Reviews

Combine Crime Drama with the backdrop of Wales underpinned by well scripted plots and cleverly woven characters. What's not to like about this potential? Quite a lot unfortunately. The linearity of the stories seem to suffer from a jumble after they apparently have been dropped. The non contribution of Chief Supt Brian Prosser is irrelevant and the ridiculous conflict with DCI Tom Mathias adds nothing and subtracts plenty. VERY disappointing.

My wife and I love British drama, British crime genre and Nicola Walker, given good material and direction, is watchable (but never great). So we were really looking forward to this.

After 20 minutes or so of watching the first episode, we both turned to each other and asked "are you enjoying this?". Both of us said No.

The whole approach and content is scant and unengaging and the "talk to the camera" just doesn't work.

The script/storyline has the depth of an almost dehydrated puddle. Case in point - Di Strandhed (was that nomenclature intended?) turns to her petulant daughter when both are on a Police boat and refers to wind and spray - but they are both inside a closed hard cabin!

There were a couple of funny moments and a couple of moments that could have been funny but were wasted.

OMG, I've been a FH / Dune universe fan forever, so was really looking forward to a 2000 update on the cheesy but watchable 1984 version. My wife and I ended up laughing at how bad the CGI and Visual Defects were. These made it impossible to move onto to story line veracity. How even the SciFi Channel could be proud let alone comfortable releasing the production of this staggers us.

Ok, first up, I'll declare that my love for this movie is underpinned by the fact that I live in Mount Barker, Western Australia where RAMS - The Movie was filmed. It portrays Mount Barker well and the film crew were absolutely fantastic in engaging Mount Barker and the community!

With that deservedly said, I absolutely loved this movie. It has everything, pathos, bucket loads of humour (with some laugh out loud moments), superb directing, production and acting and, of course, Mount Barker's (Shire of Plantagenet) wonderful unspoiled and natural scene scapes.

I've never given ten stars, and will probably not again, but RAMS - The Movie deserves every one of those stars - easily!

Definitely recommended!

Ok, the Dystopian thing has been done to death (no pun intended). But I found this a creative and interesting spin with awesome CGI and some very good acting. Very entertaining, especially if you are exhausted from catching thousands of chooks.

As others have said, the scenery and interaction with that is very good indeed. I envy those that have seen it on a huge screen - that would be awesome!

I really looked forward to this series. The underlying story line is good and there are some wonderful twists and great acting. BUT - I'm fed up wading through the excruciating pain of totally over the top teenage pitched angst. If there was an Oscar for hanging on to grudges the world would run out of bl**dy gold and the presentation would take years. It's only a matter of seconds before everyone has a beef with everyone..AGAIN...and AGAIN . Such a waste of wonderful scenery and sets...

Ok, the good stuff - Finally a Star Trek series after so many years. Great sets, wonderful effects courtesy of modern CGI, some great tech and clever plot development - in Season 1. Onto Season 2 and the disappointing / bad stuff. First off, loose the obsession with Michael Burnham. Basically a single character, soapy drenched tragic waste of what Discovery could be. Next, instill some consistency (canon). Discovery has area of more tech that NG but is a century earlier. With a bigger budget and capacity for production, Discovery could (and needs) to be so much more given the subject matter. I get it that there needs to an element of human relationship dynamics but let's loose the soap avalanche available in a million rubbish series elsewhere. Hopefully those responsible for the forthcoming series 3 will take this and other constructive criticisms on board.

There's a suite of abysmal actors - Stalone, Segal who set a bottom benchmark for acting, then there's Vin Diesel who took, and takes bad acting (actually no acting at all) to a (bottom) level that is all his own and breathtakingly bad. But even prepared with this knowledge, TCoR was excrement personified. Netflix will be happy, the aggregate of the seconds my wife and I watched this will be enough to add us to their skewed popularity stats. Neither of us could make head nor tail out of this jumble. Judy Dench sold her soul appearing in this.

Watched part of this yesterday - and found it impossible to continue. I actually think it would be impossible to cover this material any worse. Totally amazed that this was funded. Every cliche and p*ssing contest by a bunch of brainless GI Joes. To stand any chance of enjoying and respecting this me thinks a Lobotomy and Pain Killers are a Compulsory Prerequisite.

Let me say that I'm a great fan of Barry Humphries but this is NOT one of his great (or even good) performances. The visuals, as to be expected were good. But who wrote the narrative and there were times when Barry's narrative intonation is painful. My wife (who was in an adjoining room) thought I was watching a kids show. So I wasn't alone in regards to the narrative. It really spoils what otherwise would have been a good viewing experience.

My wife and I loved this show and we'd gladly gave it 10 stars and couldn't wait for the next episode. Casting was superb, especially for the main characters with so much depth and some hilarious moments. Then they brought in Ardal O'Hanlon. What were they thinking!? Definitely the worst possible casting and absolutely killed it for us and dropped that rating down to absolute zero and lost us completely.