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None of the one liners hit, the script is not written well or meaningful in any way, and we have seen most of the action before. This is detail flavorless odorless visual junkfood that has nothing to say. I'm sure we can thank Chinese production restrictions for this.

The character motivations are razor thin and sometimes just inexplicable and annoying. The dialogue and ideas that are meant to be meaningful never are because they arent written well or thoughtful; they're all generic and you wont care at all for any of the endless cast of characters and their troubles. There are several action lines meant to be witty, but none of them resonate and you wont laugh even once.

What are we supposed to be celebrating here? What is the point of watching this film? It's just an empty cold wasteland or pointless action that tries desperately to be The Highlander without understanding anything about the heart and soul of those characters and how to emotionally resonate with an audience or build any kind of unifying themes.

Also, Charlize Theron is wafer thin and you will not for an instant buy the action she is selling, despite her boyish haircut and androgynous name and sense of style in this film. Alive for centuries, and never once learned to lift a weight.

Please dont make a sequel. Use the money and talents for something better.

You think this is a bizarre premise at first, but once you finally accept it and try to enjoy the dark comedy, all the cleverness is already gone and you know exactly how it is going to go (excepting perhaps the second to last scene, which I assume was the genesis for this script) as the constant and inexplicably bad decisions of the lead character amount to nothing more than a distractingly gory slasher flick posing thinly as a comedy that gets more and more annoying and predictible with every passing moment. As soon as the lead tears her dress up, you can guess exactly what the final line of the film is going to be and the pathetic lame joke she is going to make. The more I think about it, the more infuriating and derivative this whole thing is. But, at least there is that 2nd to last scene to bolster the film as a comedy.

Bryan tyler does his best at an obnoxiously ironic "comedy" score mixed with dark string ostinatos and some nice orchestral moments and atmosphere.

With that being said, the acting and directing are also actually very good, but it's just a slasher flick at the Bilderbergs house. Or the Vanderbilt's. Or Soros? Or whatever...

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At one point the family drinks hydrochloric acid and is somehow fine 5 minutes later. It is infuriating. Why even write this in the script? It is so frustrating...

In the 80s, youd have one-man-army films that worked because they we over the top or fun etc. So it still made sense if the plot was razor thin. The problem with making a film like this one so gritty and realistic and violent and dark, is that the plot and script must also represent this. This script and story dont even try.

The entire premise makes no sense...they insist on saving one kid for an evil drug lord...but dont mind killing 100 or 200 other people with children of their own who are just following orders and are probably just decent policemen who have no idea what's going on.

And they wont even get paid for it.

And theyll all probably die.

And, somehow, in the opener, one guy double crossed them and knew exactly where all his team was, even the guy in the woods. Such a bad lazy script all around meant only, one mist assume, to practice new stunts and choreography.

Beyond that, it is obvious that you will know all the cliches and tropes. But. You wont see some of the car hits coming because they are well shot, but also completely nonsensical since they come one after another, yet no one sees are hears them coming...again and again. Are the streets in india or Bangladesh covered in silent and cloaked electric vehicles? How about a gun and knife battle with cars and people that see it and completely ignore it and just try to get in the way of it. I mean, it is action and looks cool, if not real all the time, but it makes you groan often.

The acting is actually good all around, even the kid.

Oh, and of course, a beautiful woman gets the last kill without warning or explaining any of it, including what exactly physically makes her equipped to be such a character or how she possibly gets near the villain.

Frustrating. So much talent involved and it's just another one of these movies...

So much stupidity. Some good lines and reasonable chemistry, but the constant improvisational babbling and shouting and whining (it truly never ends and too much of it is clearly not scripted or contextually appropriate or even funny) of preposterous insecurity by Stu just gets on your nerves and never ends. And, most of the time, it isnt clever or witty, either; it is just there to fulfill the cliche and rambles on like a bad night at an improv comedy night.

The premise runs very thin after the first or second uber stop with a blind guy who is supposed to be a good cop stumbling around like a moron oger for 95% of the film.

The shootouts and fight scenes are scripted poorly as well, with one thinking it is funny to stage a gunfight in crummy vet office in broad daylight with sunlight streaming through the windows, but then throwing dog food at the numerous lights in order to somehow make it dark in the room. It makes no logical sense at all.

But, what was the final nail in the proverbial coffin is the final battle ending; Stu is supposed to become a man and stop being a frail whimpering cowering idiot, but in the end, the film hammers you over the head to suggest that being Stu--who doesnt really change much in the end--is what will get you a good woman and that you shouldn't ever kill people even if they murder everyone, including people you know, and try desperately to kill you and your family and sell heroin to teenagers and infiltrate the police force. The good cop is just a tough guy alone with his dog who was bitter cause his dad was jerk. The balance between all the characters just isnt there because the arcs in their writing are not inspiring or true to life.

Also, Mira isnt in it nearly enough.

So, though, they are both likeable, there are much better buddy cop films.

While this is clearly attempting to follow in the footsteps of True Detective season 1, the writing and acting just dont measure up. This is not good.

Poorly defined autistic detectives with needlessly old cars, whose autism plays no roll in the show whatsoever other than to be a badly written and oddity, like the car, that is meant to make us assume she must be especially genius and good at her job, even though she never uses it and the car has no purpose other than to suck. Oh yeah, and its fantastically annoying.

Bad dialogue--sometimes it will make you wince--involving forced emotions or needlessly vague or incomplete answers that lead to characters making bad or I'll informed decisions.

Dull characters and fairly lame characterizations of those characters

Oh, and a demon that weaves a needlessly elaborate web of deceptions and threats for no reason when he could just do things much more simply. And, everyones favorite: Phone calls with very important information that end with "I need to tell you in person". Yeah...

Music that is nonexistent and nothing but droning and dissonant noises and thumping that is just irritating, not scary. The emotions are all very hollow.

This may be due to Stephen King, who churns out books like it's a 9-5 gig and probably just accepts bad writing due to deadlines at this point. I dont really know. None of this is scary. It barely cracks into the creepy zone because you'll get so annoyed by the cheap devices I have mentioned.

You will feel nothing for any of the numerous characters in this show, but you will surely laugh sometimes at its offbeat irreverence and quirks. Does that justify an entire season and possibly more? I don't think so.

This show could have been fantastically funny and moving at times, were it not for its lack of cohesiveness, bad character development in broad deference to diversity quotients and unnecessary and overt wokeness over fundamentals, like script. It is definitely still offbeat and funny, but none of the characters are likeable enough for you to even care about or root for them, so you never really get engaged with any of it. The pacing of the jokes often just end up being people shouting at each other and immediately changing from one emotional state to the next for no well-scripted reason or just going from 0 to 10 on a dime. Like watching the end of a tumultuous marriage to strangers that you never cared about but somehow know you hate. Why would you CHOOSE to watch such cold bickering?

It is frustrating; Judd is a very funny character and Laurie also does a great job with his lines and direction, but Laurie's character is totally unlikeable and designed specifically to be useless in the show; they are only there to be abused by the other 'diverse' characters in the show. And, these other characters just happen to be better than them at everything (solely because they are diverse or female, apparently), constantly proving to them how useless and inept these two are as human beings. In addition to being a inept and incompetent, Laurie the lead is also a complete fraud who steals the valor of his diverse cast in basically every single episode.

The guy from Silicon Valley is also very good here playing the exact same beta mumbling encyclopedia as he did in SV (a much better show). However, many of the lines delivered by him--and several other characters--don't at all fit the situations they are placed and it doesn't make sense that his character would be in this position on the ship at all.

There is, of course, a woman or two in this show who is constantly obnoxious, rude because they 'don't need no man' (why would she when all the men in are completely incompetent useless hacks who steal glory from everyone else or are just plain unlikeable jerks or just totally inept cowards?). This is meant to be funny empowering and respectable, I guess. I see it as tearing others down to build yourself up; pretty cheap writing, to me.

The humor often is funny--at least on the page. You WILL laugh sometimes at one liners quirky writing and ad-libbing. It comes off a bit Pratchety at times, even, which is great. However, much of the humor is dulled because you just don't care about anyone and they CONSTANTLY talk and bicker for absolutely no good reason so much that when an episode is done, you kinda just want to enjoy the silence and question the purpose of turning on a tv or laptop ever again.

The forced stupidity, complete lack of character depth, inexplicable character frictions and resolutions, and woke agenda in this show collapses the pacing and even any minimal emotional moments that might make you care just a little bit for anyone in this show enough to stick around for a season 2

If it is a woman or a diverse character, it is portrayed as better than any of the characters who are white and male, and it is very obvious that this was intentional, despite the fact that no one would watch this show (or even green light it) if Laurie wasn't the main character.

WIth that being said, some of the situational humor and quirks are exactly how a sci-fi comedy should be, utlizing inane bits of science and engineering and space habitats to create uniquely comical events that will make you chuckle or blurt out laughing occasionally. Ultimately, though, it leave you wishing it was made in a different time when story, plot, and character were more important than quotients and other agendas.

Very interesting idea and storytelling with good music and art and sound design. The voice acting is very strong. And, despite lofty and complex narratives, it is centered on the human condition and family relationships, so it is immediately relatable. If you like psychological sci fi, this is a captivating watch, though MANIAC on Netflix is very similar in its themes and is FAR superior for reasons I describe later, mostly due to MANIACs superior script that isnt smug or expository or reliant on animations for insterest and nearly every character has a meaningful arc.

Also, the animation is interesting and allows the special effects to blend easily and look real while allowing the animators to enhance any weaknesses in the physical performances of the actors or sets.

Undone isnt without its faults. It constantly and insesently virtue signals by Howard Zinning america, westernism, and americans with completely needless zingers that have nothing to do with the plot (except to make the lead even more dislikeable, I suppose) while shoe-horning romanticized anecdotes and spirituality of any other culture except american culture. This often tears you right out of the story and makes the story seem like a thin cracker on which to deliver a pate of smug angry propoganda. Why does EVERYTHING have to be some kind of woke, these days? And, if so, can't the story come first and only then maybe you can slide in your nonsequitor jab at America if you really need to get it out there?

But, that wouldnt be the so bad except that the lead character is extremely selfish, annoying, rude, wholly unlikable, and she encourages the same from those around her. Yet, she is given amazing powers that she absolutely doesnt deserve and then ::spoilers:: we find out her dad is a bad guy, too. There is nothing to like about the lead characters in this show at all. The mom is overbearing, the dad is a jerk, and the daughter is even worse.

And, then, they make the sister awful, too, by marrying a man ::spoilers:: who she doesnt love who she cheats on repeatedly in a pattern because (though this isnt stated as a bad thing, just a sarcastic joke) she was raised by a single mom and never had a solid male role model. Yet, the story doesnt dwell on this aspect or treat it much as a negative, but instead, celebrates these multiple lies as though they are somewhat meaningless and empowering for her as a woman.

But, it is the ending of this that is ultimately unfulfilling and badly written. I wont spoil it all here, but it is completely unsatisfying and weak and the time traveling aspect from any point of view doesnt even try to make any kind of sense.

I really began to like this somewhere after the first episode and then got more annoyed by the final half and especially the end. But, it remained compelling enough to finish and is definitely interesting.

Finally, I dont understand why bob odenkirk is in this. He does well in the role, but doesnt seem to fit the proper ethnicity for the plot.

This show is a cherry bomb that starts with magnificent bang but ultimately just breaks stuff and leaves a giant mess everywhere.

Having no expectations, from the oddness of the show, I really wanted to like this. But it both mocks while ultimately embracing painfully woke culture while nonsequitors lead from one bit of nonsense to the next in increasingly mottled and incoherent ways.

Somehow, in a "fun and qwerky" zombie show with Ferris Bueller and his obivous acolyte, josh, we get a longwinded dire lecture from a highschool kid about shaming and polyamory threesomes and whatever...and it isnt at all ironic. It is meant to be the ultimate subversive lynchpin of the show. Keep in mind this is a post apocalyptic zombie show with a murderous cheerleader zombie clique.

It leaves you frustrated by increasingly annoying characters more than enjoying any of it. It tries so damn hard to subvert expectations and be woke that it leaves you feeling like a battered wife being gaslit for 10 hours, being bounced back and forth between ever-changing inner-logic, character motivation, heavyhanded political messaging. This is despite many of the subversions eventually being transparent and seeable miles away once you catch on, and the ones you dont see dont make amy sense at all. Especially as it drags on...and on. Right up until the final scene which inexplicably (but very very predictably, based upon the politics of the show) flips the entire purpose of the leads on its head in the final 30 seconds for no logical reason.

Should have stopped watching after episode 8, but didnt. It was just so painful to watch and nonsensical. I wanted to kill all of them.

I implore you to just pay a few bucks to go see Zombieland 2 for better storytelling and more heartwarming and ridiculous irreverent satire on the genre.

This show is a cherry bomb that starts with magnificent bang but ultimately just breaks stuff and leaves a giant mess everywhere.

I stumbled upon this randomly, as I did with MANIAC, last year, on netflix. It even shares some of the same actors, enjoyably. However, unlike last year's offering, this show severely suffers from uneven writing and pacing and a heavy dose of overacting. The lack of subtlety and nuance associated with this new show is disappointing, to say the least, and makes a very interesting premise fodder for a fairly mundane sitcom-like experience. I like Rudd a lot, but I dont feel he--or the others-- was directed well in this. In fact, I felt very little of anything for the characters while watching this and it didnt really dwell or illuminate the existential crises suggested by its title. Whereas MANIAC allows you to care for each character, examine life and existence and connections, this uses those ideas and puts them through a meat grinder and relies only on relentless overacting due to poor pacing and writing, as well as slapstick comedy to create most of its humor.

Watch maniac, instead, if you really want to dive deep into this subject matter well. It is a slow slow burn, but well well worth the time and multiple viewings.

This is good if you're in the mood for something goofy and light and quirky and fun and dont bother to question the bizarre actions of characters. But, I doubt you'll be running back to watch it again.

Honestly, I am a harsh film critic and find the writing to always be the worst thing about films. But, the writing of this show is top notch. It blew me away and is far better than any other show i have watched from amazon probably all the network and cable shows. The irony is great and I believe I laughed out loud in every episode; let me tell you, it is very hard to get more than a chuckle out of me. The wit here is almost flawless. The execution of the edits and the direction are so well done. And the dialogue is mostly fantastic with perfect satire and pastiche while creating a truly emotional finale that is well built and hard earned and unexpected. Not to mention the perfect tightrope of sincerity walked by the actors who all deliver confidently and robustly, as though it were a big budget affair. You wouldnt know some of them arent star actors . Truly.

Amazon is CRAZY to cancel this gem. They have so many insultingly garbage shows with bad acting and worse writing that get slapped together for second and third seasons. Thank god jcvd season 1 is so well written and planned that it works as a standalone without need for season 2.

Amazon, shame on you for torching this fine piece of sincere emotional comedic satire. It is the only show you have that delivers. And it never resorts to filler. I cant say enough about this show. I love it.

So, Stephen Dorff has the amazing power over the snakes AND the amazing power to fall through the glass ceiling once...AND THEN DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN a split second later? Nice. Real nice. That's what I'm talking about.

And how about all those misplaced score cues. Remember when he gets in the truck and is hunched over his seat drunk, about to pass out and then, for no reason, there's a dissonant freaky score cue....and then 20 second LATER the creepy truck appears...yeah, a movie loaded with wonders like that.

I salute you Dylan Tichenor. My Hero ...And Mr. Figgis. Just what kind of a movie WERE you trying to make here? Supernatural? Scary? Is Stupid a genre? It should be A genre for all those movies with half-assed half-witted writers behind them who can't decide.

Crappy Editing, crappy sound, crappy script...yumm

One of the most rancid movies of our time.

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