement of a film is will I buy the Blu-ray disc when it comes out? Nope, not for this extremely long and drawn out film. I might buy it in the cheapo bin for $3.99 in a few years time and watch it just for the extras/deleted scenes and then put it on the shelf to gather dust.

So just like in the movie, I was hoping for a worm hole to get to the end of this long drawn out tedium...but unfortunately for me, time was actually going to be moving much longer than normal time and I've lost 3 hours of my life I'll never get back. So terribly disjointed with decent actors trying to save it.

Unless you are starving for a SF movie, avoid this like a bad worm hole and keep your feet planted on terra firma. Folks, this is a really terrible movie and I would avoid it and save your money for something else.

This is so predictable, so nauseating that I can't believe these talented men (and women) made this pathetic stupid movie! The premise is, like, written by a 10 year old. The geography is totally out of sequence, mountains and then New Mexico and so forth. One rider has a leather 'helmet' which does nothing for safety. The plot, is there one, is very lame.

On several occasions they crash a bike and then instantly they are riding again, no damage. Several times they are violently ejected off the bikes, no injury! I could go on and on. I ride motorcycles and it's nothing like this dumb wasted movie.

I am so glad I didn't pay a cent to see it, other than the fact that I lost my time watching it.

Pathetic in all ways, avoid it.

Watched this movie last nite, sad to see Bill Paxton and Laurence Fisburne in such a terrible event.

It's got so many technical 'holes' in it I won't even go there, many of which have been addressed already in other reviews.

You could easily see that Mason/Paxton would be the renegade turned hero and Fishburne would be the hero, yada, yada...a very predictable event. The Zombies are nothing new now of course, and as such are a weak attempt to introduce horror and plot to scare you when they could not think of anything else.

The bad ending: OMG, let's just carry some seeds and plant them in the next colony that has a hole in the clouds...

And I love it when it is supposed to be cold and you hardly see their frosty breath outside. Or in the helicopter with holes all around and it seems as warm as inside a house, etc...etc...

Just another end of the world movie based on a committee plot borrowing from many other ideas...yawn, a really terrible move for some great actors who deserve a lot better!