Fibre_Optic

If this is not a remake of a BBC show then why does it literally say in the titles at the start based off this Country written by Daisy and Charlie Cooper LOL. This Country made by the BBC and written and staring the Cooper siblings are also Executive producers on this show. You could also add the fact that the storylines are just about the same, just tweaked a little but not in a good way at all dumbed down is what you'd call it. They even got a daisy look alike to play her, which is a bit weird. Just watch the UK version, far more funny and enjoyable, Nice little cash grab by the Cooper siblings,

Another new show for Nick but right from the start I found it quite boring and more importantly Nick seems to lack the charisma to carry a show by himself, although it picked up a little towards the end. He seems to be trying to get away from the all the other ghost hunting shows by introducing the idea the we are all living on the different dimensions and occasionally can tune into each other, also although other shows have investigated various places in one show, this one went from one place to the other, which got confusing at times to be honest. The the idea the we are all living on the different dimensions and we can occasionally talk to each other has been talked about on Ghost adventures, particularly by Zac, he's a believer in it and has mentioned in the past several times over the years. At the end of the day he's still doing the same as the other shows but with what seems a much smaller budget by the looks of things. His cousin is the only camera man, imo he needs to be carrying his own camera just in case he sees anything himself and the only piece of technology are the Geo Port and voice recorder., Katrina Weidman uses that Geo Port on Portal to Hell though nowadays.

What a shocker. Spike Lee's overpraised "Da 5 Bloods" is getting mediocre audience scores (62% on Rotten Tomatoes). Why am I not surprised?

Lee's disoriented collage of a film was getting great reviews because it had the great fortune of being released right in the midst of paralleling social events, this made it too much of a sweet deal for critics to resist and virtue signal. It's a bit disingenuous, but I don't even think the critics praising this film even realize it. Maybe they have just so much empathy at the moment, due to the social unrest, that the notion of a good movie and a bad movie is being blurred.

"Da 5 Bloods" is a gigantic tonal collage with no cohesion to its narrative. It also clocks in at a deranged 154-minute runtime. It takes more than 90 minutes for Lee to set up his story and characters before we are finally thrust into the jungles of Vietnam and our 4 Bloods are on their treasure hunt. What it, sadly, proves, however, is a decline in storytelling skills on the part of Lee, a lack of editing and focus as well. Spike's message might be in the right place with this film, but the end result is a confusing collage of politics, entertainment, and ego. The right timing might be kind to "Da 5 Bloods," but time won't be.

I've read some reviews that claim this is one of Spike Lee's best movies? What!? "Da 5 Bloods" doesn't come close to the hallucinatory brilliance of "Do the Right Thing," "25th Hour," and "Malcolm X." Hell, it's not even close to the movie that other Lee greats such as "Summer of Sam," "Bamboozled" and "Jungle Fever" were.

Personally the film wasn't my cup of tea but I was drug along with the girlfriend and a few of her friemds. The Cinematrography and scenary were very nice and the acting at times was very good but on the whole it was just not for me.

Just reading the comments section though it's alarming how much people from the US sem to live in a vacuum at times & have very litttle clue about Laws and Society of other Couintries outside of their own. Comments especially referring to peodaphillia are quite eyebrow raisinganf strong, especially when its rubbish/ Since Italy as a age of consent of 14 but even if they don't know that they must know the just about every European Country as an age of consent of 16. just like the drinking age is lower in Europe than the US. What more imo if this was a straight relationship, plenty of those same people woildn't give their relationship or small age gap a second thought.

There's even been comments I've seen about smoking and that by the 80's it was known to be bad for your health. Fact is if you ever travelled to Italy or any European main land City att you'd know they smoked like chimneys through the 80's and 90's and still do now and European Cities have always been big smokers, like the French, Spanish and Italians,

ATEOTD it's right to dislike this film for genuine reasons but when peolpe are putting their own Countries laws on it as a standard bearer of sorts and start acting Conservative about subject matters, seemingly because one actor looked a few years older than the other, which is very subjective anyway, well that's just silly. I wouln't mind if this exact same thing doesn't happen all over ther world in real life but it certainly does.

Josh Helman played Lenny with these OTT facial twitches & constant gurning, which was so off putting I nearly turned it off. Contrary to other reviews,the actors portrayal bare no resemblance to the real life Lenny. Anyone that doesn't believe that go on YouTube and watch the few interviews that are on there of Lenny in full Flow. Also the real Lenny was a 20 stone, muscled up monster and dwarfed Shaw in their fights, both in height and bulk. They didn't catch this difference in this film. They had a 6ft2 Josh Helman weighing no more than 15 stone, fighting Bisping playing Shaw who's the same size himself. In reality there was about 5 inch difference and at least 6 stone.

It was obvious to me that the Director had watched Bronson & tried to copy it, both in it's style & the bits of comedy they tried to introduce but it all doesn't really come off. They even put in the singing skit, which is straight off Bronson. I see why they did it because Lenny loved to sing Elvis songs and even brought out an album.

Even though the film sells itself as 'The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters', the Story though is just too short and is just based mainly through a couple of years in his late 20's, when he fights a 40 odd year old Shaw 3 times and a little bit of bare knuckle fighting at the start.

Speaking of Shaw,having read his book I'd have much preferred to see his story on screen, although there would have been room for both interesting life stories. Shaw a man similar to Lenny in many ways but spent 18 years inside before coming out & fighting Lenny in his 40's. Then went on to make himself into a millionaire, through mainly real estate.

Going back to this film, they could have fleshed it out so much more both character wise and story wise. Starting at his early years as petty criminal, to bare knuckle fighter, to unlicensed boxer, to Doorman around London, debt collector & mob enforcer, the attempts on his life, his manslaughter charge, to finally him turning his life around & getting into acting plus writing his biography

Why though they felt the need to turn Lenny into some kind of lovable rogue type who sorted out the ills of his local Community is beyond me. Truth is the man was one of the biggest bullies Britain has seen, even his Cousin Frank Warren described him as "a terrible bully, Lenny. One of the biggest bullies you will ever meet, always intimidating people'. Which speaks volumes.

Apart from his role in Lock stock and his 3 fights with Shaw, he was just as famous back in the day for turning down fights, lying about his accomplishments and getting beat up by the likes of Johnny Waldron & Cliff Field.

If you know something about Lenny, especially his fights with Shaw it might be of interest and is entertaining at times. But other than that, it really doesn't do justice on what could have been another Bronson. Shame this was John Hurts final film.