Reviews

This movie has moved to the bottom of my list as the most worthless. The entire plot could be summed up in about 10 minutes, but it drags on forever. I didn't make it, I had to start skipping because it was just too painful to watch. Poor plot, screenplay that spends an immense amount of time showing people walking. Walking where? To the next pointless scene apparently. No likable main characters. Thankfully there was no soundtrack to speak off, that probably would have been fun like a funeral. And that ending! Wow! Sitting at the breakfast table with no resolution whatsoever. I swear this was really a French film converted to British but without the obligatory soulful staring between the characters. Jude Law made a deuce with this one.

First, I'm a big Adam Driver fan. Hard to imagine what he thought when he read the screenplay. So many plot holes! First, the premise: People on another planet, 65 million years ago, look just like Americans, on a planet identical to earth! And the same atmosphere. Same gravity. What are the chances?! And they speak English!! Here's another doozy - a T-Rex has me trapped in a cave. I know! Let's chip our way out the other side instead of waiting for the giant hungry reptile to go and eat any of the other bazillion big lizards running around the planet, apparently in that particular area! Uh oh, cave in. I guess I WILL go out the front door. And T-Rex conveniently flips the crashed rocket ship pointy side up, flamey side down, after it falls off a cliff. Thank God the rocket still works perfectly! And all 5 seconds before the meteorite that destroys the atmosphere! You get the picture . . .

The bad: typical plot - rogue agent discovers bad management and gets pursued. Unrealistic shoot 'em up scenes galore. Tiresome fight scenes where the protagonist fends off dozens if not hundreds of homicidal adversaries. Torture? Never necessary in a movie graphically. So the plot was bad. The good: slick dialogue, delivered by the superb Ryan Gosling. Gosling's screen presence is first rate and impressive. Ana De Armas delivers a great support performance and is of course beautiful. Billy Bob is great, naturally. So the dialogue of these three in the screen play carries the movie. Now the REALLY BAD: Chris Evans delivers a terrible performance. When are people gonna realize this guy cannot act. He brings the movie down to almost unwatchable.

This series started well. It was fresh and creative. Then after E6 it went down hill. Very far. The writing went to crap. Fantasy became soap opera. Who has a plot line about a convention for serial killers, where they discuss the merits? Ocular mutilation? Child abuse?! Fantastic lead protagonist. But he gets relegated In the second half. Some of the other characters are ok. The portrayal of Lucifer, presumably a major character, makes no sense. There is some truly gory violence that is implied if not shown, yet Lucifer is a cream puff that doesn't provoke any dread or malice whatsoever. I'm hoping that season 2 returns back to the original formula. Get the writers back.

Not a bad 007 film, fairly typical although it had some plot holes, and not enough clever dialogue. The EXCEPT is YOU CAN'T KILL BOND. Only morons in the corporate movie business would come up with this, probably to transition to some "PC" version of 007. Franchise over. Goodbye Dr. No.

This movie actually started well and had potential. The early sense of anxiety and dread quickly deteriorated to gratuitous violence and unrealistic plot. Also, Crowe who usually does a competent if not stellar job, turned into a cartoonish character. His violent ending was silly. The strong violence was a real turnoff.