Reviews

Overflowing with horror tropes... predictable ones at that. I felt like I was watching a 1980's film student's first effort that was somehow stolen from a cardboard box in the back of his/her grandma's house where it had been hidden out of shame for at least two decades. On top of a largely unexplained and inexplicable underlying mystery which seemed like a drunken mixture of Men in Black mixed with Pet Cemetary....

Cap this all off with a completely confusing and open ended "finish" about as creative as a nine year old dould imagine on a bad day. Ninety minutes of your life you'll never get back. Play a board game or clip your nails instead.

I thoroughly enjoyed JW1 and JW2. JW3 a bit less so. JW4 lacks even the pretense of a story. While the combat choreography is excellent as usual, I need trace of a story line to enjoy a film. This doesn't even bother to create a whiff. I've been in law enforcement for 32 years (local and federal) and can honestly appreciate a film that demonstrates both extreme competence in firearm handling and martial arts, but that only gets you so far in entertainment. You need at least the trace of a story to lasso the general public (including me). This film completely lacks it. If you're drunk and just want to see dumb violence with no tie to the characters, this is a movie for you. Hard pass for me.

My wife and I recently watched this. The atmosphere was great in and very ominous in the beginning, then the whole things falls apart pretty quickly. Here's a summary:

(SPOILERS BELOW)

John is a young adolescent who is either fairly deep on the Autism scale or is at the beginning of developing adolescent schizophrenia. He has extreme difficulty communicating and relating to his family.

One day, John decides to drug his entire family and then drop/lower them (no idea how since he weights about 90 lbs) down a steep hole left from construction on a neighboring property. His family has no way to climb out.

John proceeds to pull cash from an ATM, play video games, drive his parents car, and invite a friend over for the next week or so. John lowers food to his family irregularly and lies to people about his family having left town for a family emergency.

After a while, John decides he's bored with all this and suddenly lowers a ladder down so his family can climb out. No one beats John's ---, and they literally resume normal life as if this never happened.

At the conclusion of the movie it is revealed in an incredibly obscure, hazy, and confusing way that this whole incident is actually a fictional story told by a mother to her daughter (whom she is about to abandon at home with some cash). This is done in such a confusing manner that we actually had to resort to the Internet to confirm this was actually what was happening.

Seriously... the most bizarre and disjointed film I can remember ever watching.

Not awful, not good. While I love Alfred Molina, he couldn't save this all by himself. I felt like this was Monk meets Dexter. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be comedic or suspenseful, so never really fully achieves either very well. In the eight episodes, four crimes are resolved (one every two episodes) and one larger overarching crime takes the whole season. Neither my wife felt engaged in any of the two episode crimes (you never bond with any of the victims since they die almost immediately after their screen entrances) and the season stretches crime advances methodically and mechanically. The towns characters, while sometimes amusing, were largely two dimensional caricatures with no substance to them. I identified strongest with the duck. In the end, mediocre television.

Loved Jordan Peele's recent film "NOPE" and sought this out after watching that quite good and novel film. Admittedly, I turned this off after about forty minutes, but I saw nothing there to encourage investing more time. Predictably tropes and characters were everywhere and I saw no sign of that changing later in Candyman. If you were looking for a slasher ala Freddy Kreuger, I could even recommend this for that. It was just dull, simple, and lacking suspense for the most part. I'd give this a hard pass and go watch "NOPE" by the same writer for a film with real suspense, mystery, and some good jumps and unique humor.

Reminiscent of the fantastic HBO seeies "Barry" but IMO even a couple levels above it. My wife and I were both crushed when Dorman's filming schedule for "For All Mankind" prevented a third and final season. Simply magnificent writing, humor, characters, and acting. I can't cheerlead for this series more than I am now. Just stellar.

I have enjoyed most MCU films, accepting their strong and weak points, but generally enjoying them. This one just doesn't get there - with too little story and relying too much on CGI effects. Although not an MCU film, the extremely weak sequel to Wonder Woman, WW1984, immediately came to mind.

And they didn't. It was actually better and far less formula than I expected. They did a great job with this. Had fear at one point they were going to kill off a main character and that didn't come to pass. Awesome cinematography. Nuff said.

The only Batman franchise movie I would rate lower than this would be Batman Forever. No tension till the last 30 mins of the film. No investment in character development. This could have been so much more. Cinematography couldn't save it.

Pretty impressive CGI could have made this a good movie. The only things holding it back were bad writing, even more horrid acting, and even more horrendous predictability.

It's not the Mandelorian. Three episodes in and neither my wife or I are particularly engaged. We were completely hooked 5 minutes into episode one of the Mandelorian.

It's not a disaster but full of predictability, SW cliches, and, well it's just not what it should be. Disappointing.

Overflowing with sarcasm, this film deservedly targets the Right, Trumpism, the Left, those who live with their heads buried in Social Media, Conspiracy Theorists, and all other buffoons with equality. The message of this film? Wake up and live a real life. Outstanding.

Regurgitation. Lame. Complete lack of new story. First half of film spent completely recapping the prior three films (which I loved by the way). Sure, some decent CGI but if that is what makes a blockbuster, I'll download something on my XBox. Stick a fork in the Matrix franchise because it is well-done and finished. RIP...

To Slater, Beene, and Rhames, all I can say is that a lot of drinking must have been involved. Don't waste neurons on this.

I'm 54 and have never had any problem enjoying adolescent fiction (Hunger Games, 4th Wave, etc), and have always had an affinity for the post-apocalyptic genre.

I found the first three episodes of this perfectly enjoyable. It has a nice atmosphere to it as along as you can use an ample amount of plausible deniability (power working for most people ten years after the collapse of society). However, in episode four it suddenly took a turn towards an improbable melange of "Lord of the Flies" meets "Revenge of the Ewoks." The episode was so silly and ridiculous I was dangerously close to switching it off and not watching the remainder of the season. It "sort-of" managed to get back on track after that episode but retained a cartoonish bent going forward that I didn't get from the first three episodes.

Finally, it really started to feel like the writers didn't know who they wanted be their target audience for this. At some points it is VERY obviously aimed for the 8-15 yoa audience, however, five minutes later a villain will be vigorously beaten to death with a blunt object or a main character will be shot. One scene had couples being burned alive in their home. I have no problem with violence but you can't easily mix that with content geared towards pre-adolescents. It just felt like they wanted to appeal to everyone but that's really tough to do and they just didn't manage it well.

"Elite group of soldiers" who don't even have optics on their weapons and move about as tactically as a bunch of 5th graders playing Army.

Stage props you could make yourself in shop class with a little paper-mache. Plot sucks, cinematography sucks, acting sucks.... It all just.... sucks... I lost countless brain cells watching this.

Where do I start? A lukewarm story, excessive use of CGI just for the use of CGI, very average cinematography, and a script even four normally entertaining actors couldn't save. Even the music score was somehow diluted from the original! A very disappointing sequel to the really good original.

I think most reasonably intelligent people realize that some of the most sadistic, unempathetic, sociopathic criminals in our midst come from awful backgrounds, dysfunctional families, abuse, and trauma. The credibility of this program's assertions quickly ends there.

The program proceeds to document two academic psychotherapists being led around by the nose by some of the most manipulative personalities known, psychopathic sexual sadists and murderers. Murders who repeatedly and conveniently evidence, for the first time, multiple personality disorders, when interviewed by these two. Performances which are encouraged and almost welcomed with glee. If you want to watch something that will strip you of any faith you might have in defense "experts," watch this. This is the definition of confirmation bias in quasi-science.

This film is not your standard post apocalyptic movie. It starts off slow and thoughtful. The movie is not action but focuses on the psychology between the two main characters and their coming to cope with each other. Dinklage is, as usual, great. The acting and cinematography were good and I was headed towards an 8/10. Suddenly, the movie takes a sudden left turn for the last 10 percent of the movie and drives completely off the map. It was just nonsensical. I don't know if this was a misguided attempt to appeal to the more traditional post apocalyptic crowd or what, but it was a severe miscalculation and really spoiled the movie. Dropped from an 8 to a 6.