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At least not by episode 5. What all the other negative reviews are saying holds true, these are a bunch of immature irresponsible kids sent into space to save the planet and it makes no sense. By episode 5 they were still being petty and annoying, still making insane decisions, still completely disregarding science or any kind of internal logic... I'm done. Don't torture yourself trying to watch this, it's garbage and even Katie can't salvage it.

The movie takes way too long to get going... It has a few chuckles, but overall is just boring. When it eventually does get going, it turns out it's just another complaint about religion... I am not religious, I'm not offended by it or anything like it, but it's simply boring. Ricky just can't seem to talk about anything else, just defined by being an atheist, so one dimensional, so bleh...

I went into this blind because a friend wanted to see it, hadn't read any reviews, no bias... Unfortunately, it's not good.

There is a lot of action and it's done pretty well, but the problem is that the story is just a rehash of T2, but done worse. It's extremely predictable and towards the end just doesn't make sense (with obvious plot holes and deus ex machina). Action without any reason for it to be interesting is just boring!

I didn't really have any problem with the acting as I see some people do and it wasn't exactly painful to sit through it, but that was really all it was, sit through it and wait for it to be over.

I feel like this review page is being swamped by Robin Hood afficionados and movie geeks that are all taking this film way too seriously... This is not historically accurate at all and it's not Robin Hood as you might expect. What it is is a nice action flick offering entertaining action scenes with solid archery combat (if you've ever seen this youtube video of a guy showing how archers actually fought, it seems the makers of this film were paying attention). If watching the bloke from Kingsman shoot arrows into bad people sounds like fun to you, go watch this movie. If you're a history buff, go to a museum or something. It doesn't reach the heights of Kingsman, and there are some plotholes (such as Robin having the opportunity to end the whole thing by killing two people he's alone in a room with... no idea why he didn't), but if you can look past it there's plenty of enjoyment to be had here.

I feel the low rating currently (5.7) is probably because people are disappointed because it can't live up to its predecessor. And it's true, it can't... but in its own right it's still a good movie. Not excellent, but good. The story is okay, the action is solid, and Lisbeth is still badass. If you have the previous movie sitting in a shrine in your house somewhere and you worship it before you go to bed... skip this movie. If you just want an enjoyable if not terribly memorable action thriller, then go ahead and have fun.

I have not seen the anime. As such, I am rating this film on its own and as such I would say it's not great, but it's not terrible either. It feels a bit rushed and a lot of things are glossed over just to be able to get the story done in 90 minutes, but the ending felt satisfying to me. It's not the best movie Netflix has ever put out, but it's fine to fill a rainy Saturday afternoon with. If you haven't seen the anime that is. If you have I can imagine you'd be annoyed by lots of things, but then has any live action movie spin off from an anime ever lived up to the expectations?

So, I didn't expect this movie to be great because I read the reviews on here, but I suspected that it was being judged harshly by fans of the original (and who over the age of 25 isn't?). It's not. If anything, I don't understand how it is still getting a passing grade. The only explanation I can find is many people like the overload of CGI it serves up. The most fun I've gotten out of this movie though, was at the start watching Kate Beckinsale in tight panties and in the car ride home bitching about the movie with my friends. The two hours in between were a total waste of time.

There's the story, which is different in what the bad guys are trying to do and it not being on mars but otherwise so alike to the original that there is absolutely not a single surprise. The only surprise to me was that they didn't go with the obvious parallel ending to the original, which sounds like it would be good, but it's not because the way Cohaagen tries to go about achieving his goal is so unbelievable that when his plan is foiled there's really no sense of relief or grandeur, going with the obvious would have been better. Then what makes it worse is that at every turn they seem to want to remind you of the original movie, by rehashing lots of details from the original (the three breasted hooker walks by without any explanation or logical reason for her being there, including the cheesy you'll wish you had three hands quote, someone gets their hand cut off by an elevator, Quaid/Hauser getting caught by customs because he only has three lines prepared, etc.). Also, the music is ripped from the first movie, which could have been good but isn't because the movie sucks so badly. At the ending when the music starts in in the same way as when the original had just given Mars an atmosphere, it's just a slap in the face because you're reminded how the new ending is so totally inconsequential, it's just not deserving of such dramatic music, it doesn't work. The action and CGI is OK, but it seems to me like it's going through the motions. They threw a lot of money at it, but it doesn't work. The first half of the movie seems to be one big chase and I was bored out of my mind.

Then there's the blatant disregard of physics... I can usually ignore this, but this movie is so bad about it, and with the absence of a plot to distract me, it really bugged me. There's a fast travel line through the earth from the UK to Australia, called the fall, which basically works by letting you fall through the earth to the other side. Now, I can see how that would be possible, in movie logic, so I'd be OK with that. What really bugs me, is how they cope with gravity. If you would do this, gravity would slowly decrease as you approach the earth's core, then start to build up in the opposite direction. Not so in this movie, gravity seems to be totally unaffected while you're falling (you should be weightless already while falling), then around the core, gravity just disappears as if someone threw a switch, and a minute later it comes crashing back with a bang in the opposite direction. That makes absolutely no sense at all. Then, I believe at the beginning of the movie they say the journey takes only a few minutes, but let's say I misunderstood that and it takes 30 minutes. At half an hour, you would still need to have an average speed of 25.000 kph (about 16.000 mph). That's average, you'd be going faster in the middle of your journey. So what do they do during the final scenes of the movie? They open a window and climb along the outside of the craft... If the story would be good, but it's just another thing to show the absolute lack of attention to detail that was put in this movie.

Then there's things like Doug fighting a robot in hand to hand combat and pulling a phone out of his hand without any blood or his hand being mangled for the rest of the movie (seriously, the through-the-nose-brain-surgery device from the original was more believable), it just tests how gullible you are at every turn. As for the actors, I'm not really good at judging how good someone's acting, but Colin is no Arnie. Kate and Jessica succeed in being pretty and that seems to be their purpose. Then, Bill Nighy as the resistance leader??? Don't get me wrong, I love the guy, but you can't take him seriously and he's a very bad fit for this role (however small it is). They would have been better off casting someone no one knew yet.

So to summarize, if you want to watch Kate in tight panties and you enjoy loads and loads of CGI and don't care about such things as plot and believability, then you may enjoy this movie. For anyone with half a brain though, don't bother, just watch the original again.

I actually wasn't too sure about going to see this movie, because shyamalan's name to me actually doesn't mean it's a good movie. I found signs slow, boring and taking itself too seriously, and didn't even bother to go to the village because the trailer even made me feel bored. Not so with Lady in the Water though. It seems to me that this movie doesn't take itself as seriously as signs did, and as a result dares to be humorous. The characters are quite convincing, but at the same time they can be hilarious in their own subtle (or in some cases less subtle) ways. The story that is told, is entertaining, brought well, and doesn't become predictable at all (even though I did guess some things right halfway through the movie). If you go see this movie, don't go in expecting some dazzling plot (and certainly don't go overthinking it) or mindblowing action scenes, just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is. I used to be one of the people that overanalyzed every movie but honestly, since I let that go, I can enjoy movies a lot more. If you can watch without prejudice, go see this movie, you'll thoroughly enjoy it. When I watched this movie, there weren't too many people in the cinema with me (which might also be because it was a 5 PM showing, not typically a crowded time), but of the people that were there a lot of them didn't immediately get up when the credits started, which is usually a sign that people were impressed with the movie (I know I was). I find this usually says something about the movie, which is why I'm mentioning it here.

Okay, first off, I usually skip the reviews that rate a movie a 1, but I vote a 1 for this anyway because it really is awful, and I feel like I have to compensate for the masses of high votes this movie is getting for some reason. Really, me and my friends were baffled both by how bad this movie was, and how it was the first time that IMDb had rated a bad movie so high. The only thing I can think of is that every single person that had anything to do with this movie asked their entire family to go write reviews or something. This movie was also the first one ever for me to not view until the end in cinema (and I've seen a LOT of movies in cinema), but we went to ask the cinema owner if the second part got any better and he actually admitted that it only got worse and he had gotten tons of complaints about this movie. He told us he had no choice but to show it because of a contract or something...

Anyway, as for the movie, now I may have only seen the first part, but it was soooo boring, nothing happened. Seriously, if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the movie. Nothing else happens. The acting is very unconvincing as well, and the special effects are laughable. Now this in itself is not always that bad, and me and my friends actually started this movie with comments like "this movie is proud to be B" expecting to laugh our ass off, just like with movies like shawn of the dead and army of darkness as other people have compared this too... But, there was nothing. Seriously, I LOVED those other movies, but this, I didn't even get one chuckle out of the part I've seen, and the only startle I had was because after half an hour of nothing at all happening we were nearly falling asleep, there was one cheap thing-jumping-out-in-front-of-the-camera type scene. Yeah, that's really worth my money there. (I don't want to mark this review as spoiler, hence the vague description.)

Seriously, I know bad reviews in a sea of good reviews usually get ignored (I usually ignore them myself), but please just don't go watch this movie unless you enjoy wasting your time and money. We had more fun sitting in the lobby upstairs waiting for the next movie, rolling a ball one of us had around, than sitting through that piece of crap. I'm quite a shy person, but I actually turned towards the line of waiting people and raised my voice to warn them to please not go to slither while getting tickets for the next show (other movie! heh ;)), that's how much I want to warn people against seeing this...