Reviews

I didn't have much hope for this series when I heard about it. Peacemaker was The Suicide Squad's most hated character, outside of Amanda Waller. Couldn't fathom why you'd ever want to produce a series based around him. Peacemaker was a pretty much irredeemable character.

But after eight short episodes, I'm sold. This was a great series. A interesting thoughtful and engaging story line. Characters one grew to understand and care about what happened to them.

I recommend watching this series. Especially if you're a DC universe fan.

I hope they do a second season and it lives up to the standard of the first.

No one going to ever confuse Sean Patrick Flanery with Bruce Willis. No ones going to confuse Weston Coppola with Alan Rickman. No one's going to confuse an abandoned hospital for operational Veterans Administration hospital. Even one in the economically depressed ass end of western upstate New York.

The premise that a four star Marine general would travel to the ass end of up state New York to see a psychiatrist is laughable.

Most of the characters are caricatures. They're not fleshed out in any shape or form.

The writing is cliched.

The special effects like gunshot wounds are atrocious.

If you can watch this for free on the internet and have some time that really needs killing, give it a shot. If you pay to watch this, you'll be pissed you wasted the money. I guarantee this.

Great take on Jason Todd.

Wonderfully obnoxious. Especially his bald faced lies to Grayson about Batman letting him drive the Batmobile. Truly great braggadocio. As if that ever happened! That fact that Dick falls for it is delicious.

All this serves to create a epic portrayal of Jason Todd. One who is mouthy and so utterly full of himself. Not so far removed from the street punk he was when he crossed paths with the Batman.

All we see makes one almost think his future final run in with the Joker might have mitigating circumstances. Dare I say, it makes one sympathize with the clown price of crime's decision to shut the little punk up permanently. Poor Joker just wanted some quiet.

The juxtaposition with the staid Dick Grayson works so well. This is obviously an episode that moves Grayson a step closer to becoming Nightwing. To finally become his own man separate from Batman.

I'll be impressed when the BBC has intestinal fortitude to depict British acts of discrimination and bigotry on Doctor Who.

Let's see them depict Bloody Sunday, the Bogside Massacre on January 30th 1972 when British soldiers murdered 14 Irish civilians when they gunned down 28 peaceful protestors in Londonderry, in Ulster, Northern Ireland who had the temerity to want equal rights for the Irish in occupied Ireland.

Let's see them depict the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre which took place on 13 April 1919. When the British Indian Army opened fire on 5000 peaceful protestors, killing between 379 and 100 men, women and children. wounding 1100 others. They stopped only because they ran out of ammunition.

Let's see them depict the Chuka Massacre in Kenya in June 1953 with 20 unarmed people by the King's African Rifles B Company.

The 5th KAR B Company had been sent to the Chuka area on 13 June 1953, to flush out rebels suspected of hiding in the nearby forests. The Company commander, Major G. S. L. Griffiths, set up a base camp from which he directed operations - two platoons would sweep through the forest to flush out the rebels, while African members of the local Home Guard policed the forest boundary. The sweeps were conducted by two junior officers. This was a typical anti-Mau Mau operation.

Two Mau-Mau fighters that were recently captured were brought by the soldiers to act as "guides" to assist rebel hideouts. When they were questioned, neither were willing to provide information. Griffiths and his two junior officers interrogated the men, and when the first prisoner seemed unwilling to co-operate, Griffiths ordered that a hole be made in his ear with a bayonet. A string was passed through the gaping wound, to be used as a tether over the next four days. The second prisoner also proved uncooperative. His ear was amputated on Griffiths' orders, and he was then summarily shot dead. Griffiths would later claim he had been shot whilst trying to escape.

In early afternoon of 17 June, a patrol of ten men moved out of the forest and into the surrounding farmland. It came across twelve members of the Home Guard gathered at a farmhouse. For reasons that have never become clear, the twelve men were ordered to lie face down, and were badly beaten. Two of the victims were sent to fetch food for the soldiers - and subsequently made their escape - while the remaining ten were escorted into the forest by the KAR patrol. They reached the soldiers' camp around 4 pm and made to lie face down in a line. At sunset, they were shot where they lay, at close range and in cold blood.

The following morning, 18 June, the Warrant Officer led his patrol along the forest edge, close to the settlement of Karege. Again it encountered and interrogated a group of Home Guards. The soldiers pillaged food gardens in Karege and shot a farmer before escorting their captives into the forest. African witnesses saw a British officer with the patrol. Early that afternoon, the captives - nine men and one child - were executed in a clearing near a small coffee farm at the forest edge. Soldiers cut off the hands of six of the victims and tucked these into their packs before returning to camp. The final killing occurred between 2 and 3 am the next day, when the surviving guide, still tethered by his ear, was shot, allegedly while trying to escape. At dawn, the soldiers broke camp, heading back to B Company's headquarters at Nyeri, leaving the body of their dead guide where it lay.

This movie wasn't just stupid, it was beyond stupid.

The graphics s/f/x looked like they were done by a child on a home computer. I've honestly seen movies created by kids on you-tube which featured better graphics.

The storyline was inane and convoluted. There was nothing about it that was unique. It makes Quentin Tarantino's rip off scripts look good, which is a monumental task.

The casting looked like they just hired a bunch of porn actors and actresses for scale. The characters were trite and superficial. There was nothing about them that made you empathize with them or root for them. The actor who played the lead 'hero' priest looked like a refugee from a mobster movie.

I can't believe anyone actually thought it would be a good business decision to pay to dub this Italian production film into English so it could be released in the US. Dealing drugs would have been a better decision.

Don't waste your time.

Judd Nelson playing the part of Burt Reynolds. I always thought that was the best way to describe this film. That description is not meant to take anything away from it. Just a description of it.

Like in many of Reynolds' roles, Nelson plays a smart mouthed wisecracking anti-hero. He's not nearly as sure of himself as his pretends to be. Like many of Reynolds' characters, Nelson's Billy Turner is making it up as he goes along as he seeks rough justice. Unlike many action adventure films, the outcome is in doubt. Turner is not an invincible killing machine.

I remember seeing it when it came out. I thought it was a fun film worth watching. The theme is appealing. I think it's an underrated film and the proof the critics' opinions are just that: opinions and therefore subjective. You have to see it for yourself.