Reviews

So, you really have to be a super fan to get anything from this film...

It's good, but super fans have rated this film so high, real film fans ratings have been inflated! For me 7 from 10..... and here's why.

It's cringworthy in points, take the spiderman bromance for example.

Pointless in others. Take the ending, everyone is going to forget who spiderman is? Early in the film, spiderman was nowhere near the people spiderman was trying to get Dr Strange to add to the remember list - hense the idea of the film. But at the end, spiderman was standing next to the people he cared most about (that was left). Surely all he had to do was stand in front of them in his half spiderman suit....? Think they would have known who he was straight away... And that news caster, "I hate everything about spiderman" character... was just a waste of space.. I know this character is a big thing to spiderman fans... sorry. But it was soooo annoying, to the point of distraction. Utterly pointless.

This film missed a lot of Marvel humour. The action was there... the plotline, partially. Adding a lot of wasted, space filling sequences.

But then after all this, I suppose, who am I to cast a view, I'm not a fan.

I can't help love this series. But this finale was utterly ruined by the way it was turned in to something incredibly fake, with the use of an animatronic baby. It was lifelike..... but didn't move. Lost all the emotion from any scene involving the child, and turned this eppisode in to a cheap primary school, nativity scene. The bit where everyone crowds around the new born.

A doll, swathed in rags.....

This series is better than this.

Honestly, the only thing I can say about this episode is WHY?

Snatchet of moments in lead characters lives. Newyork / London scenes (seriously why film in London, when they leave bits of New York in the shots - clearly not London) Bits of lives that just seem to be in the past.... but are now.

No cliff hanger.

It was just lie they were closing the show off.

Very disappointed.

Not the finest hour for this episode. No real story, rushed and poorly executed. Everything this series hasn't been so far.

It felt that it moved so quickly, it was over before it covered parts that were used to character build... I mean, what was it about the milk? Crazy woman bathing in it.... which turned out wasn't crazy and made to appear perfectly sane.... really?

Hope this was just a blip....

Simply put, the events of this episode are so far off reality, it made it hard to watch.

However, once the story started to unfold, the more it became a little more believable, despite the inaccuracies surrounding the ability to hack moving vehicles. All I had to do was use my imagination.

I love a good crossover and this could have been another. Instead, we have fire doing pd's job and Bowden telling a load of bangers there is a gas leak and makes them run.... like I'm fairly sure they would have told Bowden where to go.

Then for the girl who was rescued telling Stella that PD sorted the issue out... the department she said that she didn't want involved! Talk about a 360 turn.

Rest was OK.... but could Casey actually sort the love affair out for the love of god.... hmm.

Not sure what to say. Usually, this series is quite true to life. Researchers do their stuff and write the stories accordingly. This time, we have a severe accident that everyone stops to watch, with Grey and the chief waiting for a guy die without even attempting to help, except call for the guys wife. The Xray technician arrives to say goodbye to her other half, then we find him still hanging there alive. Felt like nothing was going on. Even the fire brigade, who were called to retrieve the guys stuck in the ambulance, just gently tapped wooden pegs under the upturned vehicle, then stood to watch. No real feel to this at all.....

Not the best episode, but still a good story.

However, if this was the first episode, I wouldn't watch any further.

A film that brings the feature title in to the 21st century. Rather than it being the human who goes invisible, it is a suit that makes the purfect disguise.

However, though the original idea was reinvented with a technical twist, the writing of the story was left lagging in its wake.

I feel there are more holes in this story than there is plot, which starts from the very beginning where Cecilia runs for her life with no explanation.

Whilst you can excuse the introduction as a director allowing your imagination to fill in the gaps, there was no back story of the characters for you to engage in. This continued throughout the next for scenes as the story unfolded new characters to the fold.

Whilst the film leaves you to consider the girl is a little unhinged, the almost poltergeist endeavours begin which is where the totally unbelievable events start.

Example.... Cecilia sits down with another girl, the daughter of the cop she is staying with. The other girl gets slapped in the face, which is suggested Cecilia did. Yet the girl was clearly sitting in front of her, sees she made no move.... yet blamed her by not saying anything to her dad.....

She didnt question the fact she was hit by an invisible force. She didnt acknowledge Cecilia didnt touch her. It went undiscussed. The daughter may have been in shock, but really....?

After this she drives all the way to the house where the story started. This is some miles away over the Golden Gate bridge.

She does to the suit "which is hanging up'. Takes it, and proceeds to hide it whilst the invisible man has managed to follow her, undetected, to the house. Did he fly? How did he know she was going there? And why, when she was being chased around the house, did she hide the suit..... surely you would put it on to leave the building undetected? Further more, nobody believed she was telling the truth about the invisible man.... So she said in the following scenes she had something to show them.... another hole.... why didnt she just take it to show them? Bonkers.....

Then there was the restaurant scene. A huge knife which cant be hidden inside a skin tight suit that can only be taken off from the back, appears in front of Cecilia and her sister which proceeds to slice the sisters throat and placed in to Cecilia's hand. Like Cecilia would have sat there and watched it happen.... let alone have the knife placed in to her hand.

I could go on..... but I wont. The film has sapped my energy.

If you see this on your TV planner, please choose a different channel and save 2 hours of your life.

The acting and research needs to improve with this series...

Personally, I find Lincoln is like a robot. No real sound and emotion to his voice. Where all the others seem to provide depth, which adds to the story telling.

Then in this episode, a girl is kidnapped and has been gone for 5 years. Then when she is found in a dark and dingy setting, she immediately runs and hugs her rescuers and immediately embraces her parents.

I'm no psychologist, but I know the emotional distress caused from that kind of absence and being locked in solitary for that long, would leave her in such a state she wouldn't be able to recognise her family. Let alone have any impulse to run and hug them, along with her rescuers that she doesn't even know.

This series has a long way to go to get me hooked.

I held more hope that this would produce something a whole world better than this, but it fell short of being even classed as mediocre. Bautista did a reasonable job with the script that was written. Some of the ideas were good. It just was put together so poorly you could only laugh at some of the more serious parts. For example when the bomb goes off and destroys everything in the area, the digital screen is still working with cracks in it, despite the power being lost in the stadium. And cracks. You dont get cracks in screens like that. Further more, a European cup final is being played throughout everything going off and doesnt stop. People care more about phones losing signal and complain to the steward whilst the game is playing? Masses of people gathered by the bars and out of thier seats while the game is being played, being shot at in some cases, then still no panic in the stadium until the 90th minute. Who says as a leading police commander "call the S.A.S." as an order to his force. The list of ridiculous senarios can go on and on, but I guess the director thought that poetic licence would go unnoticed. Terrible film. 4 stars is generous. 1 star for Bautista. 1 star for the story. 1 star for it featuring West Ham (my team) and 1 star for a lasting memory of Upton Park, albeit a sad one as the film could have been much much better.