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She actually used the top secret night phone to call him up for a chat? And he didn't immediately hang up and call her on his cell phone? This is terrible writing.

The first episode was a passable 6-7 out of 10 but the second episode really derails the plot and shows a lack of interest in realism with this spy plot. The main character actually sleeps on a couch near the oval office and no secret service move him on or ask him what he's doing there?

I won't spoil who the main villain probably is but the writing is so transparent that it's clear to see with 8 episodes to go.

Basically if by the second episode this is losing you I wouldn't blame you.

This show didn't seem to know what it wanted to be and what it did try to be it didn't seem to have the budget for.

The review will contain spoilers so be warned.

One of the first scenes we get is the fisherman's daughter introduces him to her new boyfriend, Ryan, the boyfriend is nasty to the father and its clear we shouldn't like or trust him. The problem here is that this remains the case for the rest of the shows 4 episodes, Ryan remains a nasty character and turns out that the father and the audiences opinion of him from the first 5 minutes was totally justified.

A better show would have started by making us hate the character of Ryan and then slowly revealed him to be a good person who we misjudged. Or someone who while being nasty isn't the true threat of the show. But we get none of that here.

Secondly in the very first scenes of the show we are treated to one of several nightmare sequences in which the father imagines the death of his son that drowned. These nightmares are vivid but play fast and loose with the exact details and seem to suggest early on that there is more to the child's death then meets the eye, perhaps even Ryan was involved?

But at the end of the 4 episode run this has gone nowhere and ends up being about 5 minutes of each episode that was a waste of time, it has nothing to do with the mystery at all.

The acting in the show runs from decent in some early scenes with the father to downright mediocre when it comes to the supporting cast and particularly Ryan who seems to spend the whole show glaring at people which makes you question why anyone would like him?

The worst acted characters of the show are definitely the wife and the detective, the wife seems to spend every scene yelling that she doesn't believe the husband or making a poor attempt to seem to care for her mother while the detective can be described as an empty suit that never seems to be doing anything, questions suspects without cautioning them and pulls warrants out as if they would be that easy to obtain.

And finally we come to the budget issues with the show, it's clear to see that a considerable portion of the shows budget may have gone into location and the principal casting. Its just unfortunate that they seem to have had no money left for things like a police station for interrogation scenes (one character is questioned in a shed on the beach in one of the worst scenes of the show.) They also appear to have had no funding for night time shooting as very few scenes occur at night, even when it would have been expected like the few times the father actually takes his fishing boat out to sea.

This started off strong with the scenes of the car crash and the arrival at the hospital but from that point it became very cliché and poorly made.

Not every episode of the Rookie needs to feature every character in the Rookie and this is a prime example of what happens when they try to shoehorn in all the cast into a story that couldn't give them enough to do.

Being the kind of cop show it is, we all can let a little lack of attention to detail pass in every episode but this really started to take the biscuit, the storyline around the kidnapped kid was executed poorly and wasn't believable or even enjoyable.

Hopefully the showrunners learn from this episode and make changes so it doesn't happen again.

Have just finished watching the first 3 episodes of this so-called documentary and am astounded that Netflix thought anyone would be interested in this?

The first episode appeared to be created to win people over and make your like them prior to the big revelations and they are a nice couple to watch together, however it comes across as trying to cry victim from a position of wealth and fame that the vast majority can never achieve.

The second episode began to throw accusations around initially and then quickly got into a race row about Meghan Markles few years of acting, the word 'Bi-racial' is used repeatedly and its done in a way to make it appear this was an issue for the British Public when anyone who lived through it can see it wasn't until they made it an issue.

The third episode derails completely with an almost 20 minute history lesson on British Colonialism and Slavery when you finally realise this is just the latest in Netflix's hate campaign against White People, the show then goes on to try and equate the slave trade to the Harry and Meghan relationship. Harry comes across as very naive and uneducated which is surprising considering his upbringing while Meghan Markle and her Producer friend seem to be running the whole show.

My takeaway from having watched these episodes is that Meghan Markle planned this show from a very early period in her relationship with Harry, recording everything she could with a view to using it later in such a project and it's clear to see he doesn't realise the meal ticket he has become for her.

The classic Unsolved Mysteries were good because they often provided a balanced or alternating viewpoint that encouraged discussion on the case.

The new Netflix Unsolved Mysteries continues to take a single narrow-minded view to most cases with few or no alternate viewpoints explored. This case is no different and a brief Google of the case after reveals a wealth of important information they clearly chose not to discuss in regards to this case due to it torpedoing the narrative they were pushing.

Give this one a look but then go do your own research, or better yet don't watch it at all.

A tragic story, but no mystery here to be found.

Many others have pointed out the flaws and the overly gratuitous violence in this film so here I how I think changing some things could have made a better movie.

1) Why introduce 2 additional missing convicts if you arent going to use them for anything? Dropping one off the hospital was pointless and took up a good half hour of movie time showing him being chased pointlessly, a better use would be for a switcheroo with one of them getting Michael's mask and then dying to the mob setting up a twist comeback.

2) Kill off the daughter and granddaughter, Jamie Lee Curtis spent the movie going on and on about why Michael Kills, which is pointless he is just evil, when she should have been getting ready to kick some ass again. While her daughter is killed in the final scene it's too late to save the movie, this film needed him to kill off her family early on and then have us follow her coming to terms with their loss and planning her revenge.

3) The violence was too random, the film needed more suspense and fear of violence rather then the hack and slash we got, in the older movies it was scarier to know he was nearby and hunting them then watching him catch them.

4) The flashback scenes were pointless and confusing, they have written and rewritten the events of the original Halloween movie too many times, it's becoming too difficult to keep the story straight. In future attempts to reboot the franchise they should concentrate on the first two movies which make up the first Halloween night and take it from there.

5) We needed more creative ways of the heroes trying to stop Michael, in the last film they did a few like running him over or burning him but we needed more of that variety in this one, drowning, freezing or even dropping him off the hospital instead of the poor random convict, any of those would have been better then people constantly stabbing or shooting michael and nothing happening.

Just my few thoughts, either way the movie is 1/10.

If you believe in the sort of spirituality that is thrown about in this show it may appeal to you, after 3 episodes the show hasnt really given the viewer much else other then spirituality discussions.

The acting is very good, otherwise this would have been a much lower rating. If you are looking for another Big Little Lies or the Undoing this is far from it, no thrills, no real suspense, very disappointing.

Some reviewers are saying this is the same as the book it's based on, if that is the case the book must have been a very slow slow read.

Would be shocked if anyone really believes the pay off at the end is worth it.

Once you eliminate the sinister or uplifting music placed in key moments you can start to see the lack of concrete proof in either guilt or innocence of those involved. The fact that a killer is forensicly linked to one crime doesnt link them to all the others but in this case it seems proof of one was used to disprove others.

Having finished watching the show I dont believe John Button was proven innocent convincingly I also find myself thinking of Henry Lee Lucas when I hear of the confessions and crimes linked to Eric Edgar Cooke, if you watch this and come to a different conclusion then it just shows how divisive the case is but I remain unconvinced of the purported innocence of the two men exonerated.

And I agree with the other reviews that feel Estelles appearances in the show took away from the story rather then adding to it.

This movie seemed like it could have been a 5 or 6 out of 10 but midway through the movie it derailed in a big way, and that was with the lightning, it seemed to have a vendetta or something against Angelina Jolie and her repeatedly dodging lightning bolts took me right out of the movie.

The two hitman are played about as well as they could be, it isnt anything you havent seen before. They do seem to go from smooth operators to action movie cliches about halfway through the movie as well.

The film made a big deal in its trailers and other marketing about the fire in the forest but this was woefully underused. There is a brief flashback scene and near the end of the film the fire turns up just for a few minutes of tension and poor CGI.

The brief but sudden violence that you might have come to expect with a Taylor Sheridan movie like Sicario or Wind River isnt here at all, it's a bland, by the numbers film when it comes to the action and wont wow you with anything you havent seen before.

Angelina Jolie was a terrible casting choice, the film could have been salvaged with an older more rugged actress who looks and sounds the part of a tough Smoke Jumper, but Angelina Jolie with her long haired wig doesnt suit it at all.

Steer clear of this film unless you have nothing better to watch.

Do you remember The Boss, Life of the Party or Tammy? If the answer to any of these was yes then my next question would be do you remember them and shudder with regret for the time lost?

Superintelligence is another Ben Falcone film that relies too much on the fame other better movies have accrued for Melissa McCarthy, she is a good actress but no amount of good acting can save a movie this bad.

James Corden being in this movie should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of it, the pacing is all over the place and the comedy is nothing you havent seen done better in other movies.

Do yourself a favour and dont waste time on this movie, maybe if enough people dont watch it, Ben Falcone might actually stop getting funded to make more of them?

This movie is just awful, I don't know what anyone working on this film thought they were making but the plot twists are ridiculous and only come about as a result of them all doing the stupidest stuff. It might have made more sense with a younger cast because between the affairs, drug use and childish attempts to hide crimes it was nonsense.