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Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Childish and ridiculous
First of all, this is a scifi, not an action thriller, and it's not a good one.
The soldiers aren't believable, any rook with basic training can see that they're handling themselves poorly at best, with regards to handling weapons, tacticts, communication and more.
And most annoying of all is that the audience is being treated as idiots, by having chinese people speak english to one another, which makes NO sense and ruins what little immersion there is, making ou have to "re-set" when the patronizing whitewash finally ends.
If you manage to get past that, there's decent hand to hand fight scenes, but apart from that, most of the action is pure scifi, again, ruining immersion.
I like most of Stallone's movies including the prequel to this shlock, and Batista has become one of my favorite actors,and I DID enjoy the scenes with the two together, but that doesn't rescue this accident of a movie, because the plot is all over the place, the cinematography is bad and so is the editing, and did I mention CHINESE PEOPLE SPEAKING ELNGLISH TO EACH OTHER..?
It gets a 2 for the few good scenes, I was tempted to give a 1..
Domain (2016)
A long line of clichè characters constantly arguing.
Completely unoriginal characters who of course do nothing but argue and spout exposition.
Trapped in self sustaining bunkers with video communication, but they have no way to turn it off?
Forced live feed with people you hate, sounds like nothing but an arena for constant arguing with the most stereotypical characters I have come across since the 80's.
And the whole "trapped in a box together with people you don't get along with" idea was overused 10 years ago.
Barely made it to 15 minutes of this film, and the characters made me want to end mankind.
I do not have or wish to have an opinion of this overused tripe after seeing the whole thing, because I would probably finish myself before the film.
If you like things like Big Brother, Paradise Hotel and Days of Our lives, wrapped in a doomsday scenario SciFi theme, maybe this will do something for you.
What it did for me was completely kill my SciFi mood for today, and I'm going to YouTube to watch some funny cats because I'm angry and depressed now.
The 2 star rating is exclusively because the actors themselves seem good enough, and I didn't have an aneurism..
The Initiation of Sarah (2006)
One of the worst
Where do I begin?
The music is probably the worst part throughout the movie although it ends with a good song, one that doesn't fit the theme of the movie at ALL, not even the most forgiving listener could not be turned off by the awful garageband wannabe tripe used here, and when it first started, I wanted to stop watching immediately, but to my persisting regret I continued in hope of improvement down the line.
My mistake.
The acting, well, I do like both Summer Glau and think Mika Boorem is good, the material they had to work with is nothing short of a tween girl-party turned bad with clichè and predictable beginnings and ends.
Fairchild is great in my opinion, but she has just about 5 minutes of screentime.
The entire storyline is frankly PATHETIC, how this even got to be shown on TV MUST be entirely because it has some stars in it like Tilly, Fairchild, and Glau (whom many 14 year old boys 100% will give this movie an undeserved good rating for).
It's so simplistic and goofy, there are barely any tense moments until the movie is basically over, which I guess that was supposed to be some big finish, but by the time the end came I already felt like my soul was gone.
Who ever called this "horror" or "thriller" must have been sniffing asbestos and lighterfluid! This is a COMEDY!
This is a boring high school drama set at a college campus, that has the classic frat vs frat storyline with a barely existing plot, no excitement, and an unsatisfying finish.
ANY witch movie is better, unless you're one of those viewers who will watch anything as long as "so and so" is in it.
The horrendous soundtrack alone is reason enough to give this a 2, but Fairchild is pretty awesome although she's on screen for about 5 minutes total, and the main protagonists do well also, had it not been for that, I would definitely give this a 2.
I want my 90 minutes back!