Reviews

4/10.

8/10 for the acts and touching moments.

Minimum marks for the video editing, and more points off every time the video editor cuts away from the talent to show audience, judges or host reaction shots. If you really want to add these valueless extras, they could be screen inserts instead of cutaways. More points off for every fractional-second cut. The show's name is "Talent", after all, so give us a chance to focus on the talent!

Maybe try thinking about why this show exists, and what the audience is looking for, and then make a few editorial changes. I keep coming back to see the talent; then I keep being disappointed every time the producers prove that they hate their audience.

None of the behaviours made much sense. Klingons ran around like Cub Scouts. Marksman Lt. Reed shot like a Stormtrooper. The entire meddling Enterprise crew could have started a war that could have resulted in the obliteration of Earth. This was a bad script. Avoid this ep.

The new writer (this is her first Murdoch episode) turned the police and a few other characters into dark, stupid and unprofessional guessers who jump to conclusions. That would have been acceptable if this was Season One Episode One, but we have been treated to many seasons of quasi competent police. So the change is unwelcome. I hope the actors, directors and producers will ride herd a bit harder on rookie writers.

It was an interesting concept to have a show called "Nurses" written by aliens who had never been to Earth, from some planet that doesn't have hospitals. But this show managed to find such writers, and the results are absolutely hilarious (unless you were hoping for an accurate hispital drama).

Looking forward to further episodes. But this time I'll invite in friends from the medical profession and we'll play a drinking game. Every time someone shouts "Noooooo!!!!" or "That would never happen!", they have to take a sip of their drink. Real nurses will be hammered by the first ad.

Watch this film if you feel like suspending all disbelief and are willing to put up with cringeworthy dialog, a cheesy script and pointlessly bland characters.

I don't expect scientific accuracy in a film like this, but Guardians of the Galaxy looked like a documentary in comparison. Many of the improbable events that happened were about as likely as winning the lottery jackpot two weeks in a row.

I can't see even people who love the genre rating this any higher than "meh". If you want to enjoy a film where the antagonist has the smarts of a goldfish, go watch "The Shallows", improbable as that story was, before you watch The Meg.

3 stars instead of 1/10 due to some skillful offshore technical stuff and pretty believable green screen.

Really enjoyed Season One; two antiheroes behaving like True Detectives. Excellent acting, excellent production work.

Season Two was entertaining, imo. I think back often to several of the most interesting scenes. It was arty and most of the time, it worked.

Season Three's story was a bit less strong. The main problems I had with it were that it moved too slowly, felt the disjointed flashbacks subtracted from the overall product, and that it was left to a writer to solve the case, not the detectives. But what made Season Three most frustrating for me was that (a) Big Tobacco had managed to insert unnecessary smoking scenes hundreds of times, and (b) Mahersjala Ali decided to play his character as a mumbler. Even with rewind/replay, I didn't catch many of his lines. Presumably the writers had written those lines for a reason. We shouldn't need to rewind too often per episode.

If that's your thing, you may love this film. The technique started to annoy me about 5 minutes in, and by 10 minutes in, I had to stop watching this. Wobble cam truly takes the viewers' focus away from the acting and the writing.

Oh wait, that title was already taken.

Congrats to the crew for coming up with a brilliant way to minimize costs: have the main character never move.

Superb writing and ensemble acting, but the real star is the director who made the whole film seem like a fast-moving choreographed dance. Kudos especially to inserting hundreds of details in the background that add to the overall skewering of despot governments. This is a film that will reward people who view it a second time: we'll spot build-up, more background work and double entendres.

Unfortunately, that's not me, so I got 15 minutes in and called it quits.

Directors who over-employ this technique of wobble-cam must really hate their writers, actors and audiences.

Imagine its counterparts "Latino Card Revoked", "Arab Card Revoked", "White Card Revoked" and "Gay Card Revoked". Would any of them be considered offensive? Probably, because "Black Card Revoked" already is. and the revulsion would show in the mirror images as well.

A few years ago, some Hollywood producers got together and decided to remake the famous 1990s TV series. "But let's not make it so cerebral and nuanced as the TV show", was the general consensus around the table. "Oh no, of course not. No 2017 audience has the brains to deal with the complexities we presented 20 years ago. We'll have to dumb it down. We'll have to dumb it down A LOT".

And so they did. Gone are our worries that intellectual challenges like those presented by Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in the 90s will go over our heads in the movie remake. Nothing is intended to go over our heads in this one. Instead, we're pounded repeatedly in the gut by scenes and locker room talk about body parts, body fluids, and involuntary muscle reactions.

All involved deserve a big vote of thanks.

Hearkening back to Jeremy Irons' subtle portrayal of twins in "Dead Ringers" in 1988, this W.A.T. episode highlights Tony Goldwyn as a set of twins. He does a great job portraying two different characters. Even at the end, we still don't know for sure which twin did what. A million twists could have been written in from the point where the episode ends. Glad to see they brought Goldwyn and his characters back for another episode the next season.

The writers do a good job with tense banter between LaPaglia's character and each of the twins.

Sure, there were some unrealistic points. Like how so many similar murders remain uninvestigated, and why the brothers don't just say to the investigators at some point "It's getting late, I'm going home". But what struck me most was how the series is called "Without a Trace", but the first clue they mention is a trace -- the missing woman's blood on the floor, followed by the discovery of her body + lots of other clues. Maybe the show should be called "Plenty of Traces".

Loved it. Yes it dragged in places. Yes, it's not the kind of character Harrison Ford knows what to do with. Yes, it owed a lot to Hitchcock. But if it can put me on the edge of my seat with chills & shivers, I say "well done".

Michelle Pfeiffer's performance carried the film, direction had its good moments as well. I have to question the inclusion of a lot of extraneous plot fragments that seemed to go nowhere. The mysterious neighbours, all scenes with the dog, wife's music career, everything about their daughter, Jody's whole life -- all simply begged the question "I wonder why they're including this?" Presumably, this movie is derived from a book, where the author has the freedom to explore a lot of side roads. But all these things could have easily been omitted and the 130 minutes cut down to 100, with no loss of thrill & mystery.

The special effects were just right in this film. Well done and not too many or too overwhelming.

7.5 / 10. Since I can only vote once with an integer: 7, and I hope the next viewer gives it an 8.