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There's nothing funny in this poorly-scripted, badly-acted, atrociously-directed schlock. Who on earth told the cast, who must be seriously short of cash and exposure, that this was a movie worth making, and who seriously thought that having their name associated with it in any way would do anything other than kill what little is left of their screen career stone-dead?

The scenery stole the show, such as it was, from the beginning, and the rest was a sorry mess of juvenile "jokes" and ridiculous scenes that even a child wouldn't find funny. The plot is as thin as toilet paper but frankly nowhere near as useful.

If this is supposed to even humorously represent Greek-Americans, then I can see a class action for defamation in the cards!

Full Disclosure:

1 - There are no spoilers in this review - I can't honestly imagine how it would be possible to spoil it any more than it already is.

2 - I had never heard of Toni Collette is before I saw this garbage and I can see why that was. I'm sure that she's a wonderful human being, but she clearly can't act and she isn't remotely funny, even allowing for the dire dialog. The storyline certainly had some potential but it was just lost under the weight of the incompetence of everyone involved.

It is apparently supposed to be a comedy but clearly no-one thought to share this information with the "actors" - or the audience. More to the point, the writers and producer seem to believe that insulting their audience and wasting a part of their lives with juvenile nonsense is perfectly okay: Newsflash - it ain't!

Everyone involved should be ashamed to have contributed to this mess....

This series stars a parade of superannuated, supersized, super-dumb inhabitants of some cosmic trailer park, all of them naively looking for some new "relationship" where they get to have things their way because their universe revolves around them (and sometimes their spoiled/needy offspring). They seem to believe that just turning up in a foreign country is all they need to do in order to prove their commitment to some deluded deal they have with another person whose language, culture and customs they don't understand and haven't even thought about.

They don't bring anything of real value to the table and apparently believe, for example, that any young guy in a less wealthy country will swoon at the sight of their ancient and bloated features.

I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt - and I'm nearing the end of the second decade of my Foreign Romance, but I regarded it as a serious enterprise that had to be carefully researched and talked through with my prospective partner, and even then we've had a few near misses!

I root for a couple of the people in each season but it's certainly clear that most of them haven't done their homework and are totally unrealistic, both about themselves and their prospective soulmates.

...do I have to write "Garbage from start to finish!" before I reach the required minimum number of characters?

The acting is abysmal, the budget probably minuscule - but still too high for this total washout. Paper-thin characters, the now-obligatory dumb and self-obsessed teenager, wooden acting, boring and predictable dialogue, and back-of-a-cigarette-packet "plot" - the full panoply of predictable and done-to-death tropes and non-existent Australian production values are here for all to see and suffer from.

Apparently Mr Worthington won the Australian Film Institute's Best Male Actor and then went to make a career voicing CGI characters; from the evidence of this film that was a very smart move on his part.

There is a nugget of good news here, however - no celluloid was wasted on producing this junk.

If you like poor writing, worse acting and a "Western" story made for folks who need everything made really simple for them, then you really are in for one heck of a treat with this stinker.

Somehow the writers and cast have managed to produce a movie that makes all those black and white westerns of the 1950s, with their cardboard cut-out characters, simplistic plots and laughable dialogue, look like masterpieces. Don't waste a second of your life on this trash - if you want to see examples of the genre that are a million times better, sit yourself down and watch "Maverick", "Wagon Train" or even "Rin Tin Tin". Yeah, I know they're clunky and dated, but "Walker - Independence" really is MUCH worse...

You've seen this one a hundred times before - and done a LOT better. The only "twist" here is the archery - and our heroine didn't look like she actually knows how to handle a bow properly anyway.

The story is jaded and badly-written, and the plot was transparent from the start. The acting was poor to mediocre; the characters were all one-dimensional, and the actors didn't even try to make any of them interesting or engaging - not that the amateur script gave any of them much to work with anyway.

All in all, this barely merits a straight-to-DVD release - and it would anyway have to be a very wet day to tempt anyone to sit through this bilge. Definitely one to recommend to that annoying friend who thinks it's fun to try to prank you...

...to read that the series "has lost its way" - that means that it gets even worse as it goes on, a truly horrifying prospect for mankind. This isn't a review of the whole thing as I can't bear to inflict more than three episodes on myself but it has all the tropes that you can hope for in today's "entertainment": Annoying and petulant youngsters? Check. Arrogant politician who gets her comeuppance? Check. Stupid scientist? Check. Juvenile scriptwriting? Check. Wooden and amateur acting? Check - and take a special bow, Lady Cora.

The fact that this is into a third season speaks volumes about the amount of even worse stuff that's around - and about the low expectations of today's viewers; I'm definitely rooting for Team Invaders...

A pretty mediocre attempt to get into the niche market of "Greeks Abroad" that kicked off with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". It might have helped if any of the characters could actually speak Greek; as it was, they sounded like kids in kindergarten with fake "Greek accents", who'd practised speaking words which meant nothing to them.

The plot was wafer-thin, the acting made any village Am-dram Group look like Oscar winners and the script appeared to have been written in the previously-mentioned kindergarten.

Definitely one to avoid, even on a wet day.

Tedious and silly, with annoying characters, ridiculous plot, poor acting, juvenile dialogue. If this is what grown-ups really want to watch these days then I'm hoping that Ammit hurries up and finishes the job..

Comic book plot, amateur acting, childish characterization and dialog. This show has everything for the teenage video game player who wants to believe he'll grow up and become a SEAL.

Sorry - not going to happen: no matter how much of this junk you watch, all you'll be left with is a wasted part of your youth and some childish ideas about life. Find a good book to read and hope you'll grow out of this kind of garbage.

...something for those who like the whole C-grade package. Boringly obviously plot, terrible acting all round, wooden delivery, laughable dialogue: no need to go to a clinic in Switzerland to end your own life - this mess will make you realize that your existence isn't as drab and pointless as you thought it was.

If there's any justice in the universe, this will be pulled before the end of series one.

...exercise in how to parlay an idea that would make an interesting minor sub-plot in a halfway decent movie into a big Ta-da! Moment.

Poor acting, poor writing, filmed on the cheap and full of cardboard cut-out characters, right down to the obligatory stupid and annoying child who always does what he's told not to. Too bad the outlaws couldn't shoot straight whenever he was in their sights...

Spare yourself disappointment and give this crock a wide berth - this farmstead ain't big enough to store so much manure...

"A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic."

That was apparently the plot this movie was aiming for - they got part of it right, this mess is indeed "beyond human logic". Who can fathom why a studio would waste their money on this and why would they buy "big names" with no appreciable skills to perform in it - and what on earth made them think that rational people would pay good money to see it?

I'd love to give you a run-down on everything that wrong with this but I've already wasted what seems like days of my life watching it and I don't feel like tempting Fate by throwing good time after bad - I suggest that you don't either.

I thought I'd give this a look as I love Greece but this was complete trash and a total disappointment.

The "plot" was juvenile, the "baddies" completely inept and the nonsense about a VERY thinly-disguised fascist organisation called "Sunrise" - are we all supposed to know nothing about Golden Dawn? - was too bad to even be laughable.

Don't waste your time with this dross, chewing your own toenails would be a much better and more enjoyable use of it.

If you're looking for a pastiche of all your favourite, and much better done, movies with the very thinnest veneer of a new twist then you're in luck.

Movies coming out these days are mostly on a downward spiral of predictable nonsense aimed at not-very-bright teenagers and this disappointing effort is just another skid-mark on that road - "mile-stone" would be too grand a title.

If you're looking for a brainless action flick to pass an evening this might just be what you're looking for but be sure to start the beers well before you settle into your seat, you're gonna need 'em.

Okay, it isn't THAT badly made but it's no more than a school-boyish attempt at Delivering A Message. The acting is rather hammy - perversely "The Cop" steals the show, the premise is also stolen but we're supposed to believe that The Message justifies the lack of originality, and the dialogue seems like it's taken practically verbatim from urban graffiti.

If you're on message then no doubt you'll think that that everything about is wonderful and worthy of sweeping the board at the Oscars, if you're wanting to waste 30 minutes then it's acceptable, but if you're looking for something that is even slightly meaningful I'd suggest that you just move along, folks - there's nothing to see here...

Wow - there are people on this planet who think this nonsense is GOOD?

I wasted enough of my life watching enough of it to realize just how appallingly bad every aspect of this dross is - acting, writing, producing - so I'm gonna keep this short.

If you're young, not very bright and need something on TV to distract you from your homework then give this show a go, otherwise just get a sassy girlfriend to tell you how dumb you are....you'll enjoy it a lot more and you won't be wasting hours of your life. You might also consider writing to the studio and asking how come this junk got several season when other, vastly better in comparison, shows got canned after just one or two.

Is this just an "artistic departure" or is Liam Neeson's career nose-diving?

This movie has been done, much better, many times. Apart from the symbolism of the two male leads being father and son in real life, and having experienced the loss of their wife/mother in an accident, the story is banal and poorly-written. No-one seems to make an effort at making their characters either believable or interesting, or indeed caring much about the story itself.

The scenery stole the whole show and the actors were just bit-players putting in their time in return for a pay-check. Mr Richardson needs to really polish his almost non-existent stage craft if he is going to trade on the Redgrave-Richardson family connection with any success.

It difficult to review this waste of electricity and time without reaching for my Dictionary of Pejoratives. The sound-track is perhaps the best part of it but it's still dire - think cats walking over a synthesiser programmed with every cheap piece of muzak imaginable. The story is less than juvenile, the acting and casting are just laughable, and the locations are low-budget beyond belief.

I rarely review movies that I couldn't bear to watch all the way through but I just had to warn anyone reading this that you really have got better things to do than subjecting yourself to this dross. Even the studio's paid shills won't dare to give this mess more than two stars if they have an ounce of honesty and humanity in them....

You've see this movie many times before but this low-budget production out-performs many of the "bigger name, bigger bucks" efforts. It has a somewhat different slant to the others sharing its subject-matter and there's enough suspense to carry it forward to its expected ending. The acting is pretty good, especially when compared to many of the pot-boilers being churned out every few months by the ageing has-beens who don't know when to let go - or when they have enough in the bank to see them out.

So, the verdict is: maybe not really worth laying out the cash that a cinema evening costs these days but certainly okay for an evening in front of the DVD player

This film has everything you'd expect: the expected plot, the ham acting, the lazy writing, the one-dimensional characters, the usual bunch of inept baddies for our heroine to whup with no creativity at all, the daddy with no back-story who mysteriously taught his pacifist daughter how to fight but not shoot, the cheesy Fight With The Boss denouement after the henchmen have all been massacred. Don't waste any of your life on watching it - you really won't ever get the time back again and it's too bad to even be funny.

This movie had what promised to be an interesting twist in its subject matter but this turned out to be plain hype. I couldn't get past the first two episodes of what is an exercise in how NOT to do a series: badly-written, Amateur Hour "actors", nonsensical plot-line....the hostages must have all been praying to be the first to be shot and put out of their misery.

All it offers the viewer is the revelation that what you previously thought was the worst series you'd ever seen actually wasn't as bad as it could have been. This is definitely one to avoid at all costs.

I have no idea who the "heroine" of this pedestrian remake is supposed to be - but she certainly ISN'T "Hanna". There are even more obvious plot-lines, terrible dialogue, amateur acting and hopeless casting than you might expect in the usual stunted crop of today's so-called entertainment, all held together by one central theme: how to gather together a group of annoying and seemingly stupid characters who can manage to ruin a pretty decent story.

If you've seen the original, save yourself the time you'll waste on this pathetic effort - if you haven't seen the original then I suggest you do so at once. This could have been an improvement but it certainly isn't....

Just when you think that you've seen the worse "drama" that's ever been made along comes something even worse.

This stuff isn't even worth a long review: the writing and plots are aimed at teenagers, the acting is wooden and the whole thing would be laughable, if that didn't imply that there is at least something to make the viewer smile. Sadly, there isn't - it's just an insult to the audience. The writers and cast should be ashamed to take money to churn out this rubbish and how it ever got to the end of the first season is just a mystery.

It's just a pity that zero stars isn't an option, although even that would be too high a score.

Unlike many here, I have no great regard for Mr Roth, who is average even in today's field of lacklustre actors, but this show has plumbed new depths.

Everything is so amateurish that one has to ask if it's some kind of plot to drag standards down so low that absolutely anything will shine in comparison. The writing is unimaginative, the casting was clearly done by some drunks playing Pin The Tail On The Donkey, the music seems to have been dredged up from some 1950s Tale of the Unexpected but the acting is what finally pulls it all together into an example of just how bad a production can be while still getting air-time.

Everyone in this mess should hang their heads in shame at taking money for being associated with such a shambles. I'd accuse them all of insulting the audience's intelligence but I'm not sure that it's possible to do that these days...