Reviews

I've been buying into the show. Full binge-watch mode. I'm at season 2 episode 7 and now I'm wondering if I need to throw in the towel. My spoiler is that Jimmy tries to get himself fired from the big legal firm his only recently joined. His efforts are, in my opinion, not funny, not realistic and lowering the overall series tone. Where is the build-up to the decision to leave the firm? Surely it can't be tied into the very lame excuse that it's for Kim's sake! Jimmy wanting to leave the firm has had no basis to be even remotely believable. His unbelievable attempts to get fired only serve to make it all the more glaringly stupid and bad writing. I'm very disappointed. It's a struggle to keep watching. I'll try to hang in there but the show's gotten bad.

As a metal musician myself with significant induced deafness I was particularly interested and apprehensive to watch the film. All in all it is an excellently filmed drama with a powerful story arc. The actual metal performance scenes and music are very powerful and emotional. I was worried it would be unrelatable (dumb, drunk skinheads or hairspray guys) and it wasn't about that. Okay the main gaff is regarding the actual process of the cochlear implants. In the film it seemed like one minute Rubin is thinking of getting them and two minutes later he's walking the streets wearing them and confused by the imperfect results. I personally have considered the process and know that much time, explanations and alcimatizing is expected. None of that was indicated by the film's writers. Consequently, Rubin is visibly surprised in the aftermath of his implant procedure regarding the results and that is not realistic. I was also confused that Rubin presumed to be able to borrow over $20,000 from a rehab counsellor that he had disrespected. What the hell! I still fully recommend this very good drama film.

I'm no expert on superhero movies. Not much a fan of multiuniverse stories etc but I basically did like this film. I almost did not go due to the bad reviews and it being labeled a flop. I'm VERY glad I DID go.

Okay, a bit of the CGI fight scenes looked like rough-draft early demo versions to be enhanced later. But to be honest, I don't know really what a guy being thrown 1000 feet in 2 seconds is supposed to really look like. Maybe it would look kind of like they showed it in the film. People complained about the cameos appearances. I immediately assumed they were intended to look a bit comicbooky. Great! Job done IMO.

Okay, I was very dissapointed that it was so easy to kill Superwoman/girl. I didn't really understand the plot at the end fighting the guy in the time vortex thingy.

The main baddies seemed two dimensional. I didn't like that Clark Kent didn't grow up on Earth.

I was confused with the whole 'we can't really change things' ending because Flash DID save his mother after all. Didn't that count as a success in any way?

I found myself laughing out loud repeatedly throughout the film. Why people insist it's really bad is beyond me. Maybe they saw it without the popcorn or something. I had mine and was very entertained.

I had some fun watching the film but I was disappointed quite often as well. I'll start positive. Keanu is kind of cool so that helped a lot. Now to some criticism. As others have mentioned, most of the fight scenes were choreographed so embarrassingly bad that I spent most of the film watching bad guys standing off to the side and waiting for their turn for John Wick to kill them. We see literally hundreds of trained assassins pointing and shooting high powered automatic weapons John at (who is usually standing out in the open) and yet non ever strike John. John falls flat on his face from the top of a building, gets hit 5 times by speeding cars,rolls down 6 flights of stairs after being pummeled relentlessly and in every case gets up almost none worse for wear. Even his suit never got dirty. At some points I accidentally laughed out loud.

A huge, huge plot hole was the radio announcer stating John's every move and update (including the increasing bounty money for killing John Wick). There was never any indication how they received the information instantaneously or why all the assassins happened to be listening to the radio at the same time. Who listens to radio now anyway?

The ending!?! Did he die? Did I miss it? One minute he's shot but still walking, talking needing a little rest and bath. The next scene shows his tombstone. Totally disappointing vague ending.

I had no idea how long the film was. It actually went fairly quickly although most of the fight scenes were double the length I felt they needed to be.