Reviews

The episode includes ridiculous fighting strategy like stepping in front of machine gun fire and predictable outcomes. Unworthy of Reacher or the previous episodes. He and his team are not supposed to be stupid. This was too close to what you would expect from a 5th season of a tired TV series.

I expect anyone living in NYC will wonder about the empty streets and how someone can drive across multiple blocks and boroughs to come help someone who is chased in a car. The chasing car passengers were shooting with guns that have infinite bullets at full automatic. No police reacted. No collateral damage in the city.

Too much for my suspension of disbelief.

I hope we can get back to what separates Reacher from the others, clever ruthless tactics and outsmarting the enemy. The trick with improvised suppressor was different at least.

Since the movie came out, I haven't heard much anything but good things about it. Therefore, I was surprised by how mediocre a movie it really is.

It is understandable that Holleywood could not present the historical events without serious simplifications. How else could the American public understand it. Blacks are fighting for their freedom with pure hearts. The only trouble maker is just angry at the world and settles down before the end. The whites are either assholes or enlightened moral men with iron back bone. This is so far from real life it makes me puke.

Let me first tell you what annoyed me about the movie: at the time when American government is more than ever using blatant violence to secure their own interests around the world, this kind of glorification of war and killing sickened me. If the American civil war really had been about values I might excuse it, but it was not. It was about cotton, molasses and grain. Southern states had it, northerners didn't. That's what the blacks were fighting for, not their freedom.

The men they were killing weren't their true enemies, for the most part. Just a bunch of other poor folks. There is no Glory in war. Just killing and dying with more or less bravery, but glory, no.

As normally in war movies, dieing was too clean. War is not clean. The bullet rarely seeks the heart. Slaying someone with a bayonet certainly is not clean and bloodless.

I am not squeamish. I like a good action movie, even a splatter once in a while, but they are not serious. Glory took itself much too seriously to be a mindless action movie.

The movie could have been so much more. There were elements for great drama in there, but the writing took all the short cuts available to it. Such pity.

Why did I then give it as much as 7/10? Because Glory is not a bad movie, just a disappointment.