Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Obliterated (2023)
Don't watch unless you are under 17 or think like one.
Wow...the hallmarks of a mad movie/series were in display in the first 17 minutes.
1. Music blasting non-stop whether it was normal dialogue, or changed to so hyped electronica during action scenes. I mean non-stop. This is a tell-tell sign to distract you from the inferior product on the screen.
2. Talking about top-secret highly classified data in the open public. Goes along whit have clandestine meetings in diners where everyone can hear you. Stupid.
3. Blowing up buildings, offices, shooting automatic weapons in public, without a single policemen, military, neighbor or passerby reacting. And lets not forget, trained mercenaries unable to hit target that is 8 feet away....with automatic weapons.
4. Dialogue. One liners, half-liners, jokes that fall flat, unnecessary drama, just stupid.
This movie is for those who watch reality shoes and Jerry Springer.
Canary Black (2024)
That was bad
Pros: There is plenty of action, hand-to-hand, gunfights and leaps from impossible heights. There is intrigue, emotional drama, thriller, violence and great car chase.
Sounds perfect! But....
Action is stupid. The hand-to-hand and other action scenes are edited so much that you are fighting to see who is who. Also, the actions scenes shreds all levels of credibility. Five trained mercenaries with military automatic weapons firing at a single person with a hand gun (who is stuck in an inescapable corner) and somehow she takes them all out. Another scene where 4 bad guys with automatic weapons are unable to hit a car that is 3 feet away.
Dialogue....corny as hell. It sounds like something you would hear on a Saturday morning GI Joe Cartoon.
Security....none. People walk into a CIA safe house and is checked AFTER they have entered. I can't even get in my job's office supply closet that easy. Again, CIA offices, spy houses, top level secured hotel rooms can be walked into.
Music.....there is some type of electronic score playing in the background for almost the entire movie.....Seems like it was made to make up for the lackluster film.
Berlin Nobody (2024)
This was bad
This movie is 96 % talking....not character development talking, not building a plotline talking, just talking. Randomly. There are many conversations that goes no where and does not enhances the story.
Motivation: The movie never establishes the motivations to make people do what they do. They make decisions to satisfy the story without letting us know why they are making that decision.
Direction/Acting...in the few scenes that do contain some level of drama, the actors overact the scene which means yelling, gesturing loudly and walking out of rooms.
Lastly...boring. The first 20 minutes did little to pique my interest and even make me want to finish the movie. I should have gone with that instinct and saves myself 90 minutes of my life.
Civil War (2024)
Bait and Switch
If you are expecting a movie about what happens when the political climate becomes so toxic and certain states 'succeed' from the union and starts fighting.........No, this is not that movie.
This movie is about an girl's first week on the job as a war photographer, with the civil war in the background. Yes you heard it right. All the marketing and ads are focused on the 'fighting' but almost all the fighting scenes in the movie is seen in the ads. Instead of learning what caused the civil war, how it happened, or how it ended, we are treated to some 23yr wannabe who tags along with some professional journalists as they teach her the ropes while driving to DC. We never found out anything about the 'civil war' except that they are fighting.
The movie could have been intriguing from its perspective if it had advertised that way. I'm not going to criticize the acting, direction, writing except what the movie showed is not the movie advertised.
One really big complaint.....I was about to give it 5 or 6 stars until the director/writer got lazy and went as predictable of an ending as you can expect. I guessed 100% who was going to die and 'how' they would die. Just lazy.
Average Joe (2023)
I tried, I really tried
There are some likeable actors and the storyline is actually intriguing. The show has the 'right' idea, but is just so poorly written or directed or both.
The dialogue is completely cringe-worthy with many one-liner jokes falling flat. They tried so hard to be edgy and funny and dramatic and never accomplishes anything. Instead of regular conversations the banter is dumb one-liners and they stand around as if a live studio audience is going to start laughing. This felt less like a series and more of an Deon Cole deodorant commercial spread out into 10 hours.
So ignore the 8, 9, 10 star reviews, that are guaranteed fake because even the most brain-dead person would not go higher than a 6 for this snore fest.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
I tried, I really tried
Another reviewer said it best....hot convoluted mess. There is so many characters, so many betrayals, so many new and failed alliances that you do not know who to root for. There are a bunch of actors thrown on a screen and you not sure what government, country or entity they represent, yet the movie thinks you know all of this and care.
This is less a movie and more of a collection of stunts thrown together with some dialog. There are about five different fractions trying to retrieve the 'key' and somehow everyone is exactly where they need to be. In Vienna, all the parties are there, somehow knowing they should be there. Abu Dhabi airport and yet everyone is there. On a random train in Europe, somehow everyone is on that train and not once does the movie asks 'how did everybody know to go there next'. Deus machina is everywhere, there is a scene involving the train that rivals the stupidest stuff from the Fast Furious movies. It was this scene that made me turn it off.
You really truly do not know what is going on.
Another thing, these are the best of the best in spies yet they CONSTANTLY are being fooled by elementary style tricks.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Rooting for Leatherface
Ever see a movie where you were rooting for the villian? This is one. Arguably, Leather face is the only sympatheic character in this waste of film.
What's good. If you like gore, this has plenty and some of it is actually intriguing.
What's bad? Every single thing. Writing, horrible. Development, non-existent. But the worse crime is there are two good decisions with about 60+ bad ones. Even if everyone is 'Gen Z' they would not be at this level of stupidty. Also!! There are about 50+ cell phones and NO ONE called for help? No one? Yes, that level of stupidity.
I can't even. There is more logic to a Fast Furious movie.
Abigail (2024)
Cool premise, horrible execution
This was a very neat storyline. Playing off the 'little girl horror' of the movie 'Megan', there was a excellent chance for a Lost Boys type of horror comedy. But the director, writer or computer AI did not know what to do after that.
Logic: There is absolutely none. There are approximately 4 times when they split up AFTER they learn what is going on. People are smart for about ten minutes and are completely dumb the rest of the movie.
The fight scenes are mediocre at best.
I had to push hard to finish it. Again the storyline is the only thing that kept my interest.
I am giving five stars for the storyline and the little girl's acting, which was actually good. Otherwise this is a 4-star film.
Trigger Warning (2024)
SKIP!!!
At least that what I should have done.
1. Jessica Alba cannot act, or cannot act in anything requiring drama. She did her best Kristin Stewart imitation, having the same face in every scene. Her lines were also completely monotone, devoid of any emotions.
2. The direction is amatuerish at best. The film jumps from scene to scene, without any connecting storylines. Speaking of storylines, the film completely forget characters and never come back to them. People will die and no one will mention them, or their deaths just a couple of seconds later.
3. The writing is atrocious. With the exception of a few scenes the conversations are composed of one or two-liners and skip to the next scene.
4. Every cliche' ever. In a 4ft wide hallway with automatic weapns and cannot hit target, start fist fighting for no reason when weapons are near by, worst security ever, people cannot hear gunshots two rooms over, over-the-top characters, people appearing exacly where they need to be without any directions or locations.
1917 (2019)
Worth the watch
I had been avoiding this film because I did not think the storyline would keep me interested.....boy was I wrong.
This a an engrossing film and grabs your attention about 4 minutes in and does not let up. At no time did I feel like the story was lulling nor did I ever feel like the obstacles that was there was put in for dramatic effect. Everything feel realistic.
All the actors played their parts effectively, never venturing into over-the-top caricatures that we see too often in these films. The direction was on point, and the 'one take' appearance really added gravitas to the storyline. We were able to completely follow the journey because we saw the journey in its entirerity.
Last point, there is an equal amout of action, drama and humanity. Finally a film that I will fondly remember watching.
The Kill Room (2023)
Skip!
This is sold as a action comedy/black comedy/parody movie.....except there is very little action, and the comedy never goes higher than 'slightly mildly amusing'. Nothing is funny, ever. Out of a couple of scenes where someone is punched or choked, no action either. Take out some cuss words and 20 seconds of violence and this movie could have been PG, not PG-13, PG. It was that bland
The only thing the film does well is parody the art world establishment but other films have done this with better results(think Velvet Buzzsaw, CatFight or Big Eyes). Here you get a fairly generic movie, with generic writing, generic direction and wasted actors. This is definitely one of those, 'play in the background while I do dishes' type of movie.
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
You will forget you watched it
It is sad that I can remember more scenes, more dialogue from a movie 51 year ago(Exorcist) than I will from a movie I saw less yesterday....but folks....this is where we are at.
Nothing is bad...it is just nothing is good at all. It starts out with an intriuing setup and then decided to use the rest of its budget on special effects instead of storyline, dialogue, editing and anything else that would make for a compelling story. Too many random characters are thrown in with very little or non-existant backstory that you do not care what happens. When a key person dies...you feel nothing because you barely know who or what they were.
Take a pass.
The Night Manager (2016)
I miss Steven Spielburg
Only watch this if you like reality TV shows, something to escape from everyday life, something to turn your brain off. If you are logical, mathmatical, or somehow gripped in reality....you will hate this.
Pros.
Weirdly enough, the acting is actually good. The lead actress is the main weak link, while everyone else carries their load effectively.
The series has an interesting premise and is intriguing enough to keep you engaged
Cons:
The writer or director has never had a real job and or did not do any research on this topic. If this is a police drama, you should research police procedures to add a layer of realism. This series is almost someone's romanticized idea of a spy drama.
Examples:
1. This is a billion dollar classified illegal weapons case...so why am I talking about it on the elevator, in a hotel room, in a restaurant, in an open office with people around?
2. Security: Is none. A billionaire with a 100+ million dollar mansion, has no security cameras, no people walking around or an alarm system? I have a Ring camera, and will know instantly if someone is at my house. Here..no. Even at the MI-6 offices, top-secret classified paperwork is left on top of some other papers like it was the day's lunch menu. Safes only require 3 digits, and I guess to access anyone's hotel room is just ask for a key.
3. Top spy agencies are just dumb. Multiple events in this series could have ben solved with a Google search, yet thse top spy agencies, are unable to figure things out. As a matter of fact....everyone is dumb. Series exist only because people are making stupid decisions.
I was about to give it 5 stars, but the ending was abrupt and overall...stupid and dropped it a star. You do not get any satisfactions.
Sous la Seine (2024)
Rooting for the shark
A movie is not good when you are rooting for the villian. In this case, the shark was my superhero.
First of all, with 50 years of advanced technology, robotics, cgi and advancement in film....that sharks today look less realistic than Jaws? It is insane how fake today's sharks look.
To the story...it follows every cliche, nothing is original here, with scenes and dialogues almost straight out of Jaws or Deep Blue Sea.
Acting is way over-the-top, dialogue consists of screaming or incesseantly yelling someone's name. Sharks are fake looking, about the same level as a Sharknado And you cannot find one person making smart decisions. This is a complete miss.
Dangerous (2021)
I made it 8 minutes
Yes, I only watch 18 minutes and I want 20 back. Where do I start.
Signs of a bad movie:
1. If there is a steady dronning of music or sound effects over normal scenes. Check. That means the director/writer could not come up wiht a compelling enough scene or dialogue and they discract you with music.
2. Multiple scene edits. Check. That means the director/editor is trying to makea scene have more action than it really does.
3. Jumping from one scene to another without cooreation. Check. That means the film was edited too much, or the director is too bothered to establish world building. In this movie, yuou learn all the 'background details' in exposition or lame narration. Which leads to..
4. Narration without any purpose. Narration is a dangerous tool because it immediately establishes the the main actor is 'aware' of you watching. And unless you have Morgan Freeman or similar gravitas in voice, it it best to stay away. This film was a stay away.
5. Camera: This movie looked like it was filmed with an iPhone. Nuff said.
6. Dialogue. Stilted. Because of bad writing, the dailogue had to push the story along, which makes the story weak because it appears the actors are talking to tha 'audience' esplaining what is going on as oppsed to having a natural convversation.
Night Raiders (2021)
Good story, bad execution
This is not a complete waste of time, howevver, there are better ways to use this time(wash dishes, fold clothes, look at moonlight), all of which may be less boring.
The initial story is interesting, especially for those who watched Children of Men, which is absolutely fantastic. That movie had some action, some thriller, story drama, compelling ending, great acting and you cared about the characters. This one has interesting concept, decent acting and.......nothing else. It appears the director is the writer who had an idea but needed someone else flesh out the story. It is extremely boring, you never really care what happens to anyone, and a tacked-on afterthought as an ending.
It did do one thing...made me go rewatch Children of Men.
Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
Great premise....absoluting horrible execution
This move had potential to be a decent horror action drama...except it was written and/or directed by the someone who has NEVER taken a single science or match class.
Pros: Concept is inttriguing, not really original if you have seen any Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories episdode The movie draws you in. Around the 35 minute mark it goes downhill quickly.
Problems:
Science....there is none, take some riduclous scene from the Fast & the Furious movies and this will compete with it. I do not mean just once, multiple times to the point where you have not stopped eye-rolling, befor the next stupid thing happens.
Stupidity..These are trained military men, while I expect one or two to be dumb, or quick-tempered to create drama, here everyone is dumb and making dumb decisions, constantly.
Sense of Urgency...Zero. No one acts scared, excited, terrified for more than a few seconds. In one scene where everyone almost lost their life, they are having a conversation with the ssame tone of ordering a latte at Starbucks. Multiple times, they started talking about some other ssubject WHILE their life is in danger.
Finale.... I dropped it s star just for that alone.
Them (2021)
Only watch with your brain turned off-Season Two
Pros: It is an engaging and intriguing storyline. It grabs your attention and makes you want to fing out what happens.
Cons: Wow
1. Make sure your protagnoist can act. It is really hard when the person that is in almost 95% of screen time is unable to act. No emotional changes in face or voice. Her voice when yelling at a criminal to freeze, when her relative died, or when shot at had the same expresionless monontone performance...She definitely got this role off casting couch.
2. This movie does not exist if one..junst one person makes the right decision.
If, an offier call for back up like they should...movie does not exist
If a trained detective walk into the criminal hideout with a gun, movie does not exist.
If a very stocky, healthy 15year old kicks open a simple bathroom door, movie does not exist.
If a person realizing that there is a serial killer, go out at night, alone into the area with the serial killer..movie doe not exist.
And on and on. The plotline only movies forward because the actor is required to do something stupid.
Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance (2023)
Avengement--this is NOT.
I will admit, I am a sucker for revenge films. Recent good ones have been Sisu and Avengement. Considering this had a main character from Avengement, I thought I would give it a chance. Wrong.
It had revenge & violence. What it did not have was a conhesive storyline, good dialogue(not sure if there was dailogue, every one was saying dumb one liners), editing poorly, did not know who was who until 2/3 through the movie, ex machina everywhere in a big city like London, dumbest crimininals(one criminal actually stabbed overhead like a cartoon), dumb cops and all together bad decisions. Be everyone. To top it off, loud music is playing through most of the movie to obviously distract us from the trainwreck.
Do your self a favor, go watch Avengement again.
Sarinja-ng-Nangam (2024)
Does not go anywhere
This series tries to be a little bit of everything and not enough of anything. It wants to be black comedy...but fails. It wants to be a detective procedural....but fails. There seemed to be a certain 'powers', but that was never fleshed out. Wants to be revenge drama and nerd gets tough narrative....but fails that also.
So much iss going on that you are not sure what is going on. There so so many dream sequences and flashbacks, that you do not realize what is real or not. The direction/editing is bad as you jump from scene to scene without coorelation. And biggest offense.....there is some constant music playing throughout the whole series along with very stylized visuals, which are tell-tell signs that things was added to distract the viewer from the weird, badly written series.
I did not care or root for anyone.
War on Everyone (2016)
WTF?
What did I just watch? Okay, here it goes.
I enjoy black comedies. Very Bad Things, Evil Milo and The Babysitter is how you mix horror, action, inappropriate things with a level of humor. But one thing those films had that this one does not......is...humor. I did not find anything amusing because I am an adult with an adult-acting brain. This script could have been written by a horny 14-yr old and you would not notice a difference in the movie we just got.
The jokes are one-liners that appeals to no one over the age of 15(or people whose maturity level is not past 15). They are flat and unfunny. Outside of a brief moment with Paul Reiser, there is no dialogue, just different people making some random one-liner that the audience is supposed to laugh at. I can see someone rating this a 5 or 6, anything higher are fake reviews.
Killing Eve (2018)
Wore out it's welcome
If this had been a concise story done in one season, I could see an 8 or 9 star.
Maybe if it had concluded in season two, maybe a 6 or 7 star.
Season 3 was unnecessary and season 4 was so stupid that it was only because of the acting that the final score was not lower.
Remember Game of Thrones, how the last three seasons destroyed almost all the goodwill of the show. Same here, except it does not have five good seasons first, only one.
Problems
1. No one dies. There is so many death fake-outs that you do not even take them seriously. Shot in the stomach, no problem, stabbed everywhere..no problem , fall off buildings that would hurt Spiderman....yet in the next episode or so...they popped up again like nothing happened.
2. Billion dollar corporations and spy agencies with zero security. Seriously, my office has more security hiding supplies then this show. You can walk up anywhere if you get past one stupid guard, can hack anything with a simple laptop and have confidential conversations in crowded hallways or coffee shops.
3. Plot device and soap opera. Everyone it betraying everyone else, everyone is asking everyone else to trust them, even though I have betrayed them two episodes ago. For a show taking across all of Europe and Asia, people randomly run into each other, in different countries and cities several times a show.
Great storyline if it was a min-series or one season, taking it past that requires lazy writing...and there is an abundance of that here.
Fallout (2024)
Only watch this if you liked Rebel Moon
I know it is not, but it looks like a Zach Snyder vehicle.
Multiple locations without connectivity? Check
Lack of character development? Check
No understanding of character's motivations? Check
Irritating music or score always in the background? Check
Lot's of action yet still seems boring? Check
Single thin female warrior who cannot act and you really to not care if she lives or die? Check
Story pushed along by plot device instead of cohesive writing? Check
Not sure who to root for? Check
The only difference between this and Rebel Moon is that Rebel Moon took place entirely in a green screen warehouse. Here, the actual backdrops are real.
The Bricklayer (2023)
Three minutes!! Three minutes!
It only took three minutes in this movie to realize just how bad it is.
Direction: Absolutely horrible. There are four distinct scenes in the first three minutes that gives you whiplash as they come from nowhere, makes little sense and not related or pass the story along. Three of the scenes could have been removed and the story would not have changed(would have been better).
Acting/Writing? Not sure what caused it but the characters were talking in complete whole sentences with zero emotion, monotone, without in inflection in their voice. 'You are a rogue agent of the CIA and that is why I have been sent here to your hotel room in Berlin to shoot you with my handgun.' That last statement is not exaggerated.
Editing. It appears as if they grabbed some clips for the cutting floor from other failed movies and stuck them together. There are 'news clips' that look EXACTLY like they are from Starship Troopers. Why?
Aaron Eckhart is a very good actor and he was reduced to a
bad parody of Kneau Reeves which is highly frustrating.
The news scene are creepy, this movie should have been a comedy.
Invincible (2021)
Watch Season 1, Skip Season 2
Like most series that has an amazing first season just to completely blow it the second season.
The problem is the main character works better as a sidekick. With season one, even though Mark is the focus a lot of attention is on Omni-Man. With season two the focus is only on Mark and it is absolutely horrible.
1. The story appeared to be written by a jilted 25 female virgin. In a superhero show, too much of it is teenage angst . You cannot have R-rated language and violence and have storyline more akin to a Nickelodeon Lizzy McGuire having a crush on a new student. Just stupid.
2. You are one of the most powerful people on Earth, yet the fight scenes are boring because you sit there and watch the villain walk right up to you and hit you(you have Flash like speed!!!!!!!!). You stand there, mouth agape, do not turn around, do not fly and talk stupidly in fight scenes. We had adult writers writing for adults, now we have Gen Z writing for Scooby Doo disguised as a superhero cartoon. On one scene a housewife with a glass shard did more damage then the superhero by using basic fighting tactic.
3. Blah, blah, blah. Too much talking without any purpose.
Season 2 is just bad, really really bad.