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That was one of the advertising tag lines when this movie was released. I've never forgotten it because it was so silly, just like Fargo opening by claiming it was based on a true story.

I'm a big Eastwood fan (although some of his recent directorial efforts have been weak) so when this movie came out I was pumped. After trying to stay awake through the first 90+ minutes of it not so much. And then being subjected to a chase between Eastwood's fighter and another just like it that was borderline silly (and had horrible special effects, even for the day), I left the theatre apologizing to my girl friend for making her sit through it. Don't worry, she's long gone at this point...

The plot is actually silly throughout, Eastwood's character gets into the USSR with ease and operates there with even great ease. He steals the Soviets most important and secret new jet fighter like he's renting a car from Avis, and then comes the climatic and cartoonish aerial chase/battle.

This movie was in the waning days of the USSR and the cold war but "the most important movie of our time?" Hardly. It's boilerplate cold war spy stuff throughout. It's implausibility and lousy flying sequences could be forgiven if it wasn't such a boring film. Eastwood has directed in starred in some classic movies but this wasn't one of them.

Documentaries have never been Netflix's strong suit. Some are better, or worse than others but most are not really very good. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is either.

This episode is a prime example of everything they do wrong with their "documentaries".

The subject matter is very interesting, no doubt about it; it was a great choice for a series like this. Unfortunately, after making a good choice of subject matter Netflix had to make the actual segment...and that's were things went south.

No one knows for sure why so many disarticulated feet clad in running shoes washed up on the shores of the Salish Sea over a period of years. But there are some solid theories out there...none of which are really covered here. In true Netflix fashion half the run time of this episode is wasted on diversions like sea monsters, both modern sightings and ancient legends. Are sea monsters responsible for the mystery feet? Of course not but it's an old tried and true trick of Netflix; burn off run time on nonsense then admit that it really has nothing to do with anything.

Then they do it again; they mention very briefly that a good number of the feet's owners have been identified through DNA then they never touch on any of their stories in any kind of attempt to determine how their feet ended up washing up on beaches. In fact they never mention it again.

They also give a few scant minutes to experts on ocean currents and how bodies decompose in the ocean, then never touch on that again. Instead they spend the final twenty or so minutes of the episode on an someone who's the least mysterious of any of the foot owners. A young man who was into drugs, associated with drug users and dealers, had just been released from prison and immediately hooked up with them again and then...disappeared after an argument with one of them. It really doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what happened to him and why one of his boots washed up on shore with his bones in it. Every other foot was clad in a running shoe, not a boot, and this persons boot washed up just beyond the mouth of a river near which he was last seen. Yet Netflix spends a third of the episode covering his story, one of the least mysterious of all the cases. They never even bother to tell us about any of the other people who were id'd. The people behind this show are either lazy or just really bad at their jobs...maybe a little of both.

If you're really interested in this subject just do a Google search; you'll immediately come up with a huge amount of more useful information than what's in this so called "documentary". But don't even waste your time on this nonsense.

I swear, if Netflix tried to make a documentary on the Amelia Earhart disappearance they'd spend half the run time interviewing people who are afraid of flying and the other half tracking down other people named Amelia and asking them what they think happened.

I agreed to sit through this movie because the friends I was with wanted to see it. I didn't want to see it because I thought it would infuriate me with a typical Hollywood message about "us and them".

But it didn't infuriate me, it bored me to tears and at times actually amused me though not in a good way. The boring part was pretty much the entire movie except for the final fifteen minutes which depicted a generic battle that could have been any war movie anywhere but was at least done well as an action sequence. The actions of the main characters during the battle was dumb but then pretty much everything they do in this movie is dumb so no surprise there. Other than the finale absolutely nothing happened, there was no message, no real plot, not a coherent one anyway. It was a complete waste of time.

The funny part was the main characters; photo-journalists, what is this, the 1980's?? There's no such thing as photo-journalists anymore, no one takes still photos. And who thought that any type of journalist in this country was a sympathetic or appealing character these days. The news media has alienated itself from the American public to the point that no one respects them or really takes them seriously any longer. So the main plot device here is dated, uninteresting and unsympathetic, great choice for your main characters. Add to that the fact that none of them likable people, I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them.

The movie didn't really have a plot beyond a vain effort to portray journalists as plucky unsung heroes who really care about the truth...something they haven't been in this country for some time. And the attempts at clever political subterfuge; like having California and Texas join forces, was just transparent and silly. It showed clearly that Garland, a Brit, really doesn't know or understand much about the United States. And don't believe the inflated ratings and over-the-top reviews here, they're suspect at best. This really is a bad movie.

If only Alex Garland were half as clever and insightful as he seems to think he is, this may have been a half decent movie...turns out he's not and it isn't.

I should have seen it coming but foolishly I thought this episode was about ghosts. And then Netflix did Netflix and went off on a tangent about slavery and white supremacy and discrimination...I honestly think that the people at Netflix who make these "documentaries" really can't help themselves.

There it was, tooling along about the hauntings at the plantation and doing a just passable job of it; they kept flashing ghost photos on the screen for a second without any explanation of what they were. They interviewed ghost hunters and people who worked at the plantation, it wasn't bad, I was at least marginally interested.

And then on comes a "historian" or "cultural expert" or whatever he claimed to be but basically a white guy wallowing in white guilt and launching into what a terrible place plantations were, and are. Cut to a couple of African Americans who wonder how anyone can appreciate the beauty or architecture or ghost stories about the place when...a really long time ago...there were slaves there. We all know slavery was terrible, we all know it happened, and we all know that plantations were bad places back then, this country tore itself apart in a civil war that was at least partially about slavery (I know, states rights etc.).

This episode was about GHOSTS! Not slavery or anything attached to slavery. Even the famous slave ghost attached to the property, Chloe, turned out not to exist. If you want to make a documentary about slavery and the anti-bellum society of the pre-Civil War south then by all means do it although I'm pretty sure it's already been done This show is about the paranormal, It was already weak, as most of your documentaries are, before you pulled this. But as I said, I suppose you just can't help yourselves. If nothing else at least you're predictable.

I watched this movie when it was first available on Netflix several years ago. Last night I was looking for something to watch and decided to watch it again. Only, I didn't know I was watching it again; I was a good 30 minutes into it before I realized I'd seen it before. Now, I can remember movies and lines from movies I watched a decade ago, two decades ago, just ask my wife. Yet I'd completely forgotten watching this movie until a particular scene jogged my memory...apparently it's that forgettable.

A lot of reviewer here are comparing it to Wind River and they're right, the plot is very similar and they're also right that Wind River is a far superior movie. But what's so egregious here is not so much that they copied that movie, it's that they did it so badly. If you're employing the writers they did here don't even attempt to copy a great movie like Wind River.

The writing is lazy and nonsensical and really just stupid. Characters do things that make no sense throughout, especially the two main characters. There are no consequences or lasting effects for anything they do or anything that happens to them. Major injuries are shrugged off, laws are broken with no consequences, characters do things no even marginally intelligent person would ever do. A prime example of this is the main character finally identifying the killer and just walking into his house without a thought...with a screwdriver from his truck his only protection! No one is that stupid, except apparently the people who wrote this movie, or they think the viewing public is. There's a lot more of that type of thing but after awhile it all seemed to blur together.

So after realizing I'd seen it before but still not really remembering it I watched the rest of it. Ok, I was probably just too lazy to look for something else to watch and let's be honest, Annabelle Wallis is not hard to look at. But that brings me to another major flaw in this movie; Who thought it was a good idea to cast an English actress who looks like a supermodel as the sheriff of a backwater mid-western town??? Ms. Wallis is a good actress but even she couldn't pull that off. She looked absurd in the role and off the top of my head I can think of so many other actresses who would have been a better choice...dozens of them.

Coster-Waldau is much better as the drunk washed up hunter. His character does some galactically stupid things in this movie but that's not his fault, he didn't write the script. He does the best he can with what's there.

Zahn McClarnon also does a pretty good job in his role and his character isn't called upon to be quite as dense as the others in the movie so he's got that going for him.

Overall the plot is just bad, in the end the killer comes out of nowhere and we're given absolutely no explanation about how he became such a skilled hunter and why he decided to kill young girls and cut their vocal cords. His daughter was killed by a drunk driver not a young girl. And as far as we know that drunk driver wasn't a mute. I kept thinking that there must have been additional scenes explaining all this that had been edited out. The movie only has a 90 minute run time so if that's true they really should have left them in...or shot them in the first place.

Worst of all though is that the writers resorted to the most amateurish trope in writing; having a character that's barely in the film and that we know nothing about end up being the killer.

So I watched this movie twice and while it did have a few good points that was still two times too many.

If you even like the original Road House a little bit steer well clear of this piece of drek. This is just another Hollywood gutting of a well known title.

The original was a classic 80's action flick, it was fun, over-the-top and didn't take itself too seriously. And it actually had a story. Famous bouncer cleans up a bar and clashes with a small town criminal kingpin.

I'm not sure what this movie is, I'm certainly not sure why it was even made other than because this is what Hollywood does now; "remake" a popular old film to cash in on the title then turn out a soul-less abomination that not only bears no relation to the original but bears no relation to a coherent, well written, well acted or well directed film either.

The characters here are cartoons for the most part. The bar plays almost no role in the movie at all. There's really nothing that can be called a coherent plot. This is just yet another Netflix action movie with no heart and very little talent behind it. I hope Jake Gyllenhaal at least got the studio to pay for the personal trainer that got him all jacked up.

Watch the original and leave it at that.

I'd been meaning to watch this movie for a while because it looked offbeat and interesting. Turns out it was both.

The cast here is superb throughout and so is the acting, by everyone. Lots of familiar faces and some newer ones and they all do a great job. And of course Margo Martindale is always fun to watch. The story is a bit muddled and can be slow moving at times but for those here who are complaining that there wasn't an ending there certainly was, you just have to pay attention.

The movie captured the atmosphere of a small, gritty Maine town perfectly, both with the characters and the cinematography. The same with the characters. The story was a bit of a stretch but not so much that it loses the viewer. I enjoyed the story and most of all the great cast. There are much worse movies out there these days believe me. My only real sticking point was the singing fisherman. I know some here loved them, I found then beyond annoying and after the second musical interlude I found myself hitting the mute button on my remote. They could have lost them and I think it would have been an improvement.

I've been fascinated by the battle of Midway since I read a novel in grade school called "Flight Deck" by an author named Robb White. Mr. White had actually been there so while the book was geared toward adolescents he knew what he was talking about and the detail was excellent.

One of the things that's always haunted me about this battle was the number of aircraft crews that were lost because they were shot down, survived but were never found (this story) or ran out of fuel before they were able to return to their carriers, something that occurred more than you'd like to think in this battle. I read somewhere that the last crew picked up in a life raft was found nine days after the battle. The thought of all the men who were never found and died slow, lonely and horrible deaths either in the water or in life rafts has always stuck with me.

That's what this movie tried to portray by focusing on one SBD Dauntless crew who were seen to land in the water but were never found. There's an attempt at back stories but they're very poorly written and aren't very effective. The main thing the movie is trying to portray are the fates of all those lost men. So when I read other reviews here that complain about the movie not focusing on the actual battle or there being "too much water" I have to wonder if those reviewers actually got what this movie was about. Seems that they really didn't.

I'm glad someone tried to present a story about all those lost flyers. I just wish it had been better than what this movie is. The acting is terrible throughout, Other than C. Thomas Howell and Judd Nelson (neither of whom did a great job either) I've never heard of any of the actors here. The story lines are poorly written and developed and as already stated here multiple times, the dialogue is bad, to the point of being cringe worthy at times. The dynamic between Nelson's admiral and the Enterprises captain is terrible and completely unrealistic to actual events. The crew of the Catalina are mostly caricatures of what the actors thought sailors in the 1940's would act like when if fact they come off more like 1950's greasers. And this may sound a bit petty but most of the main characters were a bit odd looking. I can't really put my finger on exactly why, they just were. The pilot who ended up in the water looked like he'd botoxed his entire face prior to filming. The Catalina pilot looked like his eyebrows and five o'clock shadow were painted onto his face. Not a major point but just something that added to the lousy impression you got while watching the movie.

The historical accuracy as far as the aircraft and ships go was fine, though the CGI left a lot to be desired. The interactions between the characters was another story, it didn't come across as very authentic to the period or very sincere but with so much bad writing and bad acting it was kind of hard to tell. I'm glad someone thought this story was worth telling because it is, I just wish it had been done better, a lot better.

Netflix has perfected the art (I use that term loosely here) of churning out cliqued, ho hum action movies that usually try to see how many earlier, better movies they can steal ideas from then use those ideas badly.

Rebel Moon a sci fi version of this formula just as The Grey Man was a spy thriller version of it and Extraction Two was a shoot-em-up version of it. But here it's really pushed to the nth degree. The plot of this movie is lifted from several other, better movies, there's really nothing original here at all and you know what's going to happen way before it does. Throughout it's 2+ hour run time (!) you keep getting the feeling: "where have I seen all this before?"

Add to that an incredible number of cliques and worn out plot devices and characters who are so two dimensional that if they turned sideways they'd disappear and you've got Rebel Moon.

And once again we have the 100 pound woman who can kick the butt of any guy twice her size with twice her body mass. God this has been done to death! It's so overused that it just looks stupid now but here it's made worse by the fact that Sophie Boutella looks like a strong wind would blow her away and her fight choreography is really awful, almost as bad as her acting. She really just doesn't have the chops to carry a movie, even a good one and this isn't one of those. That she's backed up here by a cast of cliqued, uninteresting, two dimensional and badly acted characters just makes it more noticeable.

The "story" just moves from plot point to plot point through holes in the that plot big enough to fly a space ship through and characters doing nonsensical stuff because the script tells them to. Everything that happens is boring and predictable and at times an actual insult to the viewers intelligence. Bad story, bad acting, bad action scenes and bad CGI are all you're going to get here. If that sounds like fun to you then enjoy and wait eagerly for part two. Personally I think wasting over two hours on part one is sufficient.

Was Expedition Unknown kind of cheesy and put on, sure, and Josh never actually found anything. But it was entertaining and often included interesting back stories and history about the topic of the week. Some of the things Josh went after were a complete joke but others were historically true and I found them interesting even though I knew how the episodes usually ended. And Josh did lend both humor and a bit of common sense to each episode.

Expedition X is another animal entirely. I've only watched a few episodes before bailing because they really were nonsense. Jessica Chabot being credited as a "paranormal investigator" was the first red flag; she's a voice over actor and professional "host" whatever that is. I remember her from Battlebots for gods sake. She's there as eye candy and that's all. And it became apparent almost immediately that she has no idea what she's doing.

The other guy, can't remember his name, isn't much better. And Josh makes appearances at the beginning and at different junctures to I guess lend some "star power" to the episodes. The entire thing is very lame and hard to watch and I wonder why Josh was willing to pretty much trash whatever credibility he had by being involved in this nonsense. Not worth your time.

One thing Netflix is great at is churning out an endless stream of mindless "action movies". Shoot em up's that are un-original, riddled with cliques, oh so predictable, and a waste of your viewing time.

I'll admit that they sucked me in again, even after I'd recently watched The Gray Man and Extraction II. You would think I'd know better by now!

This movie uses an old and well worn plot device; lets rob a drug cartel guy because he's a bad guy anyway so it'll be ok. Oh, and also the standard motely crew of ex-special forces guys who can't adjust to the world and have money troubles. Throw in a disillusioned DEA Agent and there's your clique cast of characters. And anyone who didn't know that by the end of the move they would learn an important lesson about it not being ok to rob and kill because it's just drug guys hasn't already seen many of these movies.

My biggest problem with this movie was it's predictability. Ben Affleck drops his daughter off at school and they share a bittersweet moment where he says he loves her and she says she misses him. Translation; he's going to die.

They steal the money then talk about the weight in regards to their helicopter getting over the mountains to facilitate their getaway. Translation; they're not going to make it over the mountains.

They crash in a small village and end up killing a few villagers, one of the dead villagers sons gives them the hairy eyeball as they leave. Translation; he's going to turn up later and do something bad to them. And he does; he kills Ben Affleck, because someone had to.

There were more, many more but those are the ones that immediately come to mine. God I hate predictable writing!

Another problem with this movie is that the hardened SF guys act like just that...sometimes, other times they do really stupid stuff or miss really obvious stuff because the script tells them to. And still other times, like when they find the money, they act like high school kids jumping around like idiots. No thoughts of the Cartel leader still loose in the house, or perimeter defense or anything else. Finally they time and again make absurd decisions that no one with their backgrounds would ever make; sure we can lug six hundred pounds of cash across the Andes Mountains, no problem at all. Or; omg, one of us got killed, really didn't think that would happen while robbing a cartel boss in his own country, darn.

The characters in this story change from one thing to something else at the drop of a hat because the script tells them to. They're all badly written and not all that well acted.

And of course in the end Affleck's character does die, they loose most of the money (gee, didn't see that one coming either!) and realize that what they did was just bad, even though they knew exactly what they were doing and that someone might die, one of them I mean, because they didn't seem to have any problem at all with a lot of locals dieing. And they give the money they managed to keep to Affleck's daughter and ex-wife because gosh darn it, it's the right thing to do. Please, another plot line that's older than movies themselves and that like most of the other plot developments, I saw coming way before it arrived.

Oh, and to extend run time there's a very long and very boring journey through the mountains as they're trying to escape with the cash during which they have an epiphany about stealing, and killing, and maybe cheating on their taxes too, I'm not sure because by that point I was actually debating whether I would even finish watching this drek so I fast forwarded through most of that to finally get to the end.

I knew everything that was going to happen in this movie before it did, and I felt like I'd seen it a hundred times before, usually in much better movies with much better acting. But hey Netflix; you just keep churning out these poorly written, clique riddled, poorly directed and acted pieces of junk.... I'll be watching something else.

I'm from Boston and work in the city but I just watched this movie yesterday for the first time. Several reasons for that; I don't care for movies about criminals and this partly has that aspect to it. I also don't like the way Hollywood depicts neighborhoods of Boston being populated only be uneducated white trash losers. Do they exist, sure, but they're a very small part of Boston and yet that's all that anyone in Hollywood seems to know about the city. And I realize this movie is from a novel by Dennis Lehane who is from here too and Mr. Lehane can write about anything he wants. I'm just pretty tired of it. I haven't read Lehane's books for that very reason.

But I finally did watch it and to be honest I wish I had trusted my initial instincts and continued to pass on it. It's a depressing dysfunctional story that I really didn't need to see. From my point of view this movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Not a single character is likable or sympathetic, I honestly didn't care about any of them Not to mention two hours of watching Sean Penn chew up scenery and overact until I thought his head would explode. The last movie I liked Penn in was Racing With the Moon and that was a very long time ago. He is such an over-rated actor.

Kevin Bacon was just ok, I've seen him do much better in other movies. The rest of the actors were just ok with the exception of Laura Linney who with one or two scenes nailed the portrait of a psychotic wife who was probably one of the scariest characters in the film. Kudos to her at least.

A lot of Clint Eastwood directed movies are dark and not very much fun to watch, Million Dollar Baby comes to mind. And I know what he's trying to do and the messages he's trying to get across...he just went way overboard here. I will say that it's well directed and filmed, and those are the only two good things I can say about it.

This movie has no redeeming qualities that I could see but hey, if you're looking for something to watch on a Saturday night and think your life is just a little bit too happy and you're feeling a tad too good about yourself then watch Mystic River; it will depress the hell out of you in no time at all.

I put off watching Mad Max, Fury Road because I loved the first three Max movies, yes, even Thunderdome which actually may be my favorite of the three, and I didn't want to see the franchise ruined by modern Hollywood bs which I suspected when I saw Theron as the lead.

But I finally watched in and although I almost bailed in the first twenty minutes or so from freak overload I stuck around and am glad I did. Is this movie on par with it's three predecessors? No, it's not, but it wasn't bad either, it does entertain throughout it's run time, even if it's in a very simplistic way.

Back in the 70's (dating myself here!) chase films were big for a while; Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Vanishing Point, a few others. They consisted of just enough character development and plot to get by but mostly consisted of one long chase scene. That's what this movie is.

We don't learn much new about Max, or most of the other characters. We do learn Theron's characters back story but that's about it. The characters and "plot" are only there to support an action film that consists of a two hour chase through the desert and not much else.

The stunts are very cool, as befitting a Mad Max movie, the vehicles are also cool, as is the makeup, although the freak meter could have been dialed back a few clicks. And it did hold my attention throughout. But at the end of the day it's really nothing more that a lot of noise and explosions and loud music...I didn't hate it, and I don't think it tarnished the Mad Max legacy, but it didn't really live up to it either. If they're going to make more Max movies, and I hear they are, I don't think they'll be able to get away with this again. There needs to be more to it than there was here.

Like a lot of iffy movies on streaming services I watched this one while home sick. It's two hours of my life that I wish I could get back. I also think it made me relapse, it was that bad.

The story is a joke, never mind that it's a total rip off of numerous other movies and TV shows; Falling Skies for one. But I could have let that go because the aliens invading earth plot is as old as electronic media. I could have let it go...if the movie wasn't so god awful.

The writing is amateurish and clumsy with plot twists that strain credibility to the breaking point, even in a movie about invading aliens. The direction and editing is just as bad. The characters are all cliques and the acting is simply atrocious throughout. But the prize for bad acting has to go to Stephany Jacobsen, she was so bad that her scenes actually pull you right out of the story, not that there was much story to be pulled out of.

Characters do absurd things just to fit plot points. Characters miraculously come back from near death injuries at the drop of a hat because they're needed for the next absurd plot line. The action scenes make no sense and are very badly put together and filmed, and events are telegraphed to the point that several times a character did something and I immediately knew they were going to die. And last but certainly not least, the aliens are just incompetent enough to allow the puny humans to triumph in the end. Wow, didn't see that coming.

But the action scenes were the absolute worst. They were so cheesy and clichéd and over the top that I lost track of how many times I actually laughed out loud while watching them...pretty sure that's not the reaction the dolts who made this movie were going for. It's about the same amount of times scenes went to slow motion in a lame attempt to make them more impactful. What it did was make them more laughable.

And of course in the end we're subjected to the same old crap about us ruining the planet and that the aliens aren't really that bad once you get to know them, after they've wiped out half the human race. I really can't believe anyone would put up the money to make a sequel to this movie. Maybe that's a sign that we really do deserve to be wiped out by aliens...

I watched this movie on a streaming service after 30 minutes of surfing through several of them looking for something to watch. Finally I saw this and said what the hell, if I don't pick something soon it'll be my bed time. And it had an interesting cast so...

The movie is basically a boring half hour lead up to an hour long shootout where everyone apparently showed up that night with cases of ammunition because no one ever runs out and people are shot multiple times but hang in there until they arrive at the page in the script with their actual death scene. You're never sure anyone is dead until it's made glaringly clear that they're dead because the characters are all like the energizer bunny, they just keep going. The only guy I was sure wasn't going to get up again was the one who's head was run over with a van.

And I saw the twist ending coming a mile away and I hate that in a movie. There's only one female in the movie...gee, do you think that signifies something important??

Another thing was that besides Armie Hammer all the actors, including Cillian Murphy and Brie Larson seemed like they were sleep walking through their roles, no one put in a lot of effort on this one. And the characters were also so similar it was hard to tell some of them apart, they were all cookie cutter hoods. And that was another thing that made Brie Larson's character stand out as in; she's there for a specific reason, could it be....a plot twist??

All in all this movie was mildly entertaining but barely. I didn't bemoan the fact that I spent an hour and a half of my life on it but it was close, very close. If you've been rooting around looking for something to watch forever and are about to give up...give it a shot. That's about as strong a recommendation as I can give...

This is one of those movies that you've probably never heard of but should have. Because it's one of those movies that, when it's over, you'll be happy you watched it. If you went to summer camp as a kid it will make you nostalgic for those days, if you didn't go to summer camp as a kid it will make you wish you had.

The cast is solid and they all interact well together, the story isn't Shakespeare but it doesn't need to be. It's funny and occasionally sad or thoughtful and while I've never recommended that anyone turn to Hollywood to learn life lessons this movie will at least make you think a bit about your own life, where it's been and where it's going.

But mostly it's just a really entertaining movie that should keep you engaged for 90 minutes and leave you thoughtful and happy when it's over. That's a lot more than many movies do these days. It's one of my all time favorites and if you're looking for a movie night or rainy afternoon movie you can't do any better.

This movie moves at a glacial pace made worse by the plodding and often nonsensical actions of the characters. It takes them minutes, a lot of minutes, to do something that should have happened immediately.

The story is simple to the point of being nonsensical as well; someone had a simplistic but heavy handed message about we terrible humans destroying the planet but didn't know how to make it interesting or even coherent. So they made this movie instead.

There are only four characters. None of them are particularly interesting and they all do things that make very little sense, some that are actually an insult to the audiences intelligence. And in the end it turns out that one of the two real main characters is a cold blooded killer but the other one forgives them instantly because....well, for no reason that makes sense other than it's necessary for the silly, and I do mean silly, ending to occur.

Very slow movie with a very poorly written script. About the only good thing I can say about it is that the cinematography wasn't bad. Don't bother unless you want to be lulled to sleep while having your intelligence insulted all at the same time.

I really did enjoy this movie but, it wasn't an easy film to watch. Obviously the length was a challenge to sit through, especially with such a slow moving story. But it was a complex story and I can understand the need for that.

The thing that almost ruined it for me was one of Nolan's trademarks; blaring music and sound effects that have you scrambling for the volume control and cursing his name as you do it. It was jarring to the point of being very annoying and it pulled you out of the story. Someone needs to tell Nolan that it doesn't add a dramatic flair to his films, it just pisses off his viewers. It detracts from the story, it really does.

In the end the movie was something of a chore to get through, overly long, slowly paced, jarring sound track, but I'm still glad I watched it. It was such a refreshing change from superhero movies and brain dead action movies...and who knew Robert Downey Jr could was actually a good actor!?!?

I find it really amazing that this show has been dropping naked morons off in the wilderness for ten years now and there are still people out there watching it. Really...I weep for the future.

So now apparently it's not enough to turn them loose in the desert, or jungle or savannah...no, that's too tame. Now they're dropping them off, still naked and afraid, and brain dead, and covered with body tattoos (I think that's actually a requirement for this show and isn't it attractive...). In the middle of winter in frozen landscapes. It's still abject stupidity, just with snow. I don't believe it's authentic any more than I did the other versions but I have to admit, it does make the contestants appear to be even more idiotic than in the past which really is saying something. Next they'll probably just dump two naked imbeciles in the middle of the ocean and see if they can swim to shore. And god help us all there will be people out there who will watch it. It's really a bit frightening.

I loved the original film from the 80's and was pleased to see Michael Pare again when I came across this movie on a streaming service. Plus I was home sick with the flu and parked on the sofa so I thought how bad could it be? Pretty damn bad as it turned out and Michael Pare deserved so much better.

The basic plot was really absurd and made no sense at all. The cast was riddled with cartoon characters, the worst being the female fed who was supposed to be in charge. She was basically a full blown psychopath whos actions throughout the movie were absurd to the point of being comical. And she was played in a completely over-the-top manner by an actress I've never heard of. This woman killed people; civilians, her own troops, foreigners, willy nilly while completely ignoring the very people who could solve the problem for her, or killing them too. Her reasoning and motivation for pretty much everything she did made absolutely no sense, she was there just to chew up scenery and be the bad guy...and she did it so badly.

Unfortunately she was just the tip of the iceberg in this movie; the storyline made even less sense than anything she did with plot holes big enough to sail the ship in question right through. Said ship was supposed to show up every eight hours or so (don't recall exactly) but it makes two appearances within minutes of one another with no explanation for it. Actually you're never sure why it's there in the first place and how the fix they come up with is supposed to work. And the movies ends with a feel good scene that makes as little sense as the rest of the story. Good writing is hard.

The CGI was second rate as well, as was most of the cast; the acting was amateurish for the most part. Even Malcolm McDowell, who was only on screen for a few minutes, over-acted his part. I can only assume he needed the money for him to agree to a cameo in this piece of trash.

I really do wish Hollywood would stop remaking great old movies because for the most part they're terrible at it.

I'd pretty much gleaned the message behind this movie just from the previews when it was first released so I passed on it. Yesterday, while home sick with the flu I decided to watch it and it's pretty much exactly what I thought it was. A heavy handed political allegory ala Hollywood that tries, not very hard, to disguise itself as a science fiction story.

The message is heavy handed to the point that the plot really doesn't make any sense in the end. The world the movie creates is a caricature created only to the the message they want to tell across. The characters do things that make little or no sense and and final outcome is really just silly.

I will say that the CGI wasn't bad and some of the action scenes, what there were of them, were ok too but that's about it. And they really don't make it worth sitting through this movie.

This isn't a terrible movie, I watched it to the end, but much like the second Extraction movie that Netflix recently released it's just a cookie-cutter, check your brain at the door, cliché ridden action film. Maybe there's nothing new to be done in action movies but jeez, at least try.

The cliché's here pile up very early on; the man with no name professional killer who's actually not a bad guy. His boss who used to direct him to kill people who's also not a bad guy. The new boss who is corrupt and nasty and IS a bad guy. The female agent who kicks ass even though she's about the size of a smurf. And last but certainly not least; the funny psycho with lots of snarky lines.

Then the action cliché's and boy there are many. They shoot up a city, or cities, without any real repercussions. They get shot, the crap beaten out of them, blown up, tortured, and in the next scene by god they're ready to go!

The final one, and the one that actually made me finally regret sticking around for it, was the climatic battle between the main character and the psycho. Good guy is beating the snot out of him but no, that doesn't heighten the tension for the viewer (as if we all didn't know how it would end) so, suddenly the bad guy pulls a knife and the good guy just as suddenly forgets how to fight and starts losing! Oh no, what's going to happen...just once I'd like to see an action movie where the hero isn't pushed juuuusst to the edge of losing before suddenly finding something deep within himself to come back and win the day. In this case it was a childhood memory. It's old, it's lazy writing, it's been done to death...please stop doing it. Have some imagination for god's sake.

There's lots more that makes this just another mindless globe trotting video game with real people but why beat a dead horse. On the plus side; for Netflix, who make some truly abysmal films, most of them actually, this one is at least mildly entertaining, mildly, if you can get past all the stuff you've seen a thousand times before. The Bourne Identity it ain't.

This isn't on par with the first movie, or the second or amazingly, even the third. It seems to have been slap-dashed together in a couple of weeks; the writing is bad but the acting is even worse. It lacks the magic of the first movie and as I said, can't even measure up to the second or third movies which I wouldn't have thought would be that difficult to do! The story is scattered and wanders all over the place.

And of course Disney being the Disney it is today they've got to inject their cultural agenda into the story, a story that is about Santa and is for kids. It's really incredible that they seem to be intent on completely destroying their own legacy as...well...Disney.

I was actually looking forward to this series being a fan of the first movie...my wife and I didn't make it past episode three....a great opportunity missed.

Instead of this Disney should be making more Prep & Landing episodes, now those were entertaining and great holiday fare, we watch then every year.

When this film was announced I must admit I was skeptical that such a complex story could be made into a series. When I saw that Netflix was behind it I grew still more skeptical. My wife and I both loved the novel...we only got halfway through episode two of this abomination before tuning it out and moving on.

If you haven't read the book you may find this enjoyable as a typical Netflix war film. If you have read the book then you shouldn't bother because there's little you will recognize from it in this film. The writing here is terrible, the acting is just passable, and the characterizations do not come close to capturing those from the book. Most of the German military members are portrayed as raging psychopaths, the two main characters, the blind French girl (with an English accent through most of the film) and the German soldier, are very poorly portrayed here with neither actor (nor the writers) capturing the very complicated essence of either of them.

There are story lines here that were not in the book at all and others that were central to the book that are missing completely. It's just lazy and incompetent writing, nothing more.

If you're going to attempt to translate a Pulitzer Prize winning novel to film you should be willing to devote the necessary air time to it, you should hire competent writers and actors...and you shouldn't be Netflix.

This was a great opportunity to turn a truly incredible novel into a great movie and Netflix missed it completely.

If you've read the book and loved it don't waste your time. If you read the book, loved it, and give this drek a good rating then you didn't get the book at all.

Parts of this movie may be partially accurate but overall it's laced with Hollywood BS. The most egregious example is when Chastain's character first briefs the SEAL teams about the mission. When they express some doubt about Bin Laden actually being there her response; "I didn't want to use you guys in the first place with your dip and your Velcro and your gear. I wanted to drop a bomb." (paraphrasing) First of all, I seriously doubt they'd drop a bomb because getting ironclad confirmation of the kill was crucial. Secondly, no real SEAL would take that crap from a Langley analyst. And third; no real analyst worth holding the title would disrespect the guys who are about to risk their lives on her theory in that way, not if they had any small clue what they were doing.

That one scene pretty much sums up how Hollywood Hollywooded this movie. The depiction of the actual raid wasn't bad, the rest should be taken with a healthy grain of salt.