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Startes OK but I lost interest when the pilot opend the door. That is one thing that pilots are trained and urged NOT to do. And think about it wht would they. Sure the terrorists might execute haostages but they are just as likely to do so anyway and also crash the plane so everyone dies, plus whoever they can get on the ground. No kust not very likely at all.

Acting was crass and no one explained how they got 4 or 5 pistols onto a plane without anyone noticing and what about the bullet, who drops a cartridge in the toilet and doesn't notice.

No just another keep them watching streaming sevice hook.

Could have been a passable monster war movie but we have to havea woke input with an actress who makes madam Tousauds wax figures look animated. She was about as convincing as a politicians promise. The rest of the film was as others have commented a sort of 80's/90's throwback but quite watchable although the dialogue was very ordinary and full of stereotypical stuff. Mansters were vague and unconvincing (although compared to the lead actress they were good!!!!). Better films have been made of similar stuff, this was sort of a mixed alien cowboys and kandahar and could have been Ok but was destroed by casting and script.

To be fair I didn't make it through the whole thing, ther is a point where you just have to say enough and I reached it quite early. Nothing much seems to happen and there are long meaningful chats that mean nothing in the end. It seems all about relationships and even though the actors did ok I couldn't warm to any of them. The whole was just a soapie stretched to fit the allocated time. Not an Assie show I'd recommend unless you have trouble sleeping. Cannot beieve all the 10 ratings - maybe actors friends and relo's, perhaps it appeals more to women as a show although it wasn't a feminist series.

Really one of the worst encounters I have had. Acting is rubbish , plot non existant, graphics poor. Sqeecky female actors. It has nothing going for it. I can only imagine that this is a tax loss for some Russian oligarch or revenge on the west for recent political events. It is beyond bad and into appalling. I can onlt think that the script writers and I use that in the loosest sence were smoking something extremely potent and it affected their intelligence in a fairly disasterous way. My advice to anyone contemplating buying this is spend your money on some laxative and cut out the middle man.

I have no idea what the show was trying to portray but it failed to entertain at the first step. I really cannot see a DCI with 3 kids and 1 on the way running a team as displayed. The show is neither comedy or drama, neither realistic or fantasy, its just a mess with this woman at the centre . It seems to play to the Jonathan Creek model that made Caroline Q well known but just is so overdone that it is IMHO unwatchable. The writing is really so "over the top" in terms of potraying a DCI with issues at home and in her marriage (don't all these dectective series seem to have the same central character) that it just becomes silly. Not recommended unless you are desparate.

I have no idea why this was even made, it just drags on inexorably into a durge where everyone is downcast and there is no redeeming feature at all. Some police are corrupt "wow what a surprise". Corruption is all around us but not all are corrupt, except apparently in the Yorkshire constabulary. Sorry Yorkshire police have a poor reputation but largely due to really poor leadership IMHO. This film and the rest of the series all show an overload of dour, depressing views of UK society and northern policing. No very entertaining and not especially factual either. No, in case you are wondering, I have no affiliation with police anywhere.

Probably the books are a better option that these films, personally I won't be bothering with either again.

The story is quite good, based on Jack Higgins novel almost a reverse take on the Eagle has Landed. It was a good twisty story and in fairness the story was implemented on screen. The Cast was an issue, firstly John Mills does a 5 minutes walk on / off role for hopefully a good cash payment. Michael York did a good job as he usually does. No the real star was George Peppard who unfortunately was well past his use by date at this stage. Trying to portray a thirty year old at sixty on (at least thats what he look in this film) did not come off at all. He acted and looked a little punch drunk throughout sadly. The authenticity of the film was also diminished by used of Cessna 180 as a Feiseler Storch and why is a guy like Rommel flying across water in daylight in that sort of plane. It goes on the Mail plane at the end is a Russian Antonov, and the German night Fighter was a P51 Mustang. The sum of anything is based on the parts and if the parts are rubbish so the whole tend that way.

Actually a good series but requires some patience and thought, definitely not your star trek / star wars adventure. Done on a fairly low budget - after all BBC save their budgets for re-makes of literary favorites or 19th century costume dramas rather than anything radical and imaginative.

The acting is good and scripts work quite well with a political focus, the science is OK but as with all these sort of pioneer type scifi efforts I always wonder where the manufacturing of the stuff they seem to have is. Arriving on a new world you would want to organise power and food and then basic manufacturing of metals and fundamental materials. No sign of that here. Still a good show with a cliff hanger end which we will never get to find out about.

This is one of those films where you find yourself empathising with the shark. I don't think he attacked the actors for sport as the film suggested but rather he spat them out because they tasted so bad.

The film is enhanced by appalling sound mix and crappy music score which is so loud you can't hear the dialogue. In some films this would be a bad thing but in this one it masks the rubbish acting and diabolical script.

There is no upside to the film except the homage to Jaws in the final line which just tops of the film as beyond bad. In truth the film is so bad it actually is funny so maybe that is what was intended.... I'd avoid if at all possible.

Firts the good, scenery and filming was very good and acting was good too in general, given the script.

Overall though the EM Forster story is opinionated dross by a writer who is essentially trying to endorse their own lifestyle choices as being the panasea for all. As with many who regrad the 'arts' as special they forget the pragmatism necessary for people who do not have the leisure to endulge themselves. The Bloomsbury group is a case in point.

Quite honestly why ther are multiple remakes of this boring and silly book is beyond me. So many are saying this version or that is the definitive version, frankly non are very good because the source material isn't very good. Of course that is just my opinion and disregard if you disagree.

I always think that when watching an action fantasy aka Batman or Jason Bourne and certainly MI there is a line in the sand where you can accept the implausible but beyond which the whole becomes ridiculous. Such is the case with MI RN. Really it is just a series of disconnected action scenes with a miniscule linkage between them. No explanation of the ultra tech and how's or whereby's of the tech toys and the magical arrival of the 'team' at any given place. To me you might as well just extract a bunch of chases's and action scenes from a collection of movies and string them in a loop and you would have the same thing going for you.

Really a bad movie, about watchable if you suspend belief totally. Leaving the obvious piloting flaws and the highly unlikely lightening strike that knocks all power of the plane (planes are hit by lightening every day with little or no effect) the story just goes downhill (no pun intended) from there. In effect it is just a action flick with little or no logic and becomes quite sillly - would you get on a plane with a pilot that looks like he just recovered from a heavy night out on the booze? There is the stupid shoot out at the end, all very good but after that the 'oh wow captain' from the crew and et al, come on ? There are better out there, my advice, find one and don't bother with this.

Why this has 7 rating is beyond me, it is a meandering predictable boring story that just drifts along with little wit and less meaning. It is a shame and surprise that Tom Hanks, a very good actor, is involved in this poor effort. The story cannot seem to decide whether it is a comedy a drama or whatever, it seems to be non as it isn't very funny and doesn't have a lot of drama, so I suppose it is a whatever. I cannot recommend this movie for the above reasons and frankly it isn't entertaining it becomes a quite irritating mess after a short time. Save you money and your time and give it a miss.

If you like sentimental unrealistic naive. Romantic films this is for you. The whole is so unbelievable as a story it takes mills and boon to epic proportions. Characters are one dimensional and just too good to be true, you know everything is going to work out romanitically from the start, that is the whole reason for this stuff. Its all good if you want to believe in this sort of fiction but if you prefer a more challenging form of entertainmaent I'd give this stuff a miss. Every cliche under the sun is used to support this nonsence but hey, some actors got paid and it is doing no harm to anyone.

Thought this would be an interesting watch based on a real character but sadly I was not entertained. The pace was very slow and obviously the director and writer could not decide whether to make a comedy or a drama and in consequence made neither.

The film could have been good but was poorly scipted and somewhat disjointed. I got the feeling it was one of those subsidised 'make it what you want, arty is better than entertaining' though I could be wrong here. Just my opinion. Couldn't really recommend this one as it just meanders along, we all know where it is going and when it does get there it isn't really news.

The show was a back to the roots of the original in its presentation and had more drama and better stories, patricularly the matinee style of a series of episodes. Characters were good and stories moved along. Most were well written, just a few slightly off. There is always the issue of 'cowboys in space' all aliens are bi-peds etc but I can forgive them that given when it was written. CGI was good and really enjoyed the show which is the main reason for watching after all. Interestingly it didn't have the HIGH moral overtones of some of the spinoffs and non of the stupidity of Discovery. Pity that the show was cancelled after just 4 episodes, a real shame.

Might have been a good book but the movies leaves a lot to be desired. Whilst it is well filmed in a picturest area the story could be told in about 30 minutes, plus the plot hole of the alleged murder. Even in the backwaters of the US in early 60's I could not really see someone on trial based on a piece of wool from a beany. There is also the issue of a family leaving one at a time and all leaving the heroine on her own with a drunken father, just can't see that. This was supposed to be a 'coming of age' masterpiece but really ends up being a dreary unbelievable melodrama. I cannot recommend i.

Spoiler by huge plot holes, where did he get 90K for the cottage, and why, for heavens sake were they bugging her car???? This was the crux of the whole and yet there was no reason for it. Acting by the main character was wooden and biy oh boy pouting does not equal expressive acting but apparently it does in this girls world. So overall itb twists and turns but sometimes you are left wondering waht was nactually going on. The police do NOT behave likenthis and I particularly laughed as she saluted the chief constable at the end - REALLY??? So overall a watch but not a great watcha nd I wouldn't really recommend it.

To all intents and purposes this is unwatchable except possibly as a cure for insomnia. To say the acting was wooden would be an understatement, whoever was playing the lawyers wife was really bad. The pace was glacial and the dialogue pathetic. Direction was similarly wanting in skill and talent. So in fact there is nothing to recommend this movie at all really. Fortunately I did not buy it but got it from a library FOC. I would recommend avoiding the movie and watching paint dry or grass grow as an alternative as this will prove much more entertaining and less expensive in the long run. Good luck.

There is a shark but it takes about half the movie to get to it.

The big lesson I saw was if you are on a fairly safe raft don't set it on fire especially if there are sharks about.

Its not a great story and is a little slow but it gets there in the end. If you go for Sharkanado and its sequels then this is probably too slow and requires to much concentration for your needs.

The story is implausible and acting was a washout really but given the script and plot they did not have a lot to work with. Continuity was a bit weak too, two days at sea in the sun and weather and the main character looked like she came from the make up counter at Myer.

Anyway, it is an OK low budget film and I have definitely seen worse. So not sure about all the negative reviews - to be fair the movie is promoted as a shark fest and it isn't so maybe those reveiewers have a point.

It is a drama after all, it was IMHO well done as a 'quick and dirty' biopic of a man who had significant influence in the US and to some extent globally in politics and 'news / propoganda' explotation. About half way in the series you can see that PC crept into the plot. I do not mean that the fact he was a sleazy manipulator of women should be hidden or condoned. The most disturbing issue in my mind was that a news agency set out to, in effect, stage coup by manipulation of news and media. Disturbing as his effect on women was the effect democracy was IMHO worse. The fact that the emphasis of the program is on the sculilous attitude to women (and that should not be ignored) and NOT the just as sculilous effect on democracy speaks to todays parochial attitudes. But, hey, what do i know....

Season 3 is jusrt Jason Bourne dumberd down to 10 years old level. From Jack Ryan the analyst we now have Jack ryan the JB look alike (sans meds presumably) and a story line that makes not much sense and is quite hard to follow with flash backs etc but you don't have to follow it 'cos it isn't important. It is not a series that engages the user who actually requires a story and some idea of a cohesive plot line. I enjoyed series 1 and even 2 although it was not as good a 1. But this is beginning to not be worth the effort to watch it and is even becoming boring as all that happens is some worthless dialogue followed by stupid action scene. Not a good follow on series sadly.

As long as you put your cynical nature on hold it plays OK. It isn't great but no worse that many cop style or soapy series and better than some. Ms Collins although a good actress doesn't really fit here too well and adds to the implausiblilty of the show, not really her fault.

All this is not helped by the fact that the writers seem to have to make the Amassador some kind of super hero rather than rounding the 'team' into the show. Second series is even worse in terms of writing and drifts into 'personal relationships' like many soap operas do. Overall the issue is that it is so focused on one character (aka superhero) that it becomes steadily more unbelievable as time goes on. Shame really because the idea is quite good but the writers were really not clever enough to exploit the idea.

Where to begin, not funny, not entertaining, no story, who cares if theres no story - this only vehicle for fast wisecracks and cheap attempts at wit. The writers must have dragged evey barrel bottom for any remote attempt at humour and warp that to fit Ms Bullocks fast wise cracking downtown chick delivery.

I would like the writer producer and everyone involved in this rubbish be made to sit through 30 or so viewings of it, because I am sure they never saw the finished product and if they did they should give up their jobs and take up a more rewarding career in animal organic fertiliser in which capacity I am sure they will feel in familiar surroundings.

I quite like the 1970's series and film but this re-tread is just that a sad repeat without the magic and acting abilities of the original. I gave up on the film (pilot?) as the acting was so bad and there is just no new story it is just a poor less well made and acted version of the originl. NOt worth thee ffort to watch.

I just do not understand why they bothered except as a cheap money grab. The use of cylon as humas hugely diminished the old story and presumably allows some sex scenes and reduces costs somewhat.

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