ArtemRomanov

Mr Heyman, could you PLEASE stop Mr Yates with his bland, pretentious and flatlined "two actors trying to speak mysteriously with ominous background music" filmmaking? It works only with Jude Law and Mads Mikkelsen because they're both phenomenal actors, but not as much with the others. I understand, you're trying to make teenage dramas repackaged as proper full budget blockbusters, but could you please at least try to deliver something above mediocre in the directorial department? Maybe, I don't know, because it's your legacy too? The first Beasts were watchable, but you obviously had more time to polish the script. All the other Potters and Beasts by Mr Yates have been just beyond repair. Why David Yates? Is he cheap and agreeable? Is he a good cook? Is his smile warm and charming? Does he remind you of your grandfather, who loved you very much? There should be a reason you keep hiring this man who can barely build a simple scene. You're not bad-marriage stuck with him. There are other directors, I promise.

Easily on the top 5 list of the worst movies I've seen. The writing is so bad, it's painful. The storyline with the priest should be studied in film schools as something you get banned from the industry for. And not because of the dog. The only question is, how did they get those high profile actors for this absolute garbage of a movie?

The monsters are alright. Everything else spans from "meh" to "seriously?"

The story is good. The storytelling isn't. Just a bunch of persistent directorial missteps. I mean you should put real effort into making Benedict Cumberbatch a mediocre miscast.

Tahar Rahim is an amazing actor, I really hope we'll see more of him. Maybe that's the main positive outcome of the movie.

The movie is well made. It's entertaining. The only problem is... I hate this question, but what is it about? Okay, people tried to escape and they actually did, and?.. No background, no parallel storyline, no questions, no ideas, no character arcs, yes, people did escape from the prison, just like it's stated in the title and that was it. Even my grandma's handbag has got some inner lining...

What is the word I'm looking for?.. Ridiculous? Ludicrous? Preposterous?.. The writing, the acting (Mr Cage's scene in the car... oh my sweet mother of Lovecraft), the rhythm, the style - everything is off. People are walking and making faces. It really feels like the director tried to make every next scene more useless than the previous. Please don't torture us with your genius, Mr Stanley. You could barely pay your actors with your box office, figure it out.

Started like a decent movie, even somewhat stylish, then went haywire, then went ridiculous. But what I hated the most is that there was no message, neither artistic nor social. Just a humming void of pretentiousness. Don't bother.

Somehow it turned out to be a good movie. All those coming-of-age stories are usually quite dull, but this one is well written, well acted and genuinely kind, wise and educational.

One of the worst movies of the year, without question. The story is okey-ish. The direction is distasteful. The CGI is cheap. Some concepts like the prophet vomiting with talking people and the hog are just ridiculous. Baba Yaga was interesting though, it was nice to see a bit of the Russian folklore.

With all due respect to RuPaul's undoubted producer's talent, the writing, directing and acting is nothing but mediocre and sometimes even down to awkward.

Nothing in this movie makes any sense. Generic dialogs. Generic jump-scares. Even the monsters are generic. How can a major studio make such a sloppy movie with easily one of the worst scripts of the year? Dull, tiresome, uninventive.

The parallel of the two stories kind of bended in time - a has-been actor and a new aspiring starlet - is a great idea. The inversion of the Mansons story - great idea. Making a buddy story out of an actor and his stunt double - great idea. A ton of great ideas that don't actually work together. "Look how smart, talented and cinephile I am" - this show-off kaleidoscope of a movie oozes director's self-admiration much more than the actual storytelling.

I guess that's overall a Sony's mistake, they agreed that Mr Tarantino would have the right of the final cut. And that mistake made Mr Tarantino to sink in his own (undoubted) talent, but not in the story. So the story went a little too south.

Would have made a great book though, funny, detailed, unexpected. Literature can tolerate a story that lack crispness and clarity, but is full of atmospheric deviations.

A realistic lion cub sings a cheerful song and screams in pain with the same face. That's scarier than Pennywise.

There's a reason cartoon characters are anthropomorphic: those stories are actually about people. In this uncanny (and totally unnecessary) movie animals are so realistic, you keep asking yourself: why are they even speaking? Why are lions and warthogs dancing in something that looks totally like an animal documentary? What next? Kinky Boots on NatGeo?

Animation is great beyond belief. But who could have thought Disney would turn Simba and Nala into Chucky and his bride?..

I'm Russian. I'm a refugee. I had to flee from my country because the Soviet Union is not dead. Trust me, it's only spreading its mouldy wings. What Putin is doing right now is the exact copy of the country that gave him life - lies, corruption, shameless propaganda. The Chernobyl he's building right now has a faulty core. I couldn't have asked for a more subtle hint from the makers of this wonderful series. Bravo!

If Jared Harris doesn't receive all the possible accolades for his work, this world won't make any sense. A precise, reserved, carefully thought through performance.

For all the idi... sorry, people here who are asking for the Russian accent in the series: thank God you're not filmmakers.

The movie isn't flamboyant enough to be a musical or deep enough to be a drama. It's a somewhat brightened up Wikipedia article about Elton John. Elton's parents were one dimensional cruel beings with zero reasoning or background. They hated the boy just because they did. And he became a broken adult because his parents hated him. Wow, that's a revelation original and artistic enough to make a 2 hour long movie about. That's a 2019-normal-zero-art-Netflix-style-shallow depiction of Elton John's life.

Zero fantasy in both writing and directing. If it wasn't for the actors, the movie would have been a total waste of time.

This is not a movie. It's a generic pile of poorly executed cliches. Apart from acting everything else is a pure 'meh'. It's not IO the Jupiter moon, it's I/O the switch in off position. Zero imagination. Zero depth. Zero message.

That's the best thing, when you see a new series improve with every episode. The writers got us hooked with the light premise and then it gets deeper and even darker. I absolutely love this approach. Great casting. Great acting.

Is there an award for the worst editing of the year? All the rest is meh, tolerable. We kinda knew Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich could act. But it's sad Sandra spent her time producing and acting in just another survival movie.