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What did I just watch? Okay, here it goes.

I enjoy black comedies. Very Bad Things, Evil Milo and The Babysitter is how you mix horror, action, inappropriate things with a level of humor. But one thing those films had that this one does not......is...humor. I did not find anything amusing because I am an adult with an adult-acting brain. This script could have been written by a horny 14-yr old and you would not notice a difference in the movie we just got.

The jokes are one-liners that appeals to no one over the age of 15(or people whose maturity level is not past 15). They are flat and unfunny. Outside of a brief moment with Paul Reiser, there is no dialogue, just different people making some random one-liner that the audience is supposed to laugh at. I can see someone rating this a 5 or 6, anything higher are fake reviews.

If this had been a concise story done in one season, I could see an 8 or 9 star.

Maybe if it had concluded in season two, maybe a 6 or 7 star.

Season 3 was unnecessary and season 4 was so stupid that it was only because of the acting that the final score was not lower.

Remember Game of Thrones, how the last three seasons destroyed almost all the goodwill of the show. Same here, except it does not have five good seasons first, only one.

Problems 1. No one dies. There is so many death fake-outs that you do not even take them seriously. Shot in the stomach, no problem, stabbed everywhere..no problem , fall off buildings that would hurt Spiderman....yet in the next episode or so...they popped up again like nothing happened.

2. Billion dollar corporations and spy agencies with zero security. Seriously, my office has more security hiding supplies then this show. You can walk up anywhere if you get past one stupid guard, can hack anything with a simple laptop and have confidential conversations in crowded hallways or coffee shops.

3. Plot device and soap opera. Everyone it betraying everyone else, everyone is asking everyone else to trust them, even though I have betrayed them two episodes ago. For a show taking across all of Europe and Asia, people randomly run into each other, in different countries and cities several times a show.

Great storyline if it was a min-series or one season, taking it past that requires lazy writing...and there is an abundance of that here.

I know it is not, but it looks like a Zach Snyder vehicle.

Multiple locations without connectivity? Check Lack of character development? Check No understanding of character's motivations? Check Irritating music or score always in the background? Check Lot's of action yet still seems boring? Check Single thin female warrior who cannot act and you really to not care if she lives or die? Check Story pushed along by plot device instead of cohesive writing? Check Not sure who to root for? Check

The only difference between this and Rebel Moon is that Rebel Moon took place entirely in a green screen warehouse. Here, the actual backdrops are real.

It only took three minutes in this movie to realize just how bad it is.

Direction: Absolutely horrible. There are four distinct scenes in the first three minutes that gives you whiplash as they come from nowhere, makes little sense and not related or pass the story along. Three of the scenes could have been removed and the story would not have changed(would have been better).

Acting/Writing? Not sure what caused it but the characters were talking in complete whole sentences with zero emotion, monotone, without in inflection in their voice. 'You are a rogue agent of the CIA and that is why I have been sent here to your hotel room in Berlin to shoot you with my handgun.' That last statement is not exaggerated.

Editing. It appears as if they grabbed some clips for the cutting floor from other failed movies and stuck them together. There are 'news clips' that look EXACTLY like they are from Starship Troopers. Why?

Aaron Eckhart is a very good actor and he was reduced to a bad parody of Kneau Reeves which is highly frustrating.

The news scene are creepy, this movie should have been a comedy.

Like most series that has an amazing first season just to completely blow it the second season.

The problem is the main character works better as a sidekick. With season one, even though Mark is the focus a lot of attention is on Omni-Man. With season two the focus is only on Mark and it is absolutely horrible.

1. The story appeared to be written by a jilted 25 female virgin. In a superhero show, too much of it is teenage angst . You cannot have R-rated language and violence and have storyline more akin to a Nickelodeon Lizzy McGuire having a crush on a new student. Just stupid.

2. You are one of the most powerful people on Earth, yet the fight scenes are boring because you sit there and watch the villain walk right up to you and hit you(you have Flash like speed!!!!!!!!). You stand there, mouth agape, do not turn around, do not fly and talk stupidly in fight scenes. We had adult writers writing for adults, now we have Gen Z writing for Scooby Doo disguised as a superhero cartoon. On one scene a housewife with a glass shard did more damage then the superhero by using basic fighting tactic.

3. Blah, blah, blah. Too much talking without any purpose.

Season 2 is just bad, really really bad.

1. I like the storyline and the initial plot. It is a little bit Body Snatchers, little bit X-Men, little bit drama and police thriller.

The problem...execution.

Direction: Who ever directed this should be sent back to high school plays. The great storyline is COMPLETELY moved forward by plot devices.

A person with a two minute head start in a car, yet the pursuers are right behind them in ten seconds.

In just one episode alone, people coincidentally ran into each other at the exact right moment 11 times, in a city that has 1.5 million people. That is like people knowing each other and running into each other 11 times in Phoenix, San Antonio or Philadelphia, without the use of GPS and totally by accident.

No security anywhere...none. People are walking right up to police sergeant's desks and rummaging through them with no one noticing.

The main characters, police, bad guys & bystanders all make the most insane non-rational decision almost 80% of the time. You are chasing a villain that has killed multiple policemen with guns....and one episode later you say..'Let's split up'.

In another fight, let's go in without any weapons at all, after seeing a bunch of your colleagues die when they had weapons. Just Stupid

Editing: The whole let do 25 edits in a six-second scene ploy. Have to make the scene have more action than it really does.

I seriously debated on even finishing it because of how badly it was directed.

A low budget mafia series based in the 80's. I'm good with that. You do not need expensive props to make a series that based upon the drama of mafia families with a couple of shootings and stabbings every once in a while.

What you do need?

Acting. The ability to make the characters seem believable. Here the actors come across like high school students practicing for a school play about the mafia. Everything is exaggerated to the cliched stereotype of New York Italians. Having some of that is fine, having the majority of the cast acting that way is grating.

Writing. Maybe is not the actors fault, they may be doing the best they can with the material that they are working with. The dialogue does not have a 'natural flow', instead it is a collection of complete sentenced-statements (Jimmy, why don't you go to the refrigerator and get the butter and put it on the table for dinner at 7pm). No one talks that way.

Direction. N/A. You are jumped from scene to scene without correlation, background, or even knowing who the parties are.

Skip.

Yes, you read that right....just seven minutes into this movie and it was apparanetly clear how badly directed, written, edited and acted.

Editing First clue to a bad movie is when a very simple scene have multiple edits in just three seconds of scene. GUILTY. A chase scene was edited so badly that you did not know who were the good guys or bad guys.

Direction: The villain is only five seconds behind me, I ran off the road, get stuck, get pushed out and now the villain is about 30 seconds behind me. Stupid...just stupid. Oh, the the villain is steadily firing a machine gun and not hitting anything once.

Writing/Acting: I am about to lose my life and I rattle off a statement with the same emotion of ordering a soy latte.

Skip this movie.

Where do I start?

The lead actress must have won the role from the casting couch, because she could not have acted her way off a stopped bus with the door already open. She definitely went to the Kneau Reeves/Kristin Stewart master class of acting. She has the same deer-in-headlights looks whether she was mad, sad, disappointed, scared, happy or sleeping. The character, whether written or so badly acted that you hated the main character and was hoping she would be eaten by a land shark or something.

Too many of the characters are caricatures, the stupid police officers, the weird old person who only speak in clues, the over-acting young person, the bar full of people that stare and the lead character who is the smartest person yet the same old making the dumbest decisions.

Ending....not spoiling it, but it appears the writers/directors did not know how to end it, or ran out of money(not sure on what), or got approval for a second season so decided to leave everything open. In short, there are not the answers you are looking for at the end.

Do not watch this! You will be disappointed! Again do not watch this you will be disapponted.

This is a case where they started making a movie and decided somewhere in the middle to change the narrative. It is pretty obvious the writing/tone of the move changed and instead of a fullly flesh out story, they wanted to keep the budget below $100k(outside of Mel's salary) and cheated to give us this.

The acting was well enough, the tension was there but the decisions did not make sense. The biggest issue is the ending. It will make you want to throw something at the TV.

Do your self a favor...skip.

Sixteen minutes into the movie....that is all I could take....and even with that I was rooting for the villain so much I skipped to the end to see if she died or not.

Plot as they say....is a lady is taking a road trip alone and gets mixed up with a stalker/hunter. There are shades of 'Hitcher' which is WAY much better. With this movie is the protagonist makes every single dumb decision you could make, essentially the story is written so badly that if she made just one smart decision the story is over. I realized you need plot devices and coincidences to make many movies work, but here all the devices are based upon stupid, just stupid decision and coincidences that scientifically cannot happen.

She leaves a place, has a two hour head start and he appears in front of her?? How???

I'm done.

Pros: Intriging concept. Mafia-like family controlling the port, with people trying to take over the throne, the backstabbing, the betrayals, the side deals, etc. So initially you get the idea of this being a Spanish version of Rome Suburra......except the execution is no where near the Italian counterpart.

Writing. There are so many scenes involving someone calling somebody's name or saying 'stop'. Way to many. Just irritating.

Very few 'real' conversations. Instead, it was people reciting individual sentences to progress the audience to the next scene. 'I am going to take our daughter and drive her to school' or 'I am going to call my brother on the cell phone and invite him to lunch tomorrow' are example of statements made to inform the audience what the character will do next, instead of natural conversation.

Direction. The shaky cam, multiple edits within one scene, face close-ups, loud music during action...all the necessary tricks to decieve the audience that more is going on. The fight scenes are choreographed so badly that one person actually had a knife over their head bringing it down to stab someone, I almost stopped watching from that scene alone. People would all have guns but for some reason forgot they had guns and fight hand-to-hand for no reason at all.

Ex Machina.....for a city with almost six million people, there appears to be only one coffee shop, one restaurant, one alley, one police station and only one side of the port because people kept running into each other by coincidence, throughout the series.

How can a sci fi about people with powers be boring?? But here we are.

The first one was actually engaging, and aactually offered something different than the usual mutant power people. It was low budget, yet was able to craft a decent story with very good effects.

So what happened? It felt like this story had nothing in it. If felt very formulaic, no tension, no emotional investment...no...nothing. The characters were one-dimensional, there was no story, and EVERY SINGLE person is making the worst decision ever. Everyone just stares at the threat until it is too late, no one knows how to hide and I cannot really remember any one showing a real emotion....no one.

This is a hard pass. I can almost pick the movies that was written by AI, and this was one or them.

Decent atmosphere, decent acting, nice build up of tension......and then.....it ends.

Yes folks, it is one of those movies where a director had a good idea and did not know how to end it so they stopped in for almost no reason at all. The movie sets up for a thrilling climax or big reveal and you look at the clock and only a few minutes left and wonder how they are going to wrap everything up. Then it happens........the credits start rolling and you scream ''WTF?!!'.

Please take some advice from me and save yourself 88 minutes of your life. This is not worth your time unless you are one of those types that get caught up in the atmosphere more so than story.

For what appears to be a decent-sized budget, this move is bad. Now I can almost pick out movies where the script was written by AI, this is one of them.

Good Acting: The acting was overall decent. The daughter and father was a little over the top but over all the actors was able to display the range of emotions effectively.

Bad Writing: No real dialogue, one sentence statement jammed together. ALSO, this is not a disaster movie, this is a family drama movie that has a disaster in it.

Plot Devices: I stopped counting after 15. Everyone or everything happened just in time for the maximum dramatic effect. I have trouble finding people in my house, yet entire family find each other from different parts of the city 10+ times.....without the aid of cell phones.

Mica: Have a drink for each time someone says 'Mica' or Simon' and you will die from alcohol poisoning. So many times an entire scene is a different person screaming 'Mica'.

This wants to be a poor man's Da Vinci Code, with weird murders, secrets hidden in paintings and scruptures, US detective way much smarter than all Euopeaan counterparts, and moving from city to city......but while Da Vinci Code was interesting, this is a boring, uninteresting and bland 'thriller'...and I use the word 'thriller' loosely.

Pros-Acting. Some decent actors and they play they part.

Cons-Writing and/or direction. Not sure which is which so both of them are combined. You never know how the clues are figured out. You see someone start chasing down clues without knowing how/why they had the clue in the first place. The flashbacks are so confusing that you do not know what or who you are looking at. The movies juts around without a clear cohesion...at one point I did not even know whether they were in US or some place in Europe. Just a mess.

It is very hard to combine murder/comedy and to do it successfully. Because of the comedy overtones, you cannot take the fight scenes seriously so it is hard to get invested or care to have any tension in the scene.

The comedy could work if.......it is funny. But the director is focusing on the wrong comedy part. The scene of the brothers being scared to tell Mom they were attacked by killers is funny when they get home and they see that their Mom is more gangster then they are. That's funny! But instead they focus on a overly cliched bumbling fool who belongs in a 3-minute SNL skit, not a multi-hour movie series. He is never funny, just stupid, and the actor does nothing to make the character sympathetic. Most of the time you are wishing someone will kill him.

I give credit to having some action in each episodes, but it felt like cotton candy, okay the first time, but the second or third time you throw it away in the trash.

Have you ever watched a movie where the characters are traveling to reach a special destination and you are wondering what will happen when they get there and then the movie ends without them getting there and you then realized the whole movie is about the journey itself and you never get your answers? This is one of those movies.

Generally speaking, a movie has three acts: intro, middle and the climax or some version of this. This movie has a slight intro(only on one character) none of the others, starts going into the middle...AND STOPS! We know who the good guys are, we know who the bad guys are, but we never find out the WHY on anything! The movie almost feels like they ran out of money and they tacked on 30-sec ending and called it a day. Something happened. There are some noticeable decent actors that are used so sparingly you wonder why they were in this in the first place. It was almost as if they were making a different movie and found out a famous actor was nearby and asked them to come on set to film a scene or two and leave.

Pros: The acting is actually good. More could have been done with Littlefinger but I do not have any real complaints about the acting in general.

The tension starts early in the movies and stays consistent throughout.

Cons: Plot devices. In the days of cell phones, an experienced firefighter ON DUTY has zero? And no transportation? Bad guys who are two days behind, transport literally across the country on a lonely road and get set up before their target drive by? Forest fires that I accidentally walk into, and do not smell miles away? Doomsday survivalists who do not own a gun? Hitting targets several hundred yards away but missing in a 10ft kitchen? Police stumbles across a double homicide and do not radio it in?

It just felt unfinished.

I generally to not review movies unless I have watched the whole thing. I saw John Woo and thought it cannot be that bad since he is a respected action director. Well every director will eventually have a turkey....and in this case, a turkey farm.

First of all, the movie jumps around from a classroom, to a house to a hospital, to a house, to a hospital without any cohesion between the scenes.

Second, the mood music is ramped up to a 10 and whenever movies overlapped scenes with music, they are trying to create an action or dread that their poor direction is unable to accomplish on its on.

Third, make someone, anyone likeable. Hard to watch a movie when you pretty much hope everyone dies.

Fourth, make a good decision. I have just been attacked by a monster, villain, robber or something, which also killed someone I knew.... I do not go back to the scene of the crime, ALONE...and act like nothing happened. Just stupid.

The series in intriging, gripping and a nice piece of action if you do one thing....turn your brain off.

The series is based upon plot devices, entirely on plot devices. A very simple, 'I have to go because my daughter is in trouble' statement could have reduced this series in half. Really. That is all that was needed, and something that 99.9 % of the population would have done. Instead there is silence(for no reason at all except to give the story a plot)...and that is how this entire series go.

All cops are stupid and incompetent, investigators are the bad guys for no reason at all, and the victims are so uncharaccteristically dumb that yo are actually rooting for their death(I was upset when one victim got away).

The protagonist (and his friends) purposely put themselves in danger for no other reason than to have another episode. Also, people routinely teleport to where they need to be without rhyme or reason. I need to magically be at bad guys' apartment without divulging how I got here, done. Bad buys show up at the random warehouse on time...done.

One, I did not watch the anime series, so I am judging this strictly by its own merit.

Pros: 1. Interesting storyline.

2. Fight scenes are action-packed and some of them are unique.

Cons: 1. Marvel mistake. Characters tend to forget their power until it is convenient. One character who could move like Flash for some reason 'just stopped' near the climax. While many have abilities, for some reason they decided that karate chops and holding people's legs was the best fighting technique.

2. DC mistake. No communication. Characters will spend five minutes saying they have something to say and end up not saying anything when it would benefit the situation. If I give you power and send you out to fight for Earth's survival, how about show how to use the power? If I have something to tell you that will help, why not just share it. Stupid.

3. Acting. It appears that 25% of the dialogue is people screaming other's names. Just stupid and irritating.

4. Plot Devices. So much of the story is based upon everyone(good and bad) making the worst decisions every single time.

I can enjoy slow character-driven movies.....as long as there is a payoff for the slowness.

This movie is similar to M. Night original movies, where you as the viewer do not know anymore then the characters in the story. That was nice and refreshing. There were purposeful plot devices that kept you guessing on what was real or not. Again, pretty good so far. Several scenes could have used some editing and easily cut out 40+ minutes of filler, but still okay as long as you have a payoff.

Problem is, there is no payoff. So instead of enjoying a slow build, instead you feel as if the movie wasted your time. If the movie had a ending, I could have enjoyed it, but it didn't. The movie credits starts running and you are left with 'WTF?'. Lazy, this is one of those directors have has a good idea, but not sure how to end their project, so they leave it open-ended under the guise of 'audience interpretation'. Dumb.

Other things to note, none of the characters are likeable. The young girl is as stupid and mentally challenged as the 'Hereditary' girl, someone who should be watched 24/7 but the parents thinks it is okay to let them go out alone.

Again, another movie where stupid impossible decisions by the characters are used to propel the story forward.

I thought it would get better after 20 minutes and but I made the mistake to wasting another hour of my life.

As mentioned, there is plenty of blood and gore and if that is what you need, it works. It fails on everything else.

1. You do not care about the characters, I wanted all of them dead. It is hard to care about a movie when there is no one to root for.

2. After the 'Scary Movie' franchise, you would think movies would ramp up their writing, as to not appear like a parody of all horror movies. But no. Do I turn on lights? Do I separate from a group after already seeing death? Do I wait for the entity to get up and chase me before moving? Do I at lease try to leave the haunted place? And lastly, do I have normal conversations as if I forgot about what just tried to kill me?

Save yourself.

I wanted to like this, I really did. The movies starts off interesting, giving the viewer a nice backdrop of the story.....then it happened....the other 80 minutes of the movie.

First thing noticed is the action scenes where you cannot tell the good guys from the bad guys. There are people shooting and other people falling down and you do not know who is who...or care.

Secondly, the dialogue is on the level of a high school play...junior high.

Third, not many good decisions, actually there was only one good decision(actually great) and everything else is a bed decision to push the story forward.

Last...when you see your enemy that you have ben trying to kill all movie...just kill them. Do not do some STUPID monologue that does little to propel the story and only makes it easier for your enemy to get you. This happened multiple times on both sides, the good and the bad. Just stupid.

This was not in any way an Insidious movie......instead someone took a camera into a Halloween haunted house, film some footage, hired Patrick Wilson to shoot some scenes over the course of a weekend, spliced in his scenes(that appeared was taken from his house), spliced in scenes from previous movies to remind you of the previous weak stories, and slapped an Insidious title to it.

I will go a step more, I believe this was not even an Insidiuos movie to begin with, just a random horror movie and Blumhouse bought the rights to add the movie title.

I am not exaggerating about the Halloween haunted house, there were multiple scenes using the same level of effects as you would see in one. This was sad.

Also, extremely predictable.

Also, also, not scary.

Also, also, also....could have been solved with one phone call or one car drive.