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Shôgun (2024)
Who picked this actor?
Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work (except for the missing lighting crew!) etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Plus nobody believes that a character like Mariko falls in love with a character like Blackthorne. Absolutely no chemistry. Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Plus did the DP forget his lighting truck on the parking lot in Vancouver? This show is darker than it ever was at that time in Japan and the constant rain from the Pacific Northwest seems to be not very much like the weather I remember from Japan!😉
Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work (except for the missing lighting crew!) etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Plus did the DP forget his lighting truck on the parking lot in Vancouver? This show is darker than it ever was at that time in Japan and the constant rain from the Pacific Northwest seems to be not very much like the weather I remember from Japan!😉
Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work (except for the missing lighting crew!) etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Everything is great. The Japanese actors, the production design, the camera work etc., but who picked the actor who plays Blackthorne? He is not up to the task and ruins this great show. This acting capabilities can much anyone around him. Not charismatic at all makes it hard to follow his story while everything else is just well executed. Sometimes good cast can lift up a show, here it does the opposite! Plus did the DP forget his lighting truck on the parking lot in Vancouver? This show is darker than it ever was at that time in Japan and the constant rain from the Pacific Northwest seems to be not very much like the weather I remember from Japan!😉
The Regime (2024)
Why?
What is the point? How can such great talent go so wrong? What is the intention? Why should I spend time with these characters? Is is parody and if yes about what or whom? Why would someone green light such a script? Nothing stays out. It is just dull. What is the point? How can such great talent go so wrong? What is the intention? Why should I spend time with these characters? Is is parody and if yes about what or whom? Why would someone green light such a script? Nothing stays out. It is just dull. What is the point? How can such great talent go so wrong? What is the intention? Why should I spend time with these characters? Is is parody and if yes about what or whom? Why would someone green light such a script? Nothing stays out. It is just dull.
Napoleon (2023)
Uninspired
What a conventional approach and completely uninspired. Just another example of Ridley Scott loosing his way. Zero chemistry of the main characters and a very dull Phoenix just adding to the drama. Camera work is even more conventional. Overall a big disappointment. What a conventional approach and completely uninspired. Just another example of Ridley Scott loosing his way. Zero chemistry of the main characters and a very dull Phoenix just adding to the drama. Camera work is even more conventional. Overall a big disappointment. What a conventional approach and completely uninspired. Just another example of Ridley Scott loosing his way. Zero chemistry of the main characters and a very dull Phoenix just adding to the drama. Camera work is even more conventional. Overall a big disappointment.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Too long, too confusing in the beginning and a mediocre DiCaprio
This film doesn't need the three hours to tell the story. Too long and extremely incoherent in the beginning. DiCaprio is mediocre at best. Director seem to be afraid to actually work with DiCaprio. He ruins the movie and not even de Niro can save it. This film doesn't need the three hours to tell the story. Too long and extremely incoherent in the beginning. DiCaprio is mediocre at best. Director seem to be afraid to actually work with DiCaprio. He ruins the movie and not even de Niro can save it. This film doesn't need the three hours to tell the story. Too long and extremely incoherent in the beginning. DiCaprio is mediocre at best. Director seem to be afraid to actually work with DiCaprio. He ruins the movie and not even de Niro can save it.
Reptile (2023)
Too much music...
Oh come on! Why so much music? The whole film feels more like a musical. Totally unnecessary. Great acting, good script. Nice camera work although the DP forgot at least one lighting truck at the base. So why not trust it? Instead I get hammered with this thriller style music all the time. It just doesn't make sense and ruins the good impression of this film!
Oh come on! Why so much music? The whole film feels more like a musical. Totally unnecessary. Great acting, good script. Nice camera work although the DP forgot at least one lighting truck at the base. So why not trust it? Instead I get hammered with this thriller style music all the time. It just doesn't make sense and ruins the good impression of this film!
Jack Ryan: Bethesda (2023)
Too boring, too slow
It's time to shut this down. It's just too boring and too slow. First season had his moments but since then it all went downhill from there. This particular season is just the end of a very long process in which a show lost his purpose. Nice locations and decent acting is not enough. I guess all people the behind this show know their job bit it certainly didn't play out very well here! It's time to shut this down. It's just too boring and too slow. First season had his moments but since then it all went downhill from there. This particular season is just the end of a very long process in which a show lost his purpose. Nice locations and decent acting is not enough. I guess all people the behind this show know their job bit it certainly didn't play out very well here! It's time to shut this down. It's just too boring and too slow. First season had his moments but since then it all went downhill from there. This particular season is just the end of a very long process in which a show lost his purpose. Nice locations and decent acting is not enough. I guess all people the behind this show know their job bit it certainly didn't play out very well here!
Last Seen Alive (2022)
Better then I thought
Straight clear forward action thriller! You are right in the movie. No exposition! Liked it. Good entertainment! Yes Butler overacted but when does he not. But support actors are great in particular Russell Hornsby and Jamie Alexander. Good dirty camera work and good directing! Straight clear forward action thriller! You are right in the movie. No exposition! Liked it. Good entertainment! Yes Butler overacted but when does he not. But support actors are great in particular Russell Hornsby and Jamie Alexander. Good dirty camera work and good directing! Straight clear forward action thriller! You are right in the movie. No exposition! Liked it. Good entertainment! Yes Butler overacted but when does he not. But support actors are great in particular Russell Hornsby and Jamie Alexander. Good dirty camera work and good directing!
Yellowjackets: Friends, Romans, Countrymen (2023)
Bad start in season two
Really a bad start into the second season. First ten minutes are totally wrong in terms of editing. Horrible rhythm. Plus directing is below average. Some actors overact terrible. Really hard to get into a rhythm watching this episode! Very disappointing. I hope they get their act together throughout the season. Otherwise I am done with this show! Really a bad start into the second season. First ten minutes are totally wrong in terms of editing. Horrible rhythm. Plus directing is below average. Some actors overact terrible. Really hard to get into a rhythm watching this episode! Very disappointing. I hope they get their act together throughout the season. Otherwise I am done with this show!
The Mandalorian: Chapter 18: The Mines of Mandalore (2023)
Who wrote those dialogues?
Great show, nice cast, beautiful shot and executed BUT the dialogues are frankly a disaster. That's child book level and everyone in a film school would be fired if someone would write those words. Stiff and annoying. Childish and not real words more phrases. Very disappointing for such great show. Great show, nice cast, beautiful shot and executed BUT the dialogues are frankly a disaster. That's child book level and everyone in a film school would be fired if someone would write those words. Stiff and annoying. Childish and not real words more phrases. Very disappointing for such great show.!
The Contractor (2022)
Bette then expected
Actually much better then expected. Great actors and a decent story. Good execution and solid directing! Definitely something you can watch and enjoy. Story is well told and Chris Pine is doing a great job keeping it together.
Actually much better then expected. Great actors and a decent story. Good execution and solid directing! Definitely something you can watch and enjoy. Story is well told and Chris Pine is doing a great job keeping it together.
Actually much better then expected. Great actors and a decent story. Good execution and solid directing! Definitely something you can watch and enjoy. Story is well told and Chris Pine is doing a great job keeping it together.
Jack Ryan: Falcon (2022)
Why is that so hard?
I don't get it! Why is so hard to make a good thriller today? Season was already mediocre at best but this one is even worse. I never have seen a more boring and slow season opener. Minutes of cars driving and people walking through hallways. Almost nothing happens and when it happens it so full of cliches it is embarrassing! The best you can say it us timely but the rest is just downright tv from the eighties. Dialogue's are close a comic strip. The storytelling is linear like a straight line without any surprises! Acting is feeling very flat. Everyone is as he expected, no ambivalent characters. Is that modern tv we all talking about? No it's the opposite!
The Crown: The System (2022)
Dull and boring
It's not the best start in a new season of THE CROWN. It feels very dull and boring. Each episode feels way to long and the scenes drag on way too long. The suspense is lacking throughout the scenes. The new actors still try to get their footing and only Dominic West and Jonathan Pryce have found their part. I am not sure where this show lost its purpose but it feels there is not enough to tell and their loge and subsequently the show becomes more boring by the minute. I really hope they pick up their pace foe the rest of the season otherwise I might have to say goodbye to a show I really did like for some time!
House of the Dragon (2022)
Can someone please start directing the king?!
Paddy Considine is certainly a great actor but his performance as the king is off the mark and hurts the Show! Can someone please start working with him and make him better? The show has a great and balanced cast so I really don't get why the let him go wild! The show itself is so well executed and well written that I think it deserves a better lead! I am sure he can come around if the directing is clear! Other than that all the departments doing a great job and I am intrigued! That was actually all I wanted to say but now IMDB wants to write more then 600 characters so continue writing so they let me release this review!
Bølgen (2015)
Well executed!
It is a disaster movie with all the pros and cons storywise but the execution is great and extremely realistic. Good acting and great VFX and camera work!
The Gray Man (2022)
Cliche, cliche, cliche
Not sure whether this is a Comic or a movie? But what I am sure is that it is full of cliches! Everything has been seem and done before. Nothing exceptional everything pretty basic. Missed opportunity, Netflix payed too much for a mediocre movie!
Transplant: Saviours (2022)
Bad Episode
That episode didn't work out. Confusing storylines. Unbelievable turns. Episode was incoherent. Sorry but you have to do better to keep engaged! But maybe the next one is better.
The Old Man: VI (2022)
The show is not improving...
Episode six was the weakest episode so far! Directing felt like stage theater. Heavy dialogue scenes even made heavier to the point of being pretentious by the the way they were directed! Plus a few of these sense are simply too long. Slow burner turns into boring episode. I hope the come back to the quality of the first couple of episodes!
The Terminal List (2022)
Predictable, predictable, predictable
Come on! I almost have never seen a more predictable show! Fallen hero with a good heart goes on a revenge tour. Everything, every word, every turn is predictable and has been done before! Yes execution is okay! But that's not enough these days!
The Man from Toronto (2022)
Seriously?
The director never had made a decent movie before and this another failure! It's not funny nor particularly unique! The film has no direction nor an intriguing script! Actors wasted!
Hustle (2022)
The Cruz Missile
When you play or played the game you will really appreciate that film. Yes it is the traditional story line like against all odds but it is very well executed and tells the story in modern way. Finally a movie about the foreign players in the NBA and there stories how they got into the NBA. Really enjoyed it!
Tehran: The Rich Kids (2022)
Still not a good show!
Wants to be Homeland but isn't! I thought the the second season would be better but unfortunately it is not. Even Glenn Close can't save it. The plot is too thin and there is no one you really care for. Emotionally flat and without real suspense. Another miss!
The Valet (2022)
Sorry...
Derbez is ruining the movie, sorry! Everyone is acting okay but he is overplaying it totally. It have been an okay film but so it drops below average. Missed opportunity here. Director and producers could have done a better job!
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Kids stuff...
Maybe I am too old for this but this is Kids program. Literally and figuratively! It will similiar to the Mandalorian structurally but is not as good. Directing is flat and the story is not really moving forward until the last act in the second episode. Acting feels generic but maybe will improve. Feels like a show which is still trying to find its purpose!
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
Solid
Solid show and really enjoying the pace and the acting! Including Madison Lintz work! Yes she started of rather untalented but it seems she worked very hard over the years and obviously has the right people helping her to become a very good actress. In other words they succeeded and bashing her is not helpful! Don't forget she works next to actors and actresses like Mimi Rogers and Titus Welliver! Considering that he she is now (!) a great job. And the show works!
Tokyo Vice (2022)
Delivered
It took a while for this show to be made but the result is pretty cool! Michael Mann knows how to do interesting thriller and delivers again. Great atmosphere, great camera work and a great cast! Good stuff and shows that HBO is still the gold standard...not Netflix!;)