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I did not see the original series on which this is based but judging from the movie I did not miss much. It's pretty boring and predictable throughout until the final battle scene which is quite well done. I must admit that I was totally puzzled at much of the plot, at one point our hero is banished from the country, and trudges through the rain and snow, next thing he is back with the King dressed in fine clothes and best of pals? But the reason I am leaving a negative review is because of the AWFUL soundtrack music, which will drive you crazy! Synthesizers and howling wailing female vocals throughout the whole movie....it never lets up. If you go to see this take some earplugs.

What a waste of time this movie is. I was yawning most of the time watching this garbage, how it gets such a high rating is beyond me, people must have been watching a different movie to the one that I was watching. About 10 min of 'action' and over 2 hours of Buddy Buddy movie, sentimental claptrap. Script was probably written on the back of a napkin in a restaurant, it's that well thought out. Characters are all pathetic 'Jocks' who swill beer and and are loud and obnoxious, and indulge in endless 'bonding', and we are supposed to 'feel' for these imbeciles. We watch them bonding in the bar, we watch them bonding on the beach, we watch them bonding in training.....Yawn. When the characters lean forward in their chairs then that is when we know that we are supposed to feel tension, the problem is that we don't feel anything but boredom. There is one laugh out loud moment when an enemy plane comes alongside and the Americans are pretending to be friends, but Tom Cruise has 'Maverick' written in large English letters on his helmet, presumable the enemy think this is their own language. It you want to spend two hours hearing people telling each other that "You can do it", then waste your time watching this movie. And by the way Tom cruise is far too old for the leather jacket and motorbike stuff.

I am not sure what Nicole Kidman was doing in this movie, she had so little to do, and what little she had was done poorly. Most of this movie is so dark that it's impossible to tell what is going on most of the time. Others have pointed out the movie's main faults, the lack of script, and unsympathetic characters being the main points, but I just want to address the score, why is it so necessary in nearly all modern films to have someone incessantly banging on a drum,? If it is supposed to heighten the tension then why not just use it for that, and NOT have this cacophony of noise all through the movie. I can guarantee you will have a headache when you leave the cinema, and you will be wanting Viking vengeance on that damn drummer!

As others have said Conan The Barbarian is a far better film than this.

This may not be the worst movie ever made (it's close), but it's certainly one of the loudest! Amid the screeching synthesizer wailing, the ever present beating drums, and the constant helicopter rotor noise (and this is while the characters are just walking down a corridor), also the ludicrous spinning camera that swirls so much that you feel like your going to be sick (during one scene with the actors just talking, they are moving around each other with the camera swooping around them in the opposite direction, it got so bad that I had to close my eyes as i was feeling dizzy and sick). I was also closing my eyes every time the camera pointed straight into the sun, do they learn nothing at basic film school? Also what was the point of having the camera (drone?) swoop along the roof of a skyscraper, zoom all the way down the walls to the bottom, do a flip, and swoop along the street, I mean why? Oh yeah, the storyline, don't bother, it's just an overlong car chase with 'Blues Brothers' like crashes, and cops and robbers shooting millions of bullets, and destroying everything in sight. I did'nt make it to the end of the movie, my head was hurting from all the noise and spinning.

A slow burn movie for the first 30 minutes, concentrating on 'relationships'and the Dad's love for his annoying kid. Then you are led to believe that there may be a decent action movie hiding somewhere in all the overblown sentimentality, and indeed it develops quite successfully into an interesting plot and a few good action scenes, I thought the scope through the chemical lab building was done pretty well. And then it's all downhill from there, as for no reason at all as far as I can see dozens of Police are shot down without a second thought, and it just becomes another Hollywood mess of a film. I gave up trying to work out who was who (having two protagonists with beards who look exactly alike, who's stupid casting idea was that?), and I just sat back for the action, and to heck with any plot, if indeed there ever was one. I had to laugh out loud at one point where our hero is rushing through the streets of Berlin and grabs a baseball cap as a disguise, Ha, no one in Europe would be seen dead wearing a baseball cap! How to spot an American in a crowd......look for the Baseball cap.

This has got to be one of the worst action movies that I have ever seen. The lead actors are totally wasted on this rubbish, Samuel L Jackson must be desperate for a paycheck to even think of lowering himself in parts like these. I don't know why the makers of movies these days even bother hiring a scriptwriter, as the entire movie is just one long F**K, or endless variations of the word, they even managed to cram three 'M***********S' into one sentence! It is strictly a by the numbers movie, the head of the agency is a masculine looking woman, the agent assigned to protect Jackson is a woman,the villain has seemingly thousands of henchmen all willing to die at his bidding, there is the van chase through the streets, the motorbike chase through the market,the motorboat chase through the canals....Yawn! If you are 12 years old and like to hear the 'F' word over and over again, or otherwise totally brain dead, then you will love this mess of a movie.

O.K. you see there's this seagull called Steven and he's trapped on a rock because he's dislocated his wing and can't fly, and there's this shark circling around the rock, so he gets onto a broken piece of a surfboard and tries to make it to the beach.......Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is also a girl on the rock who has been keeping him company. All joking aside, this is a very entertaining movie, yes you can pick fault with it if you have nothing better to do, but it is still a thrilling view, and Blake Lively is not too bad on the eyes, the CGI is a bit all over the place, how big is this shark? It starts off large and ends up bigger than the whale. All in all a superior shark movie. Give Steven an Oscar!

My advice if you see this movie is to take a large bottle of headache pills, because you are going to need them, the editing is frantic, it hurts the eyes and gives you a blinding headache. Very few scenes last for more than a few seconds, and as there are many large crowd scenes, you find yourself spending most of the movie watching someones sleeve or leg or back. Try running through a large crowd with a hand held camera at your waist, and you will have some idea of what this movie looks like for most of it's running time. There are of course the stupid tech errors, 'SQL'...really? And do they STILL do the "Zoom in and run an ID" thingy? Then there is the obligatory and ultimately...boring...motorbike chase, which again is mostly just a blur. I gave up at the final car chase, so i don't know (or care) how it ended, and I am sure the acting was fine, but I don't know, as my eyes were hurting too much!

OK so it rips off Woody Allen, it also rips off the old British 'Brian Rix' farces, with people hiding in wardrobes, trying desperately to avoid each other, and trying to explain a situation that has built up to a crescendo and you know will lead to a punch on the nose. I found Jennifer Aniston to be slightly annoying, but the rest of the cast were brilliant, I laughed out loud at several of the situations, the glance at the toy squirrel on the glass (Squirrel to the nuts), the 'Detective' who is a 'master' of disguise (Great Rabbi!), and the Russian Hooker ("is ringing"). Imogen Poots 'Brooklyn' accent had me convinced in the same way that Renee Zellweger's 'British' accent would convince most Americans, so nothing to complain about there. All in all thoroughly enjoyable.

A 'Our Man Flint' or 'In like Flint' for the modern age. This movie has been compared to 'Kickass' and I totally get that, I loved the 'Kickass' movies, but this is SOoooo way over the top that when it got to the bit where the agent is split (with no blood to be seen), I was reaching for the turn off button. What is this rubbish? But....I kept watching, and was glad I did, the cartoon violence is relentless, and the scene in the church both entertaining and hilarious. The clichés come thick and fast and reference 'Pulp Fiction' 'Bladerunner' 'The Matrix' 'James Bond' and a thousand others. Some of the actors have long outstayed their welcome and it seems that they will do anything for a fast buck, Samuel L. Jackson is just irritating, and does Michael Caine really need the money? However the main complaint is the constant foul language(Hollywood scriptwriters should really be told to lay off the constant 'M*****F****R', and 'F**K YOU' and 'A**F****R', as it is becoming impossible to watch any film without having to endure a barrage of the 'F' word), and the final 'Up the A**' scene was just too much, why did they have to put that in at the end to spoil it? But i was entertained and the girl villain 'Gazelle' played by Sofia Boutella was a great creation and really well done.

Don't waste your time (not intended as a pun!). This is one of the most disappointing films I have ever seen, I love Sci-fi and was really looking forward to seeing this following the great reception it received, the people who liked this movie must have been watching a different version to the one that I watched. It is overlong at nearly 3 hours, where not a lot happens, the acting is wooden and hopeless from everyone except the young girl; Matthew McConaughty as the main character is totally miscast and 'MUMBLES' throughout his entire performance (I have perfect hearing, but was having to strain to hear what he was saying), Michael Caine and John Lithgow are wasted talents in this film, and are not given much to do. But what was most annoying was the never ending oozing over- sentimentality about family 'relationships' that would even have Steven Spielburg blushing! If you go to see this expecting a film about man's push to the stars...forget it. Also the 'revelation' how the girl works out the answer is so ridiculous that it actually made me laugh.

After watching a run of really terrible movies (Monuments Men, I Frankenstein, Invasion Day) I was desperate for a good movie....well I found it! Not just a good movie, but a great one. I was not holding out much luck from the hopeless title of Rob The Mob, but 5 minutes in and I was sold. Nina Arianda as 'Rosie' absolutely steals this movie, and is a joy to watch, her facial expressions are hilarious, and really draw you in to liking the character, in fact every performance in this movie is good, and whoever put the cast together deserves a 'well done' for a brilliant ensemble troop of players. If i have one slight criticism then it is that the Mob are about as threatening as a box of kittens! They are depicted as a bunch of fat guys sitting around playing cards and making rice balls, but the guy at the back of the club who seems to know where everybody is, made me laugh out loud. This movie deserves to be up there with some of the greats of the mobster movies. There is also a great soundtrack.

This has to be one of the worst movies i have ever seen. The premise is interesting and could have been a good film in the right hands, with the USA suffering a cyber attack and a take over from China (This isn't going to play well in the Peoples Republic). The acting in this film is appalling, with only the little girl being believable at all, she may be someone to watch in future. I will leave it to other reviewers to point out the ludicrous facts about why China would even consider attacking the USA for an outstanding dept of money. The most annoying thing about the film is the direction and the cinematography, the camera jerks from one thing to another apparently at random,for example, one of the characters comes out onto the porch of the cabin, then he is at the foot of the stairs, then he is halfway towards us, then in front of the camera, and finally back on the porch.....and the point is? also the whole film seems to be shot with annoying yellow and sepia filters that hurt your eyes. The actors do not seem to remember where they are supposed to be standing, almost stopping to think about it. A good third of the film seems to be taken up with everyone constantly hugging each other. What happened to the American army? Why, in spite of it apparently being scorching hot outside is there an enormous blazing log fire? Why does the main character only smash up one of the phones? Why did everyone suddenly get so dirty? Why is the Mexican hiding in the cupboard, and why can he suddenly speak English? Why are they dying of thirst and hunger when they are in the mountains! At several points in the film I laughed out loud, though I am sure that this was not the intended reaction. Watch only if you have nothing better to do.