Reviews

Just watched this on Netflix, and it was kinda alright for a fantasy movie. The set looked nice and the acting was decent. The plot was pretty predictable even if you don't know the 47 ronin story already. The plot where the 'half breed' Keanu Reeves, does everything and anything to rescue the girl so he can then kill himself with the other 'samurai' in a mass suicide, was pretty stupid and kinda ruined what would have been a quite nice good guy wins happy ending. Anyway, if your bored it's worth a watch, but I would not go out of your way to see it.

I started watching this show when it first aired. I liked season one, but did not think it was brilliant, season two got better as you started to really get a feel for the characters and plot, then season 3 was really good, I could not wait for the next episodes, the story was really starting to unravel and get interesting. Then the show got cancelled and the last episode was left on a cliffhanger. Which is complete BS ! Have I just wasted all those hours or will netflix/amazon ... give this brilliant series the final season it and the viewers deserves ? I hope I get to see a proper ending for this series.

This sounded like it would be a good film, but honestly the over the top bad cop acting was stupid. No one believes that any cop could go on like this in front of everyone and still be a cop. The heist plot sounded like it should be a decent film, but the absurdly to the point of being funny, over the top bad cop act by Butler ends up making this film more a joke than decent heist movie. The movie had more plot holes than my local high street after a long dark cold winter, I mean seriously, is it this easy to get in and out of the federal reserve bank ? The movie is not bad if you take your brain, eyes and ears out before you begin the movie. Don't waste two hours of your life, like I did !

Just watched the first episode and I am impressed. Really like the first episode, netflix have spent a lot of money and this and it really shows with great cgi, great script, great acting with likeable characters and an all round excellent sci-fi that ALL the family can watch. Netflix have not disappointed and I can't wait to watch the rest of the episodes. Ignore the bad reviews, the first episode was an excellent example of how to write good family sci-fi, the great special effects are a bonus.

UPDATE**** So I completed the whole season, and my opinion did not change. It is still the best family sci-fi on tv. The close family story lines remind me of TerraNovan, which I also loved. What makes this show is the robot in my opinion. I actually felt gutted when Will made it walk of a cliff and I was happy when it was brought back to life. Hopefully there is a second season (fingers crossed) and the robot will be brought back (again) and we will find out more about it and it's home world. Anyway, as I said, really good sci-fi, just wish they had longer seasons.

I thought the first two seasons were decent, though the plots are OTT and the main characters were starting to get pretty irritating by the end of season two. Into season three and it's becoming quite boring and really stupid no more so than the quote "how can we live on 320 million dollars ?" The episodes seem to drag with nothing much really happening except the rich guy popping up every 5 minutes or so telling you how rich he is, while trying to manipulate someone. They should have finished the show at season two.

Well I took the family to watch this film today, and I was expecting it to be more for my 5 year old son than me. However, I have to say I really enjoyed the movie, I thought the story was well told and made you think about just how cruel some humans treat animals, like bulls. This was also a good opportunity to explain to my son why being cruel to animals is wrong and unacceptable in a way in which he could relate to what he had seen in the film. In addition to the main message of the film, the movie had lots of funny scenes and a nice ending to boot. All in all I am glad I took the family to see it.

Well what can I say except, the plot of zoo is ridiculous, but for some reason I find it enjoyable to watch. The plot is silly with more holes than swiss cheese. However, the CGI is decent, the acting is not too bad, the action is decent also and you get too see almost every city on Earth, as they seem to do a LOT of traveling. It's definitely worth a watch, I mean it's not going to win any awards (I think) but it will keep you entertained, just as long as you don't take it too seriously.

Well I just watched this on Netflix and I have to say I was surprised at how good it was and how much I enjoyed watching it. The acting is good, the CGI was decent, the plot was good and the characters were likable (the good guys anyway). It's just a shame that it was dropped after one season, because it would have been interesting to see how the second season developed. When you look at some of the rubbish that gets made now for multiple seasons it does make you wonder how decent series like this get dropped. If it was money, then I am sure that a similar production could have been made with a smaller budget. Anyway, I hope someone picks this concept up again in the future and gives the story a finish it deserves, either as a TV movie or another season.

Well I finished watching the Battle star Galactica reboot for the second time last week, which is an excellent well written and acted sci-fi series; so I thought I would try this new series of Star trek, which I now know is not an excellent well written and acted sci-fi series. In fact I feel like I wasted 2 hours of my life.

I like star trek, I loved Enterprise and had high expectations for Discovery, but it failed on so many levels. First of all the character Michael Burnham is irritating and completely unbelievable. I mean in the first episode she had deadly exposure to radiation and within 10 minutes she was rescued from space, walked out from her treatment for an urgent talk with the captain and then went back to continue her treatment and she was cured 5 minutes later looking 100% fit and healthy. Then in episode two she was exposed to the vacuum of space and did not have one ill effect from it at all, again 100% fit and healthy. Not to mention her mutiny and somehow being able to communicate vast distances through space via her mind. Lastly, her attitude and personality is really irritating, and she is not a very likable character.

Some other gripes include the Klingon's, they looked like they got their costumes and props from Stargate. And the light beacon to alert all other Klingon's, WT? last I checked the speed of light is constant and would take thousands of light years to reach every part of a galaxy. Apparently not in Startrek Discovery, where all the Klingon's appeared about 5 minutes after the light started shining. The sound in space, also irritates me, I can only think of Firefly, where they actually got the science of this right in a sci-fi series.

Also a minor point but Discovery is supposed to be set before Kirk, yet the technology is far superior than anything Kirk had. I could go on about the acting but I stopped caring after the first episode when the character Michael Burnham just made me say WT? on too many occasions. That stupid 'I'm so serious look' that she permanently has is also very irritating.

It may get better, but I doubt I will stick around to watch it after the mess first two episodes were.

I have to say I've been watching the primary/election coverage since last summer and the show gets worse and worse. Joe and Mika constantly get basic facts wrong, they really should hire decent researchers as the ones they have now are terrible. Also the majority of their analysts and news come from two publications and these are the Washington Post and the New York Times. Both publications are in my opinion biased and not objective in their journalism, therefore, using these as your main contributors seriously lessons your credibility as a news show. Lastly they have a complete inability to hold the people they interview to account with tough questions, in fact they clearly love Donald Trump and don't really hide this admiration.

There are better shows that are more factual and accurate in their analysis, especially the young turks on youtube which I find much more truthful and accurate than Morning Joe or any other main stream media show I have seen in recent years.

Kingsman the secret service was a pretty standard action/spy movie that had way to much violence and gore. The plot was predictable and absurd to say the least and seemed to be mostly parodying other spy films, but with an excess of pointless violence, particularly the church scene, which emphasized how the violence was used to try and make up for the terrible plot. The use of excessive violence starts with the opening 10 minutes showing a man being sliced in half and not to mention the umpteen head shots shown in slow motion throughout the film. It all became really tiresome and made me want to stop watching to be honest. All in all a movie that will be remembered for pointless violence and nothing more. Hence, the reason it gets a 1 from me.

SG1 upto season 8 was excellent, then it started to get boring and one dimensional apart from a few good episodes. SG Atlantis, I watched the first episode, seen how terrible and unoriginal the wraith were and got so bored I stopped watching and instead went straight to SGU. So I have seen the first 15 episodes and have to say it's really slow and boring, but not as bad as SG Atlantis. I can see it is trying to copy Battle Star Galactica, but it falls way short. The characters are also really irritating, so much so that I don't really care if they make it home or not. The worst culprits being Everett Young, Ronald Greer, and Eli. The plots are also stupid, I mean the supposed Genius Eli, seems to be able to master multiple alien technologies within a matter of weeks; in one case 15 minutes to learn and read a new alien language and computer interface. There are limits to what the viewer is willing to accept as possible, and that is a massive fail in my book.

All in all not up to scratch when compared to SG1.