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This is a liberal director and writers smearing lies on Texas.

The movie tries to paint Texas as wilderness, populated by murderous redneck crazies.

The movie is the opposite of the real life!

In fact, Texas is the 2nd most populated state in USA.

If a car with a woman pops a tire in Texas, people will be stopping and lining up to help fix the tire, without kidnapping, nor murdering the woman!

Texas produces more oil and gas than any state in the USA, the idea that Texas towns, no matter how small will be out of gas is ludicrous!

Kids in Texas go to schools.

Young people in Texas go to colleges and become doctors, artists, engineers, etc...

I couldn't make myself finish the movie or this review would be even longer with absurd inaccuracies.

Although it may not seem like it, the movie presents a view on everything that is wrong with the modern feminism.

Emilie has lived her life consumed by her father living and mother committing suicide over it. She has not married and doesn't have children. Now in her early 40s at death's door, she has no one to comfort her. She turns to the only person left in her life, her sister Ines. Ines has made difficult choices to move on with her life and not be consumed by the drama of her childhood and teenage years. Ines has a career, though just as Emilie, there doesn't appear to have a family. In her last days, Emilie rages against the "injustice" of life, though most of the things that have happened are the results of her own choices. Since Ines is the only person around, most of the rage is directed at Ines. Emilie blames Ines as much as possible, for not being more "helpful" with the suicidal and emotionally unstable mother, for loosing touch over he years, for Emilie not achieving more in her life and for Ines achieving more than Emilie has. The movie ends with Emilie dying with no one but Ines by her side. She disappears from Earth as if she was never there. No trace, no lasting memory will be left of her.

I wasn't expecting much of this movie. Thought I'd give it a chance and stop when it becomes boring.

So, by pure accident, I have stumbled on a movie that has a plot, science fiction that entertains without constant explosions, time travel that actually connects, a twist ending and an overall good time.

The movie exercised my brains instead of blasting my eyes and ears with explosions. A creative script that makes sense reminded me that in today's movie making industry there is still some spark of creativity.

Things continuously align against all odds just to continue the story line.

A ship full of people in their early 20s is on it's way somewhere. This appears to be a commercial flight. Not a single person above 25 is allowed on board apparently cause they are too old to be damsels in distress. And no children cause that would not be cool to kill off children later.

There is 1 young person who knows how the entire spaceship works. We don't have anyone understanding everything about our current ships today but in the future the technology must get simpler...

The space wizard tinkers with the ship to make it go faster. The ship goes berserk and flies them to who knows where and breaks down. Fortunately, there is a planet with an atmosphere nearly identical to Earth right next to where the ship is. Ummm... you have better odds winning the lottery about 3 times in a row than that happening. In other words this is impossible!

As it turns out the planet also has some intelligent life, though more primitive. Another lottery won right there!

The humans have already discovered this planet and there is a human army on it exterminating the natives. Another 2 lotteries!

One of the women manages to establish some sort of rapport with the natives. Cause she is the designated damsel I guess. All the others are killed cause they are not quite enough.

At some point, the damsel and a man run side by side. You can clearly see that the damsel is a bit out of shape and is visibly slower than the guy who is in better shape than her. The male actor has to run really S..L..O..W to fit the script. This ends with the man begging the damsel to leave him and save herself cause he just can't keep up.

The space wizard fixes the ship only to be killed immediately after.

The ship takes off with 2 surviving women. They attract attention from a military vessel. The soldier comes on board and scans everything. His scan is able to reveal that one woman is injured and her leg is broken but somehow, his scan of a dead soldier in a suit fails to pick up the fact that there is a live woman (damsel) in that suit. Even today's scanners would be able to show that there is a warm body in the suit. Boy these future humans really made a lot of steps backwards in their tech!

Anyway, the women kill the soldier and leave in his ship. The end! Thank goodness this is over!

This show has absolutely no historical accuracy what so ever.

The clothing, the customs, attitudes are nothing like what Rome was.

It make make for an entertaining adventure but I hope no one tries to learn history of Roman empire and culture from this garbage.

An unexpected gem IMHO. The movie is full of funny moments that made me laugh out loud. The acting is good, though the cast is filled with people are less than famous themselves. But I figure if they movie scored Clooney or Damon, it would be a blockbuster. Anyway, great movie! I liked it and I recommend it.

From the moment Disney purchased Star Wars, I thought they will ruin it. And so they have in a spectacularly bad cliche filled Rise of Skywalker.

Supposedly, Star Wars is Science Fiction. That is not actually true. Star Wars was never big on Science, in fact, it was poor on Science. But at least Star Wars used to be big on the Fiction part. Now, Rise of Skywalker has poor Fiction and the Science in it is even worse than prior Star War films. So, take poor Science, add poor Fiction and what do you get? - A poor movie. One cliche, follows another, thank goodness the movie is almost over!

P.S. To all storm troopers: Glad to see those aim to miss courses you took in college paid off!

I figure i'll review this in levels of involvement. I believe it is bad on all the levels.

First, lets start with the most basic. Lets assume you haven't read the books, nor particularly interested in fantasy and only watched it for action. Yes, Matthew McConaughey is probably the best of this movie as he acts out the evil bad dude with just the right touch of malice mixed with indifference towards his victims. But that comprises about 2 minutes of the movie. Anyway, the actual action is not horrible but I'd say doesn't live up to the modern day fantasy standards set by X-Men, Dr. Strange and other various action and fantasy movies. So, bottom line, action wise this is a pass.

Secondly, lets say you are more of a fantasy buff who is interested in the story and mythology but hasn't read the books. Well, this movie is then even a bigger disappointment as it only spends about 5 minutes total introducing characters and perhaps 2 more minutes explaining the mythology of the tower, gunslinger, the wizard, etc... Bottom line, there is no story here.

Thirdly, if you have read the Dark Tower books... Oh, boy... This is the biggest disappointment of all. Most of the books characters are simply absent. The few that are present are so in name only but are completely different characters from what's in the books. I'd go as far as to say there is may be 1 character from the books present in the movie and it's the Wizard. Bottom line: no characters, no story, no plot twists, nothing like the books.

To sum up, a big disappointment on all levels.

That was a wonderful, must see movie! It was very refreshing to see a movie not about special effects and explosions but about the depth of human feeling and creativity. The acting was outstanding, spot on! I could really feel all the characters and their personality. The story is full of beauty, sadness, wonder, amazement and love. A very touching movie.

This maybe the worst monster movie of all time. Wait... is Sharknado a monster movie? Well, it doesn't really matter, cause this is probably worse than Sharknado.

The story is absolutely ridiculous. It started of ok, somewhat plausible but as the movie went on, it quickly deteriorated into more and more absurd.

There is a female lead, a photographer. She is clearly there to be the female heroine and save save the day. But there is absolutely no thought as to how she should do it. This makes her role, her lines stupid to the extreme. Three people walk onto a wild island and see a giant monkey. The military guy says "lets kill it". The scientist guy says "lets study it". The female photographer heroine says "this is crazy, stop". Somehow, everyone listens to the photographer who has no survival skills, no military skills and no scientific knowledge. She didn't even say anything, didn't even give any instruction on what to do but everybody stops arguing, after all "it's crazy". Now, since the argument is over and she didn't propose any farther topics of discussion, what does the movie do? Well, why not just cut to the next scene with a shot of the giant monkey.

Oh yeah, lets not forget that Kong is indestructible. It can not be killed by bullets, nor explosives, nor burn in fire. Even it's fur doesn't burn in fire, much less skin.

Listen, and understand! That Kong is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until this movie is awful!

This is a one of those typical movies that is supposed to appeal to teenagers. The main hero is misunderstood by everyone, even other teens who are supposed to be his friends. He is also the most important person alive. Somehow, he is the only one who can save the entire human race. He has major memory holes in his mind, yet somehow he is the only one capable of understanding what goes on and making the choices for the good of himself and his friends. There are more non key details that make no sense. The movie is full of them. Like when the command is given to take Thomas and his friends alive, why do the guards immediately start shooting at them? Near the start of the movie, they are in a medical facility. The world is largely consumed by a plague. Thomas and his friend see some people been wheeled around on medical stretchers. Somehow this is highly suspicious. I mean no way can sick people be on stretchers in a hospital. Of course in this bizarre plot, the paranoia actually turns out to be correct. I guess there would be no movie otherwise. Anyway, I find it mind boggling that there are books and movies like this that portray doctors as evil and clueless teens as heroes in a world devastated by a plague.

Hey I got an idea for a book/movie. In an overpopulated starving world, there are some fat cooks that oppress poor teens. A handful of starving teens heroically steal food from the kitchens to feed starving puppies.

I think this was an OK movie that could have been great if it wasn't for so much, so much, so much swearing. I mean honestly they just threw in swear words just for the i don't know why. The 10 year old boy swore more in the 2 hours of the movie than I do in a week and I don't consider myself a pristine person. I don't think there was a more than 3 minute stretch in the movie that went with out f this or s that. I am not even going to count minor offensive words. Anyway, for whatever reason the makers of this movie thought if they just string enough rudeness together, it will be funny. It wasn't. However, if you subtract all the rude words, the rest of the movie was actually pretty finny. The next generation of Griswolds got to all kinds of funny high jinks and misadventures. I just wish it was more like the original Lampoons and was PG-13.

This movie has surprised me by how boring it was. I have not seen anything this boring for some years. It has worsted even the worst movies that I have seen and I have seen a lot of movies.

There is a never ending dialogue about all kinds of things. That could have been interesting, except it's all said in the most monotone voices possible, without any emotion.

There are "action" scenes if you can call them that. Because the "action" scenes are super boring! Believe it or not the "action" in this movies is more boring than the endless monotone dialogue.

There are sexual encounters of the boring kind thrown in that don't really add to the story.

Well, I've warned you. If you still feel like watching, drink lots of coffee.

This movie is plainly horrible. Not only it defiles history but it denies laws of physics, chemistry and even biology. Let me try to list a few things that come to mind: A man jumps of a cliff, lands on his feet, doesn't break his legs. Doesn't even twist an ankle. Wearing armor in battle is somehow bad, man must be muscular and mostly naked. Even though the men are mostly naked, few have a tan... hmm... A man enters a "magical" pool and emerges a giant twice the size and for some reason wearing a lot of gold. Oil which normally is a slow burning substance, has ability to explode with the force of TNT. Persians have mastered building ironclads, 2000 years before ironclads were invented. There is enough Persian ships to put them side by side, forming a bridge across a sea. That's about 50 miles. If each ship is 20 yards wide, it would take about 4000 ships. A force of 200 ships was considered a huge fleet and the greatest naval battle of that time that is featured in the movie had less than 700 ships combined. A spear is thrown upwards, comes down in an arc and the somehow pierces a man upwards.

The physical abnormalities make me forget how inaccurate the movie was historically.

First of, this move has ZERO scientific basis. There are so many things scientifically wrong with the story that it's practically anti-science. Here are some of the obvious wrongs: Apparently "unlocking" parts of the brain that we consider dormant can give us ability to fly, control time and move like the Flash. Lucy gets control of the electro-magnetic waves, she can therefore appear on a TV screen or a phone and chat. Even if she did have an ability to emit electro-magnetic signals, the TV picture is actually digitally encoded and it's more than just "waves". It means her brain would actually have to encode a picture of herself pixel by pixel, then convert this bit stream into an electronic signal that would be understood by the TV according to the encoding transmission that is specific to that region and then she'd have to do the next frame and the next, at about 30 frames per second. OK, I guess if she really had super intelligence it may be possible. But I tend to think anyone with super intelligence wouldn't waste time encoding 5 minutes * 30 frames/second * 921600 pixels (HD resolution) = 8,294,400,000 total pixels. Yep, for a 5 minute conversation Lucy would encode over 8 billion pixels. I'd think even a person of regular intelligence would realize she just needs to pick up the phone or computer and just let the computer do it. Oh and by the way, she is transmitting her TV signal from Taiwan to a TV in the US. One would think distance still matters. At the end of the movie Lucy develops a super computer that produces a USB stick and dissolves. With all the super intelligence, the best she can do is a USB stick... WTF?!? Lucy is now "everywhere" or is it nowhere? Cliché. Also Lucy has some strange religious undertones. Basically, she is a human that becomes god. So, it's both anti-science and anti-religion as well. Since, pretty much every religion would consider such a thing blasphemy.

Secondly, This movie is actually more of a comic book hero fantasy genre. A woman (Lucy) gets accidentally injected with experimental drugs which causes here to rapidly develop super hero powers. OK, now the story seems more plausible. Not in the sense that it may actually happen but at least my brain can stop searching for an explanation and just accept that blue powder gives humans super strength, speed, intelligence, time control, ability to fly, etc... Unfortunately, for a super hero movie the action is kinda lame and attempts to inject pseudo-science to try and explain what's going on make it worse and worse.

Thirdly, here are some notable quotes: "One plus one equals two. That's all we've learned, but one plus one has never equaled two. ... We've created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale. " Sorry Lucy and writers, directors. 1+1 has always equaled 2 and always will. A time may come when we start thinking of ones differently, perhaps multi-dimensionally but it will still be equal to a multi-dimension 2.

"I am everywhere." Can it get more cliché than that? And by the way if she is everywhere, why is she bothering to type in a cell phone? Can't she just speak out loud? Better yet, can't she just think it to their brains?

"Time is the only true unit of measure. It gives proof to the existence of matter. Without time, we don't exist." That is actually kinda scientific. Although is it time that defines matter or matter that defines time or do both of them mutually define each other?

"I don't feel pain, fear, desire. It's like all things that make us human are fading away. It's like the less human I feel, all this knowledge about everything, quantum physics, applied mathematics, the infinite capacity of a cell's nucleus. They're all exploding inside my brain, all this knowledge." The informational capacity of the cell is big in a sense that it contains the entire human DNA, immensely complex. But the capacity of a cell to contain abstract data is actually relatively low. Let say of argument sake, that we did "unlock" the cell's "capacity", we'd find out things like human DNA, human origins, etc... It would tell us zero about things like earthquakes, radios, or black holes.

"we must break through to the nucleus" That sounds so funny! I just was laughing and laughing! Still smile whenever I remember it.

I think I've broken to the nucleus of this movie. What's inside the nucleus? - Waste of time.

The show started OK. The last man on Earth - Phil is very pleased blowing things up and taking a margarita bath. Nothing really funny happens but it's not bad. There is hope it will get better. And it does get better! Enter Carol. She is easily the funniest character on the show and she has a major role in the second hour. She insists that Phil stops at a stop sign even though there are no other cars. She want to repopulate with Phil but only after they get married. She makes funny(absurd) corrections to Phil's English. I'd actually give the second hour 8 stars. Unfortunately, it doesn't last. The show quickly deteriorates to complete waste of time. Melissa shows up and Carol's character is showed to the background. The show becomes Phil running after Melissa like a dog, trying to score with her. It's not funny at all. In fact, it's anti-funny. Finally to top it off, Tod shows up and that pretty much puts the final touch on the show for me, since Phil is not even the last man on Earth any more.

Although the movie depicts a reasonable amount action and semi exciting battle scenes, it is so inaccurate that after a while I've found it hard to watch. The battle images eventually become repetitive and I would have liked to see a more accurate representation of what would happen in a siege, battle, etc...

So, here are all the things that I can think of that are clearly wrong: A siege army marches up to a castle. Trebuchets just appear out of thin air an hour after. Really, it would take a few days to assemble the trebuchets. It could take up to an hour to reload a trebuchet to fire again. In the movie trebuchets fire about every 30 seconds. After what looks about 5 minutes of rapid trebuchet bombardment, the soldiers rush at the walls. Of course, what would normally happen is weeks, may be months of bombardment until at least 1 or multiple wall breaches are made. Next to the trebuchets are archers who fire arrows which somehow travel about 3-5 times the distance they would normally and hit the castle from the same distance as the trebuchets. Although about 20 archers fired the arrows about 100-200 arrows struck the castle court yard. This is not considering that normally about half the arrows would hit the wall or buildings and not do any damage. If a king would ever march with an army of just mercenaries, the mercenaries would immediately take him hostage and demand heavy ransom. Indeed, mercenaries would normally join larger armies and the king would always be surrounded by trusted guards. The "good" guys are capable of fighting 10 on 1 odds and win without even a scratch. A mercenary employed by the good guys is loose with women, yet he never rapes any. Sorry but that's just the truth, rape by soldiers, especially mercenaries was common place those days. The castle is exceptionally clean. Mind you they didn't used to have a sewer system... But then again, they haven't pooped even once in this movie, so I guess that's why the castle is clean and doesn't stink. Normally during a siege, due to overall unsanitary conditions 10-20% of the soldiers would be sick as would 20-40% of the towns folk. Not a single person is sick which is fortunate cause there there is no sewer and vomiting just wouldn't do. A few hits from hand held ram break down the gates. This is a castle with 50 foot walls that trebuchets couldn't break down but apparently the gate was made of pillows. When the garrison is told to make a shield wall, the soldiers just stand next to each other holding individual shields. No shield interlocking at all. In fact not only you can slide a sword in between the shields but a small man could probably fit through. A woman that was never trained in combat leads the shield wall while wielding a 50 pound sword, as if it was a movie prop. Ummm... may be that's why... Strangely I see no cattle at all the entire movie. What do these people eat? Historically, when preparing for a siege, they would have collected every chicken, cow, horse from miles around. The castle would have been packed. Where are the town's folk in this siege? There is about 20 soldiers, 5 nobles and may be 20 servants. A castle this size should have 300 or so people and in an event of a siege, peasants from miles around would come in which would bump the number to 1000 or more. Not a single farm is burned during this movie. There is zero pillaging. In spite of the king being "evil", his evilness is limited to yelling, stumping his feet and well he did order an opposing "good" guy chopped up. I guess that's something. Although by the standards set by the times, that was a very quick death, 5-10 minutes of chopping and that's it. Historically, the slow torture would last days and be way more elaborate. Trebuchets couldn't break the castle but towards the end the castle just falls to pieces basically on it's own. People inside the collapsing tower are unhurt by giant stones. Tons or rock just came down but the dust settles down in under a minute and a minute later, there is no dust at all. A wounded and nearly dying man predictably says "go, I'll hold them off" and proceeds to kill about 20 enemy soldiers. During the culmination fight the Templar and the Dane lock sword to axe. The Templar has a clear path to just slide his sword right into the Dane but doesn't. Instead he waits until he is seriously wounded and then kills the Dane. The moment the mercenaries defeat everyone in the castle, the French army arrives. Mind you the whole siege took 2 days. But somehow they just apparate to the middle of England Harry Potter style. The Templar, the main protagonist, at the beginning of the movie was under vows of silence and celibacy breaks both by the end of the movie which is about 2 weeks time. The ending summary states that King John died of dysentery. About time someone pooped in this movie!

I've just finished watching Dexter's finale and I must say I am somewhat bummed. That was a very poor ending in my opinion. Over the last 4 seasons, the show producers and writers have led us down the trail of Dexter changing from an inhumane killer into a human being with feelings who can finally relate to how others feel. The ending absolutely denies and negates this change. Just as Dexter realized that he no longer has a need to kill and can have a normal life with Hannah and Harrison, he ends up abandoning all of it and going into a permanent seclusion. The only conclusion I can draw that either the last 4 seasons were a complete waste of time or the ending is complete wrong. IMHO he should have ended up in Argentina with Hannah and Harrison and may be even Deb and Quinn. Very disappointed.

OK, so if you are expecting a movie about what sharks are really like and real shark attacks, this is clearly not a movie to watch. Nor does it have that feel to it like Jaws did that any of this could really happen. I mean the movie is filled with FLYING sharks. The sharks are rather small, only about 10 feet long. No way a shark that small with attack a human in real life unless it's absolutely desperate. And baby sharks only a foot long acting like piranha? Not in real life. But hey, It's nothing compared to the fact that sharks in this movie: have radar, similar to submarines that allows them to track movements above water just as well as under are super intelligent can perform complex geometric and physics computations to plot optimal intercept course if a human (their favorite meal) somehow gets out of the water, just jump out after him as much as 6 feet up and as long as it takes really can swim at 50 miles an hour, for 20 minutes or possibly longer don't really eat but just bite repeatedly if a piece of human, like an arm, is bitten off, it's promptly spat out, so the shark is still hungry and can go after the next victim without pausing. I think if all else fails, the sharks may have been equipped with torpedoes but that's just my theory. But sharks are not the only ones who can perform miracles. A one armed guy who was just unconscious from all the blood loss manages to stab a shark in the water with one hand while been chewed on. Girls in the movie have radar too. They can miraculously locate the direction of the camera which they don't even know is there. Then they turn away from it in unison (and towards a window) take off their tops to put on bikinis.

Anyhow, this is not at all a serious movie. But it's so... so... cheesy that i think I am giving it 6/10 as being kinda a comedy. I mean a little more tweaking and they could make it into a good parody spoof of some bad shark movies.

When I left the movie theater, I wondered if the producer was the same guy who did MiB. I looked it up and it wasn't. Many other however picked up on the same thing. The R.I.P.D. is a lot like the MiB movies. Upon reflection it most resembles MiB 2.

However, that doesn't make the movie bad IMHO. In fact it's an entertaining action packed movie with some original humor and good acting. And lets face it, they are going to remake MiB movies a decade or two from now anyway. So, why not make R.I.P.D. instead? The plot offers at least some originality. Undead instead of aliens. The R.I.P.D. boss is a woman instead of a man. The rookie R.I.P.D. cup is married adding a little complication which Agent J did not have. Small details I suppose but at least a little different from MiB 2 remake and that's something. Also I liked Bridges and Bacon. They played their roles perfectly cause well they are great actors.

I am giving it 7/10 because in spite of the unoriginal script, it was good.

This move features a flash back to the past. In fact most of the movie is a flashback. The first quarter of the movie reminded me a lot of Tomorrow Never Dies. Just swap a mad news mogul with a mad computer genius. Terror! Terror! Terror! After that the move travels farther back into the earlier Bond movies, where Bond fought against an unknown enemy - SPECTRE. Lots of disposable henchmen and cheesy lines. The villain is some sort of a resurrection of Ernst Stavro Blofeld (SPECTRE #1). I am just surprised the new villain didn't own a cat. This super villain is supposed to be super scary, more scary than anyone else in the world! Except this is according to the bond girl who's been terrorized by him since she was 12. As it turns during the movie, he really fails to live up to that standard. In fact, compared to the other Bond villains, he is bellow average. The scariest thing he does is smile in a creepy way, not very scary if you ask me. And speaking of the Bond girl. We see her for a few minutes here, a few minutes there and then she is gone out of the picture. I have trouble even calling her a Bond girl. Really, this is the first Bond movie with no Bond girl. Way to go and experiment! There are about 10000 polls on the internet that try to ascertain who the sexiest Bond girl is. Meanwhile, the movie producers and writers decided to create a Bond movie without a Bond girl.

Oh well. I guess it could have been worse, I didn't actually get up and leave the theater, so that's a little something.

The movie is super boring. I got this movie because Zooey Deschanel in a romantic comedy can't possibly go wrong... WRONG! Turns out it can go wrong... Very wrong... Have I mentioned wrong? There is a very annoying and boring voice narrating events that sets the tone for the movie. Rare laughs are drowned in long periods of melancholy and depressing love longing. In the end I couldn't take more than 20 minutes of this movie. As a last resort I tried to skip ahead in hopes that it will pick up. All I got was 2 more minutes of lame dialog. I've watched some bad movies before. I've watched some boring movies before. It's really rare that I can't finish watching a movie.

The movie presents a version of evens that feature: Government conspiracy to subjugate it's people into complete submission and establish a dictatorship. Followed by prosecution of the people that is reminiscent of the church burnings during dark ages. Of course mixed in are secret genetic experiments. And finally we have a lunatic anarchist who was a subject to the genetic experiments and turned super human, turned terrorist bent on annihilating the institution of order. How glorious is his cause of blowing up the London parliament. According to this movie, we should all be worshiping Osama Bin Laden as the best thing that ever happened to the free world.

I am giving this 2 of 10 because of the movie completely bent on scaring people into revolting against "the man". It would be 1 of 10 but the play acting is actually somewhat good. So, I've added 1 star for the actors doing their job at least.