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Echo 3 (2022)
This is a solid action take on a CIA action thriller genre.
Reviewers giving this poor reviews based on 3 relieved episodes should wait. A lot of people confuse a series show with how tv series used to be in the episodic nature. They forget that many of series like this are basically a 8 or 10 hour movie. Give it time to build up for crying out loud. However even as it stands the episodes are well paced. First episode gives a little background on the characters while second gives background on locations and it is well done. Very well done. Characters introduced as needed and most of them don't need an emotional attachment to viewers. Only a few do and even then what attachment do you need to the character for it to matter when they are kidnapped or murdered? Some people who give this show a poor rating either didn't watch it, don't understand it or compare it to something else. For what it is supposed to be, it does it exceptionally well.
Action is great and that's that this show is. An action thriller movie split into 10 parts. Solid 8. Maybe 8.5 even if it continues at this pace. Had to leave a review now because so many people are already leaving poor reviews. If you want to do it now, do it per episode. Not for that while show.
De Familie Claus (2020)
The typical hallmark channel quality movie. But more cringe.
Even my 11 year old thought this was a poorly written and directed movie. No real love for detail, plot or characters found anywhere. This was a difficult watch and I watch the hallmark channel movies with my wife regularly and even tolerate them. Yet this was somehow harder. It's like someone just made this to make a movie for holidays to say they did. There's better movies out there to watch for holidays. This one isn't worth the time.
To explain a little more: The characters are shallow, 1 dimensional and 180 on the spot without real buildup or growth. Scene setting quality is really poor. Holding a list of presents for an entire country and talking about how much work still left and the whole list is maybe 10 names tops. Packing manually for every kid in the country? Seriously? I mean a lot of stupid things they could have easily written off to "Santa or Elf magic" but instead decided to make mundane and boring as hell. No depth at all. And acting is very shallow and poor. Maybe a 4-7 year old crowd might enjoy it. But my 11 year old was bored, my wife who watched hallmark channel movies was bored and I honestly wanted to do anything else than watch this train wreck.
The Wheel of Time (2021)
If you are a huge fan of the books. This isn't for you.
If you've never read the books, you'll love it. It's well done as a show goes. It's pretty and scenic.
But. If you read the books, this will bother you to no end. The only things that this follows from the books are really settings and main characters. There's so much that they just decided to ignore in books and do their own thing.
Rand and Egwene? Wtf. Rand's first was someone else and it's important. Perrin? Matt gambling and villagers having coins to gamble? So much diversity in a tiny rural village like two rivers? Those are just off the top of my head. But in the books Jordan goes to great lengths to describe all of this and they all are relevant to story and character development. There's a reason some reactions from main characters to first seeing this or that because Twin Rivers so so out in the woods and away from civilization. Just makes me sad.
I feel like whoever wrote this didn't actually read the books.
The Wheel of Time (2021)
If you are a huge fan of the books. This isn't for you.
If you've never read the books, you'll love it. It's well done as a show goes. It's pretty and scenic.
But. If you read the books, this will bother you to no end. The only things that this follows from the books are really settings and main characters. There's so much that they just decided to ignore in books and do their own thing.
Rand and Egwene? Wtf. Rand's first was someone else and it's important. Perrin? Matt gambling and villagers having coins to gamble? So much diversity in a tiny rural village like two rivers? Those are just off the top of my head. But in the books Jordan goes to great lengths to describe all of this and they all are relevant to story and character development. There's a reason some reactions from main characters to first seeing this or that because Twin Rivers so so out in the woods and away from civilization. Just makes me sad.
I feel like whoever wrote this didn't actually read the books.
Infinite (2021)
You either care about story and plot or you don't.
Or maybe you're somewhere in between. If story and plot are important to you, you will not like this movie as it forgets it's own plot half way through and just runs on steam from tons of fight scenes and fun play. Story is not important. Even the decent cast couldn't save the story for its plot holes.
If you just want to watch an action movie without worrying if plot makes sense, this is not bad at all.
Spoilers may be below. Some idiot on here thought this plot was cohesive. Just goes to speak volumes about people who rate this movie 8 - 10. As I said. Enjoy the movie for action but don't pretend it doesn't have plot holes which are explained in other various reviews on here. Such things as, the previous incarnation died 35 years ago. Mark is 50. How do they all find each other. Why not just shoot himself or anyone who wants to stop reincarnating with the Dethroner. How do they deal with hundreds of years of memories coming back, loved ones, children, death, experiences like that, coming back with memory will screw your psyche pretty badly. Who created all this equipment they have working with the incarnations. How are they suddenly able to just pull someone's consciousness and soul into a chip. There's a ton ton more big questions that movie doesn't even bother to gloss over, let alone answer. The movie started out pretty good touching some of this and building up on it, but then just focuses too much on fighting half way through and that's it. Not a bad flick all things considered. But not a 7-8. 4-5, maybe a 6 if you really want to like it.
48 Christmas Wishes (2017)
Absolutely horrible acting and sets.
I think one of the producers could have done a better job using a handheld camera and his family. The acting was just awful. The sets were the cheapest I've ever seen in a movie. Just awful all together.
But, my 7 year old loved it for some odd reason....