Reviews

It's amazing what people see and hear in fact seeking videos. When watching this for the first time, I already had questions regarding his death mainly because I heard a female newscaster the next morning declare cause of death, pilot error. They hadn't even recovered the plane or bodies to draw that conclusion. MSM red flag.

This typifies a lot of the brush it under the rug narrative which our dark government does when they commit crimes. (See Robert Redford in 3 Days of the Condor).

This isn't about taking what is said and believe it all at once. It's about understanding there were other people involved and there were direct motives as to why he should be killed. If you fail to approach it this way then you're just either in denial or stupid. Seriously, its nothing personal, its just a fact, especially in the fact/truth gathering business. Talk to a detective if you are cynical, either way I don't care. What I cared about is understanding the real possibility as to why he died.

It doesn't take 24 hours to find a plane, that's what radar and black box tech is for. There was no reason to keep the remains of the plane or the bodies a secret from the public, but a forth body would appear a root cause if made public. The radar going straight down refutes the lost in the horizon, next morning narrative which I knew was a lie.

The weather was NOT a problem. SAVE!

People are willing to kill themselves in a plane, so stop there. Who was the instructor, the one which made them late for take off? Why was the gov't involved in the retrieval and why was it a retired air force official? If this doesn't make you curious, you live in denial and aren't interested in the truth. Some of us are, a lot of us are.

He was considering that open senate seat but didn't make it public. That would have been a house of cards move against the DNC and Hillary. MOTIVE. SAVE your response.

JFK Jr would have turned the DNC upside down and owned the party, a worthy motive for his removal. But those who do not look at history nor really interested in the truth will find this video simply a cartoon. If substance isn't your interest, then rose colored glasses are best for you obviously.

The biggest questions were never made public about the radio contact with Martha's Vineyard, the radar navigation of the plane going down, the retrieval and report after the fact. This was in fact all symptoms of a cover up.

When you need someone to blame, blame the dead guy. It works every time.

Now I know why.

After reading what others have commented about I have to agree with a lot of the comments. It got Stalloned.

Two I-Talians making a movie and the director actually wrote it as well. Big mistake. The first thing I noticed about the film was it had no story. The first half of the film was a montage of superficial love, infatuations, setting up Tony to say his funny line to make you like him for being a jerk, "I know I'm a jerk, but there's a gentlemen waiting to get out," or something to that effect. It was funny and does resonate, but this does not make a movie.

The first half goes on and on and on setting up very little. Okay, already its a love triangle with no love. Travolta walks around and Stallone follows him. That's pretty much the film. Did I get any messages? That seemed to be the meat of the plot. Oh, what plot.

This story was so shallow and seemed to be a commercial for more Bee Gees and to sell curious tickets, whipped together like a college film and with so much Italian flare in the early 80's culture, it just wasn't a story, it was a commercial for why you don't watch Stallone directed films.

It's not that he can't direct, but he can't direct if he writes the script. He always turns campy when he does that and uses his known cheap techniques to win the audience over.

The girls did their part but Stallone didn't do his for their roles or even a believable theme. What was the theme again? Oh, you can do it Tony! It seemed to be more focused on dance sequences which again does not make a movie.

The bearded director. My gawd, the lines.

There was a reason I waited decades to see this. Being older you just see things differently and you don't allow for cheap sequences to sell you as actual screen time. This was terrible, but yes, the dancing was their focus. But that does not make an entertaining movie.

I finally got around to watching this film as its premise is interesting but not alluring.

The problem I found with this story was not Jackson's directing or anything anyone is really talking about. The problem is you have all these elements of a story and you have to ask yourself after you review them, what exactly am I trying to convey to the audience?

The essential theme is all is not lost. But in film, an audience isn't interested in hope. An audience is interested in getting what they can't get from the real world; results. This is where I think this film fails subtly.

The safe being pushed is ridiculous. The girl happen to be watching it, silly. The police unable to find hay in a barn, stupid.

Audiences get tired of pushed storytelling. I'm not going for logic, I want to lead you here. It's awful and lazy.

If you want to tell a story of hope, don't focus on the killer. It's distracting and manipulative based on the intent of the story. In this case, the killer should have been touched by God, then taken away poetically, not through imagery which suggests retribution. It was lazy and boring and very unsatisfying.

The father was inept. Deciding to use a bat and then mysteriously finding these two characters in the same place only insults the audience as to how you are juxtaposing failure to retrieve down home justice.

Women write these kinds of stories but what they fail to adhere to is the essence of masculinity in the real world which they are portraying. Instead they choose fantasy to the point where the story has no logistical sense and a direct has to direct himself out of it or edit himself out of it.

The Lovely Bones should have been about the power of redemption. The man should have been punished creatively, not with force, but with torture of a different kind throughout the picture, subtle, yet effective. The terror of being found out would have been a good start, and that should have begun sooner.

What the audience could have received was why does he do it and allow the character to hear this answer, nonsensical in nature or not, she received her answer and now he must pay in whatever visual you choose.

But its her story not his. Her story is to find peace in something she can't control. To be whole again, and live in the way she was intended to live, even if it meant being wo parents who weren't perfect and finding greater perfection in a different environment.

It's a fantasy, there should have been a verbal connection to her father at the end. The scene with the rose was good, but not good enough for the audience. People want to see connections, not symbols.

It was the attempt to wrap up this story is where it failed. It ensnared the audience in the first two thirds of the story but couldn't write itself out of how it was going to be satisfying. It failed miserably with opportunities to do so much more.

What did you want from the ending? When violence and injustice has been placed upon someone, in story people only want a few things, justice and peace. They want to know there is a bigger plan and that good in the end rules over evil.

This should have been the emphasis and it just refused to offer anything other than a cliche.

I finally decided to watch this film, turned it off after about 30 minutes and watched the rest another day.

Yes, I didn't find it as offensive as I did in poor taste in the beginning. It was unprofessional to use such juxtapositions with little payoff at the end. This was poorly written with an intent to incite others and give the filmmakers some catharsis at the same time.

So what is the story? Nobody really knows. You eventually find out there is a root cause which leads us toward this behavior, but by that time you don't care anymore.

This is a film which demonstrates a disrespect for human life and watching bodies explode is more important than justifying their story. That's what makes it bad. This is what steers it away from entertainment and into a really bad comedy death show.

Gilpin is the only character you can have sympathy for because everyone else dies. You're not even sure where she comes from or what she's about as you only receive bits and pieces and by that time its too late. Everything in this story is too late.

It was well produced but poorly executed. You need proper motives for a story like this. Instead they provide you with this long dialogue sequence in the middle of the film which by the time you, you just want the scene to go away. Okay. She's a crazy bitch. I get it.

You really don't get anything for your time other than some good moments from Gilpin. She is a good actress who knows how to create these moments by herself with little assistance from writers or directors when things are that bad. But there was only so much she could do.

The men in this film are all buffoons. The fight at the end is between two women and quite unfulfilling, though done reasonably well.

If you're going to tell a story like this there better be good reason for it. If you can't justify your violence, then don't do it on screen. Save that for your local neighborhood.

As far as the humor, it was fine but the rest of it wrecked any sense of endearing the audience to the story. Instead its just a stew of poor decisions.

You really just want to go to confession after watching this movie. Blumhouse is good at being fiscally responsible while lowering your IQ.

Unfortunately for me, I knew what this story was about within the first or second episode. A lot of shows are essentially a TV movie, that being the content of the first two episodes completing two hours of entertainment. After that it's a lot of meandering with the emotional involvement of secondary characters that don't matter to us or the story. Mr. Robot was no different.

All I was saying to myself during certain beats in all the episodes was "Tyler Durden, Tyler Durden". The drugs in the story were a dead give away and his stoic essence hiding a deep seeded anger was the other. But the real kicker is not just being a rip off of Fight Club. Even the cinematography was Fight Club. Not only that but it goes after the whole motif of big corp and big debt.

Unfortunately all the characters are worthless except for the main character. He manages to find compassion from the audience through his stoic behavior and inability to physically defend himself or choosing to never use a gun, a truly pathetic ideal as if that was proving something.

The technology storyline was pretty well done, but find their outs were often over simplified and boring. Writers are lazy in Hollywood because they are hired because they know someone, not because they understand procedural writing. It's the hardest writing you can do, but if you take the job, don't blow it. Often they provide so many obstacles and the way out is picking a lock or someone showing up just in time. So boring.

Hacking is the next big thing to threaten America. It's been lying in wait for a very long time and the day will come when someone attempts to cut off all debt ties between banks and the middle class. We know that is the big and central issue of the scam of the American Dream. We know that enslavement exists because our minds can never be free of the worry of the next meal and its all due to materialism. It's a great topic, but this exploration was an outright rip off and lazy through the first season and no different in the second.

Philosophically, it went down an interesting road we all need to be more aware of and that is debt. That is our enemy and we need to acknowledge it more and more. But find your own identity, don't ripoff someone else's. You can use the same motif, but find a different setting and mechanism that explores the mind of someone who is trying to find his life and get it back.

Everyone knows what the show is about. I wish to point out where it strongly went wrong. 1. Season one was about consequences. This made it powerful and demonstrated the foe is here and will make his presence known. This is what made it compelling. Once the drug kingpin was assassinated at the end of season 1 Season 2 became a meandering nuisance of secondary characters leading the main characters down roads the audience didn't care about. Each supporting character who troubles the events becomes an idea in the audience's mind, "Just kill them already, so we can get on with the real show."

This was apparent with the preacher who had no narrative substance other than his faith in his luck. This show is about perception, mostly perception of the self, and everyone in the show is fundamentally desperate, but that isn't enough to make a show watchable. Characters need to do something that forces them to make decisions that push that envelope of desperation and the carving out of the Self as being questioned by its own perception.

Most notably was Wendy. Oh poor Wendy. She represents everything men have grown tired of in life and in television. Overbearing, all knowing, condescending, rationalizing her whole life, nothing making her happy, and of course blaming her husband. Ho hum.

Shows today love to bring women to this higher ground while simultaneously bringing down men's competence, as if it were some car insurance commercial. The constant movement of dysfunction and incompetence, and this even includes the writers, who forsake all character logic and simply allow idiots to take over the ship.

Season 2 and Season 3 both followed the same formula of allowing secondary characters to run the show. There was no further movement, accomplishment. The boat just showed up in between seasons so we didn't really see anything. Then the drug lord was left in Mexico because his handler was murdered, we saw no real cartel presence and thus threat. All we were left with was an old lady lawyer who complained about her personal life bonding with someone she would potentially be killing, again the writer's being foolish. This girl power nonsense went on too long but I did like how it petered out into a puff of smoke.

The one thematic element I liked was the fundamental principal of how things come full circle. You think you will find refuge in fresh faces, but in the end nobody knows you better and wants the best for you than the older relationships and this case, a marriage. Finally able to understand their mistake, and they are in over their heads, they try one more reach to save their own lives only to find out more victims lie in their wake.

It does demonstrate their death that follows them. A life lesson in true toxicity and the end result. However, there were so many missed opportunities, I can't dare to lay them out here. Someone instead tried to do what so many Netflix shows do and that's demonstrate how great and smart women are, and to verbally condescend to men and force them into stupidity to make them look bad. If you want to hold up women, that's fine, but the simultaneous put down of the opposing gender is so Soros driven, it's sickening and old!

I really thought in season 3 Wendy was going to take over more than she did. I thought she would come to the brink of killing her husband but that never happened. They were simply tested to see if each other cared.

Wendy was taken to the brink. It took truly breaking her for her character to get it. A reflection of life. But this story isn't really about her. She was supposed to be along for the ride. Instead. Marty takes a back seat when he is the true talent in this scenario. But the writer's completely lost that ability in the mix of all their secondary character nonsense.

This is why you don't write a show around misfits. It's hard to make misfits do anything realistic. They won't put on a cape, they won't do anything genuine, they are dysfunctional and have no sense they deserve success, so henceforth, they make bad characters to follow. Evidently there will be a season 4 by how the left it.

While the first season came onto the television with a wild burst of fresh content and twisting the idea of the title and its meaning to the main characters, The Americans suffers not from a great concept but from producers who chose to put a pin in the bubble of its success.

When you have agendas in a TV show you lose your audience. This is becoming more and more apparent in TV today, most specifically and no different in this case, is making men look weak and women powerful. It's okay to make women powerful but while you are doing this, it isn't necessary to insult half your audience. Philip was portrayed as the weaker sex, fundamentally playing the traditional female role in how he reacted to life, the children, and what they were doing, while his wife was the cold hearted one. It got old and tired. Gender politics is a great way to kill a show.

The next way to implode is to add a child as the main character. Mad Men did this, and I don't know if its a way to attract younger viewers, and I"m not sure if that really works or if it was producer based politics. I know in Mad Men the boy was the son of the creator of the show.

Holly Taylor was given a task to deal with a character who was supposed to convey her mother's stubbornness and she did. However, when shooting these scenes they should have realized that the translation is nothing more than a resounding gong of a brat who needed to be hit. The character never knew when to shut up and the parents who are killers never had the nerve to do just that. Very odd and annoying. Helicopter parents who are also killers. Never allow kids to take over a show. It's a sign of weakness. In story, kids are pawns, not main characters because that's real life.

Some of their missions panned out to nothingness. I don't mind it so much, but when they string out a narrative, a story expects a completion. In their case it was almost worse because it's so emotional, then they don't complete their mission. This is manipulative and a repetitive way to manipulate the audience.

The show did try to be happy at times and get away from the dramatics. I felt they really needed to have them spend time as people, but more of the screen time was about how Elizabeth was doing the opposite because of her dire need to fulfill her duty to The Cause.

This is a show that is important for Americans to watch because it's a show about brainwashing. It happens in America too but with different methods. The Americans is a show that shows you, educates you, fills your brain with an image, that people become so brainwashed, they are willing to do anything for The Cause. Everyone should understand this and find an identity on their own instead of allowing a gov't to do it for you. Elizabeth didn't know she deserved happiness. She didn't even know what it was.

The most pathetic part was the fact Russian pride made them go back to the vomit that created their whole mess in the first place. You think they would have hung out in Canada, but no, they went back to the country that betrayed them and a country they don't even know.

What I liked about Dexter was his final decision. He acted in a way that made sense. He escaped the insanity. In The Americans, they just to give the audience a big you, you won't see justice in this show and it was deliberate by the FBI agent's decisions to let them go just to save his job. This is a big mistake in writing. Being artful doesn't mean giving the audience the opposite of what you are leading them towards. We knew it had to end and all the audience is thinking about is justice, and what do the producers do? They let them get away. Why? No other reason to to trick the audience and give them an sinking feeling that justice will never be served anymore. It was a waste of time.

I did like how the show delved into the psychological aspects of brainwashing people so they take orders and do things normal people would never do. It demonstrates a realism that is outside our norms. It is very important to understand that a human being can be persuaded if one is so determined.

This is a show about lies. Lies lead to more lies. But the biggest lie comes from the producers who imply to us that justice is coming and in the end they thumb their noses and laugh. They must be Russian.

Spiteful producers are a dime a dozen. It's too bad there isn't any compassion for the viewer anymore. The days when there were endings you didn't exactly expect but were fulfilling.

The Americans emotionally brainwashes you into believing in hope, then pulls the rug out. It becomes lifeless, lame, and unwatchable. Utilizing U2 in the last episode was laughable, demonstrated a lack of content and my god more whining from the mouth of Bono.

The Americans should have ended on a deprogramming program with the FBI agent retiring and going fishing. Instead they simply create a well and put you in it, wasting your time.

A good concept gone to waste.

Unfortunately with El Camino the expectations were too high. Instead of taking it to another level Gilligan decide to take it down a notch.

The twists and turns of BB were not in this storyline. Not even close and you probably can't expect that from a movie versus episodic narratives. But the flashback waste of screen time is what has made people feel the effort is not worth the watch.

Flashbacks only work if they move story forward. In some cases it did, but as the screen time progressed you begin to wonder where this is all going. Really, the task is to simply get enough money to change his identity?

Nobody wanted to see Jesse cook again. What they wanted was to see him find the family he always wanted. In the end you are left empty and wondering what was it all for. That was really why people have spoken negatively about this movie. It's pretty much a pointless story when the opportunity for Jesse to find what he really wanted was ripe for the taking, but they decided to be more sublime.

I won't go into a long explanation, so here is the short end of the why this short story was made into a film.

The story illustrates all the people who this twenty year old knows and meets in this short time period in New York. All of them in Tony's eyes are the same, except for one. One casts a shadow upon the missing piece the character of Tony is looking for in regards to how he sees his future.

The amazing thing about this story is Tony doesn't do some dance finale because dance is not what the story is about. It helps carry the substance of Tony's journey, but its not the story.

Tony's at end tolerance and eventual epiphany when he refers to everyone as "idiots". Why is this so important? Because we grow up and learn to believe in respect for others, but by the time we go to school and realize everyone has lied to us in our youth, you simply want someone who is honest. He saw how dysfunctional and disingenuous everyone was and wanted out, but he didn't want to go it alone, after all this is a love story of self discovery and innocence.

This is basically a man's version of a Victorian age snoozefest story line where the women wants to abandon social conventions. But the essence is the discovery that the world does consist of many idiots and all Tony wanted was one person who wasn't a fool.

That's what the film is about. Watch it again.