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I suppose written as a general synopsis, this movie could be sweet and believable. A sheltered woman with a haunted past gets reintegrated into society, and a guy that helps her learns about himself and they end up falling in love. Doesn't sound too bad.

This movie, on the other hand, made these characters completely impossible to root for. The guy is a hugely entitled jerk who is overall a horrible person. No redeeming qualities except for occasionally caring A TINY BIT when the woman is having a meltdown.

She, on the other hand, acts like a woman with the mental capacity of a 10 year old. She borders on mentally challenged for much of the movie, to the point where it feels genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Clearly this guy is taking advantage of her for his own benefit. He even talks her into stuff by treating her like a 5 year old.

After knowing most of her story and having dragged her to a wedding across the country, the guy literally abandons her in a bus station. But because he feels bad and comes back hours and hours later, it's all good! Forgiven!

From beginning to end, the plot was absurd, the characters out of place, and zero logic was present. Save yourself the time.

There are some parts of this special that are funny, but he makes multiple jokes about how he mailed it in because Netflix already paid him and overall that rings true.

Most of the show is a seemingly drunken rant. He's funny sometimes, laughing himself silly sometimes, but what he is doing 100% of the time is repeating the word "right" every 5 seconds. I couldn't stand it. 95% of sentences end with right, or are injected with "right" 2-3 times in the middle.

I'm sorry, but as a comedian whose job is speaking to a crowd, this extraordinarily annoying verbal tick just kills it for me. If you can't deliver a joke without saying "right" 10 times, what are you doing!? I assumed it's because he's drinking and also because he's just mailing it in and ranting on stage for some money from Netflix.

Some parts are laugh out loud, but they are few and far between. I think his points about being a comedian that can joke about everything were generally spot on, and that cancel culture with comedians has gone too far. He just wasn't generally all that funny around those good points.

This a very serious topic that I was very happy to see someone made a documentary on. However, it was a really terrible "film." It's like someone got a drone and a right to some good music, and made a 40 minute trailer/montage.

It was so disjointed with zero depth. They even had some great stories in front of them, but didn't follow any of them in any coherent way. What's worse, there was zero exploration of the causes or what can be done.

It was like a trailer for a more in depth documentary series where they dive into the situation, but there isn't a series. It's just this. I genuinely don't know if this helps or hurts the problem of homelessness.

These reviews are obviously fake. I love Martin Short and Steve Martin, but this show is bad. I like them in it, but Selena Gomez is seriously the worst actress I've ever seen. She is a so very boring in every scene with no expression and no intonation in her voice. Initially I thought it was supposed to be a joke but it never got any better at all. There is no chemistry between them and her.

Then the story itself is not very compelling. It's too slow.

Season 1 is amazing. It was hilarious, good character development, and most importantly had characters you could like. Lil Dicky's schtick about being a non traditional rapper from a good upbringing was well handled.

Season 2 is almost impossible to watch. All characters become deeply unlikeable, worst of all Dave. He becomes extremely narcissistic, condescending, and instead of it being self aware it's just embarrassing (almost like he's proud of being this way). He becomes a very annoying diva that can't even make the music he claims to be amazing at. Sadly, I think it's pretty clear this is just how he is as a real person since everyone is still waiting on his next album. I now can't hear his music without thinking of this extremely unlikeable character and it's ruined both the show and the music for me.

This whole special was tedious to watch. Every joke was exactly the same, to the point that the shock wore off in just a few minutes.

Even worse, his arrogant genius shtick was just too cringe to watch. If part of your stand up comedy is telling people they should have laughed at how brilliant that joke just was, you're doing something wrong.

Honestly, stripping away the intense cockiness, I took those moments to mean that he was trying his best and if you didn't like it he didn't know what else to do. That rang very true. Maybe he was giving his best, but unfortunately his best just wasn't very good.

I really liked the show overall. They didn't really start with the "we don't know what happens last this point" thing until towards the end, so I wasn't super disappointed that it wasn't really resolved.

However, some basic things definitely bothered me: 1) Why was Lily special? At all? She was such a wooden character that whole time and things just seemed to happen around her. They even show a scene with her playing chess to foreshadow she's potentially playing advanced strategy but....no. She does nothing really and never knows what's happening.

2) As others have pointed out, the most frustrating thing of all was simply: why did people not try to do something different? The implication seemed to be they built this machine and instantly followed it exactly. Perhaps there was a reason, but I wish they had just showed us some basic things like... simulation says I go left when leaving, and I try to go right. Instead, out of nowhere Lily just tossed the gun like "LOLOL why have you guys been following this?" It felt frustrating and nonsensical.

3) Last but not least, this is just a virtual game system now? I understand the computer is supposed to be super powerful and the world in there is indistinguishable etc. That idea is very cool. Are we in a simulation? But then.... because two characters died, they can just get inserted into it?? Why had nobody tried to insert themselves before? How is there any control? So many questions.

At the end of the day perhaps that's the point. Leave you feeling confused and asking questions. Overall beautifully shot, good music, cleverly written for most except those gaping holes at the end.

This show is too tedious. It started off interesting with the idea that the logical conclusion of our current society is a huge religion versus non religion war that ruins the planet. Interesting concept. What I never thought about is that if you create characters based on these extremes, it's insufferable. They created two groups of people who are both at opposite ends of the spectrum and completely unlikable.

The rest of the reviews highlight the flaws with how incapable the androids, technology are. It's frustrating. The story is super slow, and it's semi going somewhere interesting (I'm up to episode 4) but I just don't care. You have nobody to root for and the story is so spread out and all over the place, I doubt I'm going to make it any further.

The show started off pretty interesting. It was a novel concept and most of the fascination was seeing what they were going to do with the characters. Lucifer just owning that he was the devil was funny and unexpected.

The first two seasons were good, but season 3 and onwards was terribly boring. It also became obvious how insanely formulaic this show is - almost every single one of the cases had the same pattern: the first "unsuspecting" person they interview is the one who did it. They literally do this in every single episode. It's exhausting and pointless.

This would all be moderately forgivable (although the laziness is just impressive) if it weren't for the fact that the over arching story is just boring. It was front loaded with the whole "I'm the devil" stuff, and then little to nothing happening on that front for 3 seasons. Then at the end of season 3, the detective sees her face and then they tack on two useless episodes after that.

Lastly, they just do a really bad job developing any sort of world. Any of the God stuff is unbelievably inconsistent - you come to find out somehow all the angels are completely in the dark about "gods plan" and nobody has any idea of what's going on. Also, there powers are never really fleshed out and it's basically just whatever is convenient for the story.

I like Lucifer's character, and there are some decent supporting characters but if I could go back in time I'd stop after the 2nd season. I thought Netflix would save it with the 4th season but again, same exact formula. They amp up the main story which is definitely an improvement (mainly because it's 10 episodes not 26) but still the same old show.

I really tried to like this but Kerry Washington is unwatchable. She is so so so unlikeable in every scene. Just the personality of an angry wall. Always looks like she's about to cry. It got very hard to take by episode 3. I think all of this could be fixed with a good story, but all the plot lines are very boring so there's nothing keeping you hanging on. I had to just stop watching.

The first season was great - fascinating concept, nice twist, great characters. Season two was pretty good - see more behind the curtains, some character development, relationship stuff.

Season 3+4 are just so boring. It takes forever to figure out what the problem is and by the time they try and address it or escape from whatever situation they're in, it's really hard to care anymore. It's super repetitive with almost no meaningful development.

I like Quentin Tarantino enough - I liked Django Unchained for example. This movie however was one of the worst if not the worst movies I've ever seen.

The first two hours are almost literally pointless. Completely pointless. I didn't know the Manson family background beforehand so I was even more confused (0 story telling).

The last 30 minutes are absurdly over the top ridiculous. Did I need to see Brad Pitt bash a young girls face in ... Over and over and over and over and over? So gratuitous for no reason.

Worst of all that past the two hour mark I didn't even care what happened. Does someone get murdered? Does something crazy happen? Who cares? I didn't care about the characters at all and there was no story or buildup. Tarantino's solution? Complete over the top brutality for 10 minutes. Cool.

Laziest writing I've ever seen in my life with literally zero effect on the viewer except disgust. Certainly will never see another Tarantino movie again because those are 2.5 hours I already regret losing in my life.

This is probably the most disappointing wrap up of a show I've ever seen. This movie was bizarre, mostly boring, and not at all true to the show.

Instead of really continuing with the character development we have gotten used to, it introduced a random case with an outsider police department. The flashbacks were funny a few times, but it just became a ridiculous caricature of the show.

To wrap it up there's literally zero suspense about her decision to stay - some guy comes in and offers her a job and she says yes sounds good. Then everyone cheers for her. So rushed and ridiculous given 3 seasons of building it up.

I loved season 1. Everything was done right, all leading up to a spectacular ending. What a ride!

Season 2... What is the point? Just like the characters, I wish they hadn't lied about the murder. It would have saved a lot of time and maybe they could have talked about something more interesting. I just don't care what the outcome is at all - at this point I hope they all go to jail! So many of the characters are just unsympathetic and stuck up, it gets exhausting to watch after awhile.

If you want to see want to see some rich privileged people worry internally about a dumb lie they told to cover up clear self defense, season 2 is for you.

Additionally, for those claiming it isn't clear self defense - I don't even care. I would much prefer a season of them fighting that legal battle or even showing Bonnie in jail and the drama that would happen around all of that. That would be infinitely more interesting than season 2. Right now it feels more like they taped some people's lives between filming of the first and real second season. Just all boring filler with no end goal.

Edit: after watching the season finale, wow. It's as bad as I thought. They leave it as a cliff hanger that they will confess... Literally what I thought the season should have started with. Really, who cares at this point?

The first season of Legion is one of my favorite seasons of television ever. It balanced itself perfectly in so many different ways. Scary but not too scary. Mysterious but not frustratingly so (always had a very strong storyline). Creative and musical but never so much that you lost interest or were annoyed.

It was awesome. Then came season 2. I binged into it from season 1 so I was riding high and had high expectations. Slowly but surely it all came crashing down. The show steadily and surely crossed all those lines I mentioned before. Became so mysterious it was hard to ever know what was going on (which was exhausting and boring), it got so creative that it was pretentious and nonsensical, and the scariness wasn't really there.

Overall the biggest problem was the story - the first season was amazing and brilliantly balanced. The second was just a lot of random nonsense that was hard to care about.

As others have said, this went way too long and became rather boring. They could have cut off the last 2-3 episodes and it would have been just as interesting. My biggest gripe with this show was the extremely frustrating inconsistencies:

Murder mountain is a lawless outlaw place where they make their own law and violent murders happen regularly ---> Garrett gets murdered and it shakes the community, so they beg and complain about law enforcement not helping. What?

They are the pioneers of weed growing, supply majority of the weed in the US market, and there are people flocking there to make buckets of money ---> legalization comes along and none of them can afford any of the permitting fees and testing fees. Boo hoo it's putting farms out of business (farms that haven't paid taxes in potentially decades). Where did the money go? Didn't want to use it to pay taxes? Why are all these people living like poor people in the first place if this was such a thriving black market?

Aside from those, the show just did a horrible job outlining any of the details or really telling a coherent story. If I were to piece the chaotic story they told together, the Alderpoint 8 got the body and confession, the alleged killer went to the hospital where he was questioned about his wounds, then he disappeared never to be seen again. Half the time the documentary spent implying the police didn't do anything (meanwhile the guy was gone and couldn't be found), and half the time it kept suggesting he could maybe at some point be convicted by evidence (despite again, being gone).

They also did a just horrible job at really explaining anything about the actual community/economy there. Are there 15 farmers? Are there 1500? Is there a town of non weed growers that wants nothing to do with the weed growers? Do they really make a lot of money? I still don't know after watching this.

Overall it started off painting these people as violent outlaws, then expected shock that someone was murdered (on "murder mountain") then hoped for sympathy for small farms that couldn't afford to go legal (after many years being illegal). It just felt like a jumble of story lines with zero consistent narrative and frankly at the end of the day, these people were doing shady illegal things and they knew it. Now it's becoming legal and some want to resist it, but overall it's improving the safety of the community. Great. Did you need 6 hours to say that?

This is one of the hardest types of movies for me to review, because I think it succeeded in what it wanted to do - making an unsettling movie to bring attention to an important situation. In that, it succeeded, but in being a movie I would ever recommend or watch again? I certainly wouldn't.

This is a very real depiction of a depressing life situation in Mississippi which heavily focuses on racism. Like many other serious but devastating situations, I of course am aware of them and think they're important to address, but would not volunteer to watch it take place. This movie was very hard to watch as you just truly felt the dread and the pain of the black family from beginning to end. The amount of times that the father has to just say yes and go along simply because he's black is just stomach turning.

Unfortunately, there really isn't any hero here. It's a hard watch with a hard ending. Where you will crave justice for the mistreated black family (like in Django Unchained), you simply get a mildly satisfactory murder of the racist grandfather who was asking for it the whole time. I think this would have been a lot more satisfying had "pappy" been the only one to attack Ronsel and cut out his tongue, but alas it was a group of racist people in KKK outfits. So at the end are you happy that he died? Of course. However it feels hollow because they made it so blatantly obvious that there is so much more hatred out there and that their lives didn't change at all. It also could have just as easily been an angry son murdering a horrible father.

I know this is history, and not fiction, so it's not like I expected some switch to be flipped and everyone accepts everyone else. Just be warned if you're sitting down excited for a good movie, this is good in that it succeeds in being disturbing. I did walk away from it with a deeper understanding of the pain of living in those times, and it compels me to do more now. This is obviously good. But as a movie, it's a really rough experience - if you know that going in hopefully you'll be prepared.

I want to write this review because there aren't any other in depth user reviews that shed a light on how bad this movie is. I really wanted to like it, but perhaps I'm the wrong demographic?

I think the goal of this movie was to display that life as an elite athlete shelters you in certain ways, and that the single mindedness that comes along with attaining such a big goal can cause you to miss a lot of things. While I guess it portrayed that... it was WAY too extreme and WAY too little about sports (or maybe just the rest of her life leading up to this few day window that the movie was in).

I get that the idea was to look at how she has a chance to examine her life on her day off, but the whole plot was just so unbelievable starting with Plum herself. They wrote her as virtually mentally challenged, and I'm not exaggerating. They dropped really weird hints all over the place, like her constantly using coloring books, the boyfriend guy asking if she was 15, and a few other very childish scenes. Again, I think this was to demonstrate that she was sheltered, but it left my wife and I debating the whole movie if this girl was developmentally challenged and it would eventually come out as part of the story.

However, by the end, it became much more clear that it was the writing in the movie. The dialogue was atrocious. Gems like "How did you know I was here?" "Uh, I don't know."

The movie was also mostly in single syllable answers between the characters, which also made me think that everyone was treating her as mentally disabled. I mean, the amount of times they tried to possibly say something emotional and instead said "Sad" or "happy" was astounding. Again, I thought this was a commentary on her poor ability to understand and interpret the world due to her developmental problems.

The story was also extremely ridiculous that this was packed into ONE day before the national finals race. Why? Wouldn't this have been much better if they met a few weeks before, the boy became a distraction, and you can see how her life isn't normal and how this is a huge dilemma for her?

Instead, you get a guy that she has a crush on - she gets the courage to talk to him, and it goes from that to we're having sex for the very first time....in like 24 hours. Why? It even included really insanely stupid drama based on the time line, like her saying she had to go stretch and them having an argument MULTIPLE times about how she needs to relax and live life and just BE with him. They have been "together" for A DAY. How in the world would all this drama happen in a day? Is she insane? Is he a mentally unstable stalker? What is the deal?

This also made watching the scenes between them extremely unbearable because you almost got the impression that someone was taking advantage of a person who had the mind of a child. She would just regularly look bewildered, say nothing, and he would push her towards being more intimate.

There's socially awkward, quirky, etc and then there's just mentally not there. This was the latter. It made it from endearing charming sheltered person finding out about life, to omg is this person being taken advantage of? Has she been brainwashed to be a running machine by her father? Is this boy just recognizing she's slow and trying to get in her pants?

There was also the whole drama with the family, again...why? I get the point of it all in the larger story, but why in the world was this packed into two days before the biggest race of her career so far? The dad cleans out the house based on one sentence Plum says when she's crying? He disrupts her whole environment a day before the race? I thought his life was her and her running career!

Then there's the mom. There is one line that gives you an idea that she's aware of the situation when she says "I thought it would be nice to have a mom with this stressful race coming up" or something similar. Which is great, at least that explains a little bit about why she pops up. But she pops up like FOUR times in two days and ultimately imposes on the family dynamic and causes a bunch of drama RIGHT before this big race. Does nobody care that this girl has trained her whole life for this?

For all of these reasons, I just can't recommend watching this movie. I was a high school track runner on a state championship team, and so I get to some degree what it's like in that world. That's why I watched this movie. However I think it's insulting to anyone who IS an elite level runner (I wasn't) that as a result of this decision you are now so mentally/socially repressed that you come across as a middle school child.

While I overall liked this episode, there was one thing that really took me out of it and made the final death hard to stomach.

They've discovered that Barry and Savitar share their memories, great. They come up with the genius idea to NOT tell Barry where they're hiding Iris because if he knows then Savitar knows. All is good with the plan, and I was left thinking wow how can Savitar find Iris on Earth-2?!

Well how Savitar finds out is the most illogical part of the whole episode. Barry and Captain Cold get the power source and Barry supposedly speeds into star labs to let them know he was successful. He asks how things are going, and HR just IMMEDIATELY BLURTS OUT that Iris is safe on Earth-2 with Harrison Wells.

Then gasp, they discover it's not Barry it's Savitar. Uh oh!

WHAT?! They play it off the rest of the episode like oh it was a mistake any of us could make, we were tricked, etc. But that makes zero sense. Even if they thought it was Barry, literally the whole plan was don't tell Barry where Iris is because then Savitar knows. So HR's mistake was forgetting the whole plan and just yelling the location of the one person they're supposed to protect? Was that really what they were getting at? Are they trying to say the whole plot is contingent on one person just being a complete idiot?

It was hard to watch the rest after this. All of it could have possibly been easy to prevent, just don't tell Savitar or Barry where Iris is.

This hole in logic unfortunately threw me down the rabbit hole of other obvious ways they could have saved Iris:

1) they discover in this exact episode that ARGUS has a massive facility where there is A POWER DAMPENER. Lyla seems like she wants to help but didn't want to give away really dangerous tech. Why not put Iris in the building and let them protect her? Savitar wouldn't have his powers. Even better, pick the same building on another earth. Good luck finding that!

2) Why not take Iris ANYWHERE else? Cisco can open a portal to anywhere in any universe. I mean come on. Talk about a needle in a haystack. How about a super secret base in super high tech universe that Barry doesn't even know about? Then don't tell him. Even if you accidentally blurted it out he wouldn't know exactly where it is.

Overall I think the build up to this episode was great, and the season plot is great. I also think killing Iris is the right move so we really feel like wow they can't fix this. But if they just used a little more logic for how Savitar found her, this would have been perfect. I was more than willing to accept the whole philosopher stone stops the bazooka thing just not how she was found.

I was pretty disappointed in this movie, and I'm not really sure why. There were definitely some funny parts where I laughed, but the whole thing felt pretty....forced. Harry and Lloyd felt like exaggerated versions of themselves, the storyline was just OK, and I think what threw me off the most was that so much of the movie was recycled.

I mean, you wait this long for a sequel to an absolutely classic movie, you start wondering what brilliance they must be cooking up. However, a LOT of the jokes were literally the same as the ones from the original, like exactly the same. They also tried to recreate similar scenes, they even used a lot of the same soundtrack. While some may see this as nostalgia, I saw it as lazy film making.

I also didn't particularly like the silliness. The first movie had some random very silly parts that in context of the rest of the genuinely funny parts didn't bother me at all. However, this movie seemed to be made up of entirely ridiculous scenes. Almost cartoon like in the way it was done. Not a fan. It reminded me a little of the three stooges movie.

Overall, just not worth going to the movies to see. It's a shame Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels waited this long just to put out something so mediocre.

If it weren't for the very bad reviews on here, I would probably make this a 6/10, but I think this movie is worth a watch...casually on Netflix or some other free form.

Did I love this movie? No. Not the best movie around, but I love Colin Hanks and the premise looked really interesting. It was rather slow moving at points, and as others mentioned, the characters can be annoying.

However, Lucy being a very annoying character was actually planned perfectly. At first I hated it, but once it played into her manipulating Ben, and how that dynamic just seemed incredibly realistic, I really felt what they were going for. It REALLY hit me when she witnessed the first murder though. You could see her character as this zany annoying girl who just manipulated into a marriage she didn't want just for some money, and then she walks into this nightmare and she realizes.

The battle between wanting to stay with a rich husband, and processing the murder is just a brilliant couple of scenes. She is zoned out, but slowly chooses to help her husband and try to live with it, but you can tell she isn't coping that well (who would!?). But every additional display of money is just edging her towards just dealing with it and enjoying a lavish lifestyle.

Also Colin Hanks was great as the serial killer, and the craziness with imagining Lucy all over was really well done. He also was believable in the way that he just snaps and kills and then kind of comes back to reality.

This episode wasn't too bad as a whole. Unlike most of the other episodes these days, this one didn't have me shaking my head when things just started getting silly or illogical. There were certainly a few moments that made me stop and think....but why?....but not nearly as many as the earlier episodes in this season.

Things I liked:

The doctor playing against himself was really interesting, and allowed Matt Smith to really do some fascinating acting

The plot was pretty cool, liked the abandoned worlds biggest amusement park, and upgraded cybermen

Good solid performance for Clara, a strong role where she really seemed to come into her own

Things I disliked:

The kids were definitely annoying

The fact that the Cybermen just instantly adapted to...anything. I get that they are smarter, better, and upgrade themselves to adjust, making them the ultimate weapon...I LOVE this idea...but it just seemed too much when they just insta-upgrade for literally anything. At least give them some time to regroup, instead of just power through everything.

I don't know why the emperor didn't just get them all beamed up in the first place. If all he had to do was say some words, and the bomb would be activated and they would all be beamed up to the main ship safely....uh, why not do that in the beginning? I get he didn't want to be emperor, but really? Let people die? Put plenty of people in danger? All because he didn't want to be the most powerful man in the universe? Idk, just seemed like a silly wrap up that had no real explanation of why he didn't just do that immediately

The only reason this episode gets some points is because the world that was created was very interesting, and I was happy to be back in such a bizarre and far off place.

That being said...seriously? Did the episode really end like that?

The whole....this is a huge planet monster thing, OK, I was willing to accept that. Then there's the inevitable, oh no...the Doctor has no plan and seems to be facing an impossibly powerful enemy. Pretty standard at this point. The joy is in seeing how he gets out of it.

When he started offering up his memories and his experiences I figured OK, this is possible. He has seen a ridiculous amount of things, experiences, etc etc. Fine, I accept this shorts out the huge demon planet.

BUT THEN.... No. It doesn't. The planet comes back, so apparently everything The Doctor said about his experiences and history and memories was just useless. All of that did not satisfy this monster planet... so what will?

A leaf. Really? Really? I just can't believe it. This random object that has a back story much luck any other object might, apparently defeats the monster because of the infinite possibilities of what might have happened to her mother? Give me a break.

I felt like I was watching a play, and the main actor forgot the lines, and someone just jumped in with some random object trying to bring focus on that...and the main actor looks at it and just goes, uhhh, yes! yes! Exactly! This great object will save us all!

Also seemed like improv in that regard. Just unbelievably unnecessary, a "twist" that didn't need to happen and made this just a positively dumb episode. Instead of making the doctors history and memories this awe inspiring gigantic thing, it made it seem like oops no, not that big just kidding... but here is a LEAF.

This was one of the more disappointing episodes of Doctor Who in awhile. I don't even really know why. With all the new characters, character development has to be a huge part of these episodes...but it wasn't at all for this one.

I still can't wrap my head around Matthew Smith. I miss David Tenant. His personality is so different, and he is just so young looking. I'm sure as with David, I will get used to him and probably end up liking him, but right now it just feels like an entirely different show.

This is one of the only episodes that I stopped in the middle, and picked up the next day. Usually I want to finish, but the contrived plot line of Doctor surprised by Daleks....it's just getting a bit old. I feel like every other episode the Daleks pop up as the main enemy.

However that is fine as long as it's done well, but I almost turned off the episode again when the Doctor started begging the android to feel human emotions. I'm sorry, there have been some lame story arcs along this line in the past, but really? Feel like a human and that will prove your humanity and stop this bomb?! No explanation, no logic, just some gushy feeling about being a human. Way way way too forced.

I still haven't made up my mind about this change in the show, but so far I don't feel compelled to watch it. Especially since RTDs reign ended with the Lord of the Timelords coming back, I mean come on, what else can they think of? Hopefully some good things as the show is still running.

I am honestly SHOCKED to see all these negative reviews. I am somewhat used to seeing a well rated movie and finding out it sucked, but NEVER have I seen a poorly rated movie and thought it was good.

I mean 5.9? Seriously!? Anything in the 5's on IMDb is just terrible. So many reviews rate this a 1 star, and I expected a bad movie going into it. But it was absolutely fine!

First of all, the plot. Many people are ripping on it saying it was terrible. I am not an easy person to satisfy in terms of 'wow this just doesn't make sense' and that really takes me out of the movie, but this plot was about as good as I could expect from a GI Joe movie.

All Joes are eliminated because there is an imposter president...OK great, very interesting premise. We find out it's zartan, again, great...it's a big enemy of the Joes. The 3 Joes left manage to mount an investigation, they solve the whole Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes thing, and there are plenty interesting twists.

For example, when the president launches the nukes, and all the other countries are shocked...that was a brilliant move! So he self destructs and they all have to follow suit. A weapon system designed around gravity delivering a huge rod into the ground? Also brilliant. No fallout.

Even the scene where Bruce Willis falls down the stairs looking like a cobra agent, just to turn and shoot the other two...brilliant!

And for people complaining about Channing Tatum dying early, I mean come on... it just shows how serious the movie is. They ACTUALLY killed the captain. They also ACTUALLY blew up London. How many movies do you sit through thinking...well who cares what happens, they won't actually do anything.

This was well thought out, and contained all the action one could possibly handle. I found myself engaged throughout, and wondering how they were going to end up stopping the commander. Also, all the special effects were great! There was only like 1 or 2 times where I felt they over did it, other than that it was great quality.

The only things that I could see being annoying to people is that A)you are a die hard GI Joe fan and things didn't follow the story you wanted (including continuation from first movie) B)you saw this movie for Channing Tatum (whose death was a necessary set up) C) you just don't like action movies.

Seriously, I think they really did great on this sequel, and while 8 is possibly a bit high (I would really give it a 7), I just have to do something to balance out the ridiculous 5.9 this has right now.