luca-annone

Haven't seen much of the show. But it's pretty bad.

Set in Portland, a police detective finds out he is a "Grimm", meaning he has the power to see supernatural humanoid beings living among us. Basically humans that can "shapeshift" into a bunch of different kind of mythic creatures. These are inspired at first by the German/Nordic mythology, but seem to expand to other cultures/traditions. For some reason, apparently 1/3 of the population, ultimately, is "superantural". And noone seems to know it. At the same time, in an episode if I remember correctly a medical examiner does a test on a skin sample of one of these creatures, discovering its not entirely human and has special properties. But doesn't seem too bothered by it. Nor does anyone else for that matter.

Most annoying thing is: every single case that this detective has to investigate involves one of these beings. Every single one. For no apparent reason. Not that they are specifically appointed to him because of his powers. Nope. Just like that. All of Portland is plagued by these cases apparently. So this is the premise. The back story involves some global conspiracy I am not even sure I understood. Probably even the writers didn't really know what they were aiming at and might find some kind of development later on in the show.

Production wise, very low quality. And the acting is overall pretty weak, if not plainly bad.

If you are averagly reasonable and don't want to waste time with this garbage: avoid it.

Not sure if my review would be deemed as containing spoilers... Hope not. Anyways, the story seems to take place in a universe where vampires are unknown... which is somewhat kind of dumb all things considered. The main theme seems to revolve around the topic of death and deals with religious fanatism, more than anything else. My biggest problem is the ending. Surprising in some ways. But not very good... "Hope" was obviously personified by two young protagonists, which was a little predictable and lazy within the context of the narrative; and by two other characters of another religious faith, which in this day and age could be considered as a political stance really unnecessary.

Overall it is a good mini series. Nothing that I would qualify as horror. More of an emotional-fantasy, dialogue intensive series. I liked some of the characters, that are well depicted through a few long dialogues. And the acting was really good. Also, I appreciated the location and photography very much.

Its something worth watching if you haven't got anything more interesting to watch. Its just a shame that by mid series you kind of know where the whole thing is aiming. So the direction of the story, despite a few twists, becomes pretty clear and might get a bit predictable and boring. I gave it a 5 as, in my scale, its a decent "product", but wouldn't watch it again and it might not be something I would actually recommend. Mostly because 7 episode are far too many for the story told.

By far one of the most interesting police tv shows ever. Knew about it, its reputation and for being one of the first tv shows of the "new golden age of television". Never got the time to dig into it. Tried a few times, but the first episode of season 1 never really got into me. Finally, I dedicated some time to this series. Got to season 3 (by far the best one for me) and regret not having seen it before. By now, I must be one of the last persons on earth not to have seen it. So won't get into details of the plot, acting, locations etc... Just wanted to drop a review praising this great production to recomend it to anyone that hasn't seen it yet.

Everyone involved in this "show" should find a new occupation. Main character is bad, annoying, uninteresting and boring. The rest of the cast? Who cares. Nothing makes sense or can be described as enjoyable in this thing. Instead of zombies, you have vampires apparently for no reason other than they decided so. Apparently some vampires were there already before the events that unfold on episode 1. I don't even know or care. Got to episode 4 of season 1 but there is no reason whatsoever to watch this.

Should give it a 1/10, but they did manage to drag this thing for 5 seasons it seems. A few people did make a living out of this. So I guess some good came out of this trash...

I think I never gave a 1/10 to any show, ever. All have some merits. "You" is a totally different beast. And got to make a major spoiler to make my point. So if you want to try to give this show a shot, stop reading.

Just watched the first season and the begining of season 2 but had to stop. I couldn't stand the main character, "Joe" and the plot twists piling up went too far.

The whole story gravitates around this hideous Joe, a stalker-sociopath, that has nothing that could make him remotely likeable. He is obsessed with finding "the one true love". Pretty soon finds a "victim/target". And you are told that he had an ex girlfriend that misteriously disappeared. He has no particular "moral" pseudo-justification like Dexter (another character I cannot stand, but am not a fan of these types of shows in any way shape or form, so I might be biased).

However, it started in a pormising way. The "internal dialogues", the locations and the first few episodes seemed interesting. The fact that you are dealing with a seriously disturbed character becomes clear pretty fast. But you could still believe there might be some kind of evolution or redemption somewhere along the way. Soon enought the whole thing becomes pretty predictable and then you have the final episode of season 1, which tells a lot about how dumb the writers think the audience is.

During season 1, for a series of events both the main character and his new found love obsession end up going to the same therapist. The show hints that they actually talked estensively of their respective sentimental lives. The only difference in the narrative is that Joe, to "disguise" his identity, claims to be gay in a relationship with another man. However, a few scenes show that the stories the two tell the therapist are simmetrical. And the events of their love life totally match. How could the therapist not have any kind of hint that most likely the main character was lying on the identity of his partner?

The twist of the show unfortunately relies on this flaw in the story. After killing his girl friend, as expected, he manages to frame the therapist (its more nuanced, the girl friend actually helps him, but that is the bottom line). The therapist is a totally unaware moron? Really bad at his job? Horrible defence attorney? Or are we to believe that, being married, the guilt for being unfaithful is enought to wanting to spend the rest of his life in prison for murder? On top of that, no one is surprised by the number of disappearances and murders surrounding the main character?

Maybe I missed something, maybe the show answers these questions later on. I might never know. But that was too much for me. So, besides the oppressing atmosphere, the strong feeling of wanting to beat the living s*** out of Joe, the story unfortunately just falls apart.

1/10 because, besides hating everything about this "Joe" guy and the glorification of sociopaths, I feel the "framing the therapist" part is just far too weak to be believable.

Just finished watching this... Star Wars is dead. And fans killed it by endorsing this crap!

All the good memories from the original trilogy I had as a kid, all the misteries and secrets of a world too immense to imagine, have been definitely flushed down a stinking toilet. The second trilogy was disappointing, ruined the lore of the "force" and introduced ridiculous new characters. And the main characters were as glazed as a Calvin Klein commercial. The only thing that was interesting was the capital city planet of Coruscant. Then came the latest trilogy... so much was wrong about it.

But you had the series to enjoy! Or did you... After a cheap and empty Mandalorian, a ridiculous Boba Fett and a slow paced old school british drama like Andor, we get this, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Why bother, might you ask. Well, I thought, one of the most iconic and important characters of the original storyline, they can't mess this up as well. They got to give us something worth watching after all these failures. I mean, the whole Star Wars Universe is on the line!

The production is much better than the other series. But... forget all the mess in the plot of the story. Leia as a kid might as well been killed. She is as annoying as a dog barking at you right in the face. For the first few episodes, McGregor seemed to have a hard time getting back into character. But lets not waste time, the main issue is (spoiler): Obi-Wan could have killed Darth Vader! And he didn't for a sense of guilt! REALLY??? The whole Star Wars universe had to endure the evil of this perfectly evil Sith because of some unresolved sense of betrayal and/or guilt for "an old friend"!!! Again? Once was not enought? So, in the original movie that would have been the third time!!! That's it. Am done with this nonsense.

Star Wars is dead. Nothing can save it at this point. The last good memories are gone. There is no coming back from this crap.

It's a tv series Cohen brothers style: focused on a slow paced storytelling, with weird characters but little to no story backing it up. The first series is kind of interesting. But the ending makes no sense with no closure whatsoever. Forcing you to hope the second season has something better to offer.

I draged myself to the begining of the second season, but there is no point going on. The story is just boring as hell. Characters are not really likable. And the story doesn't seems to be aiming anywhere. Except maybe rapping up something that could have lasted two episodes?

Also, a lot of the action takes place in Europe, Luxembourg. Most of the locals are supposed to speak French? But they couldn't involve native speakers it seems. So you get these actors speaking a terrible French with heavy foreign accents and terrible pronunciation.

I give it a 4 as it can be interesting in some ways. But not worth the effort of seeing it to the end in my opinion. No wonder it didn't go beyond the second season.

First of all, not sure it can be qualified as a Sci-Fi. The main issue with the whole thing is the world depicted which is seriously unrealistic in whatever way you would want to look at it. Not sure the human kind could ever survive in the wild without sight, organize armies, fight battles or build villages. Human forward facing eyes are the way they are because we are "predators", and whitout our sight or the help of someone with it, we would just be fast food for any other animal in the wild. And these "survivors" don't seem to have developed any other sense in a way that would allow them to overcome such a deficiency. It's just as ridiculous as it sounds... A real shame considering that the cast and locations are awesome. But it's just too dumb to be taken seriously.

In short, this is a very bad version of The Road: same context, with decay of the human kind due to an inexplicable natural disaster. Some humans decide to remain human and live in organized and somewhat civilized communities, while others basically find it easier to behave like animals just to survive.

Its overall pretty bad: locations, story, acting, soundtrack (which one actually?), ending... Wonder why some of the actors, which ideally are pretty good, didn't quit the movie before it was done. The ending, however, is a bit more optimistic and gives a little more hope than The Road.

I think that 3 out of 10 is a generous mark for this movie. There are loads of better movies "exploring" the topic of the struggles of the human kind in an apocalyptic world. Even too many in my opinion. But this one is really not worth watching.

I watched the movie as I read here on IMDb that "An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunctions reveals something troubling." OK, I thought, good cast, Denzel usually doesn't let me down and waited for more than 100 mins to see if something would actually happen. But nothing... It turns out that the whole theme of the movie was just alcohol abuse. As a south European, I always have a hard time understanding whats the problem with alcohol abuse in the US, why people cant just enjoy a drink from time to time. On top of that, there are some hints of other drugs abuse, but it seems that for some reason the producers think that smoking isn't that bad after all (I'm a smoker so I can relate to that... LOL).

That said, the movie is very well made, nice photography, nice scenes, good acting. But 130 something minutes to get to the conclusion that alcohol is bad... well I wouldn't have watched it if only I knew. Pity for the misleading description of the movie.

As for the rest, some characters don't seem to really have a real impact on the story or the main character. They are just there probably to give a little flavour to an otherwise pointless movie.

So I give it a 4 as it doesn't deserve less in my opinion; the packaging is very well made. But I really do not see the point of crafting such a huge context just to express this kind of message. The guy could have been a taxi driver. For the sake of clarity, in my scale 4 is crap with some merits, but not to be suggested to anyone.

First things first: technically the movie is well made, besides the acting. As usual American "products" are super nicely done, with nice special effects and great monsters... As for the acting, its a little below average I would say. Especially Jim Caviezel, he has to stop acting like if he was Clint Eastwood all the time. Dude, your not half the actor he is, so quit it.

That said, I like sci-fi and I usually know it requires some kind of acceptance of the context created by the authors. In this case, its too far below acceptable. Basically, there is an outer space dude (no mention that he is from the future, but it seems he is from a far far away world), that crashes on earth in 700 AD, with a "prisoner beast", I think I understood... that caused the crash by the way. No mention as to where he comes from, why he is so human and yet so technologically advanced, whats the story with his apparently ruthless civilization, etc... So you just got to accept that this is the situation besides all kind of reasonable questions that apparently just don't matter.

But then comes the story which reminds of (I assume, and hope at this point, intentionally) Beowulf. So nothing new under the sun, including the ending. I fast forwarded most of the final combat and looked eagerly for the few final dialogues for clues as to the what and why of the whole thing. But sadly with no success.

So I give it a 2/10 for the effort. Thanks guys, but your story makes no sense. Its not even entertaining anymore, so much stuff just thrown in for the sake of making... something.

Time travel movies are always messy because of all the paradoxes involved, which are most of the time little or poorly explained. In this case nada... The action takes place in a future, the context of which is not explained at all. Usual decay, tecnologically recycled cars and stuff all over (except for a ridiculous motorbike), and time travel, which does not yet exist, but will shortly, and would be used only by organized crime to send back people to be killed in the past (????????). Wont comment this part (which is pretty difficult considering its the whole theme of the movie, but its really so idiotic I better just leave it to that).

On top of that, there are some genetically "evolved" individuals that have telekinetic powers. Why? Who knows, but they exist and apparently peacefully coexist with the rest of the population.

So the plot manages to put together these two elements without any kind of explanation. I call it plot, but would need to apologies. As in the end I cant really see one. It seems more of a pretext to give Bruce Willis a job and make some money out of an audience for which the producers probably have very little respect for.

I give it a 2/10 as the "product" itself is watchable. But wouldn't recommend it to anyone.