Reviews

Austin did a great job, as did Tom Hanks. It did show the abuse that Colonel Parker dished out.

What we didn't like, was the rap music! They actually had rap music playing around the 45 min mark in the movie. Rap music didn't start until the 70's. If there is annoying rap music in a movie, we skip ahead to where it ends. It seems to be in so many movies but we certainly didn't expect it in a movie about the 50's/60's. A movie loses something when they put inappropriate for the era dialogue or music in it.

Other than that, the acting was good, the music was good and the costumes were awesome.

I appreciate that these producers are trying to make these health shows more interesting and understandable for everyone. So we watched it for 15 mins to give it a chance.

However, from the giggling of the presenters to the constant cartoon displays of what looked like stuffed animals representing gut flora and functions, it just got much too childish. I felt like I was in kindergarten.

Unfortunately this style seems to be a trend today, and I wonder if humanity has dumbed itself down to the point where this is the acceptable norm for most shows, or does it reflect the wants and needs of the newer generations. Not to be a buzzkill, but we can't learn or be entertained by nothing but cartoons and superhero movies.

We watched only 10 mins, in FF, trying to get the main character off the screen, before we realized she was the main character and would be there for most of the movie. She talks relentlessly to the point of being so annoying we couldn't watch any more of what looked like it might be a decent movie.

We've seen lots of movies with characters we "love to hate" or quirky personalities or they are somewhat annoying, but.....it forms a part of the movie. This was just downright totally annoying. The main character goes from scene to scene, nattering and nattering - to the point where you just can't take any more of it.

Many others have written about this in reviews here. The audio mix is awful.

Many shows today STILL (I remember my Dad complaining about this 60 years ago!) have the MUSIC/SOUNDTRACK much too loud in relation to the verbiage.

They've never figured out that we don't want the soundtrack blowing us out of our chairs, while we have to raise the volume so high so that we can hear the speaking.

This show was the worst (for that) ever. The soundtrack is SO LOUD, CONSTANT and PERVASIVE that it not only drowned out a lot of the speaking, it's just plain irritating.

So after 60+ years, and all the tech we have - we've gotten absolutely no better at mixing this stuff.

Another issue is that around E8 Ramsay started calling restaurants and eliminating them over the phone, but there was no explanation as to why. Then I read that the original show was 12 episodes, but they aired only 9 episodes. So perhaps they skipped over the episodes where some of the semi-finalists eliminated. It detracts from the show when out of nowhere, suddenly there are eliminations without the benefit of seeing/hearing/knowing why.

The show itself was pretty good. Too bad they spoiled it with their sound issues and eliminating some episodes.

The soundtrack, like so many movies, is loud music that drowns out the dialogue. Much of the dialogue is very low or almost a whisper, and then with the constant loud sound track on top, makes it impossible to hear some of the dialogue.

Other than that, we didn't mind the movie. As one reviewer said - I've seen worse and I've seen better.

The young girl's acting is great and Johnny Strong is good also. Yes, the terrain with the beautiful trees and streams isn't how I picture Afghanistan. And yes, the final scenes are....entertaining.

However overall, it was worth spending 2 hours watching. We can't say that about half the movies out there.

We watched S1-S18. Unfortunately S19 and on were not offered for Canada on Prime.

We enjoyed the first, maybe 10, seasons. However, just like My Kitchen Rules - the show devolved into how much childish drama they can inject into the show. It became obvious to us that unskilled idiotic mouthy contestants were allowed to stay - simply for the drama, while other, what appeared to be, better cooks/contestants were kicked out. Many other folks have said the same thing online.

I'm sure there's folks out there who love "watching a train wreck" but I just felt like I was wasting my time watching childish outbursts and the contestants thinking they are so much better than they actually are (sounds like next generation issues, doesn't it?) the contestants were almost all in their 20's so......you decide.

We did find S21 & S22 on cable, my hubby is a cook and likes to watch this show. However, honestly now with the dunk tank, chasing pigs around in mud, snakes, the dumping spaghetti sauce on contestants and how the punishments have devolved into slapstick humiliation......it just isn't my thing. I was never a Laurel and Hardy fan, although I appreciate their act fit the era they came up in.

Another reality TV show now caught in the cycle of constantly trying to come up with more sensationalization to hang on to it's reality TV lovin' audience.

We first saw Iliza on Netflix and loved her show. So we watched another, and enjoyed that one too. However, when we stumbled across this one we were excited but lo and behold, it was not like the others.

I agree with other reviewers; the noises and weird voices were funny but were way overdone and went on too long. After a while, we got tired of them. Actually, we found this special a bit "weird" and we eventually abandoned it.

Too bad, we did not enjoy this special anywhere near as much as the first two we watched. Sometimes too much of a good thing is a bad thing and restraint goes a lot further.

We love action films. However, we have started watching European action movies and avoid American made action films. Why? Australian or British or other European movies use realistic looking actors, especially the females - gritty, no makeup, possibly a bit overweight, and completely believable. What do American made movies show us? Beauty queen cops or FBI agents or military personnel with perfect hair, makeup, nails, and figure. Completely unrealistic. Female leads more concerned with ensuring their lipstick is perfect.

This movie is no exception, we could tell within the first 2 minutes of watching it. Poorly acted with lots of young girls with perfect makeup......."saving the world". Sure. Better make sure "badges" are handed out.

The American movie industry seems to have gradually devolved into really shallow fluffy.....dare I say it.....garbage. Perhaps this is next generation stuff, but honestly it's hard to find anything you can get your teeth into; it's all this whimsical shallow fluffy stuff (oh wait, sorry, I said that already).

What a farce not only is this movie, but we feel.......most American movies now. The end of the American movie industry. Thank God for Britbox.

First off, those smashing annoying drums as the background music - how do producers figure you'll enjoy or even listen to that? No, we turn down the volume until it ends, it's SO LOUD - it's really off putting.

Secondly, we enjoyed the show for the first 3 or 4 episodes, we love Travis Fimmel, but the show got really bogged down with small conversations and too much back and forth from the crime to the present. Quite frankly it eventually got boring and exhausting. We fast-forwarded through the final 2 episodes.

And finally, sorry but why do many shows have a final episode now, that shows all the ins and outs of how they filmed it, the director's dialogue on what he was aiming for, how he brought it into the show, etc. Honestly who cares? If it was a many-season show you're very invested in, for example Walking Dead or Yellowstone or Sons of Anarchy - sure, that would perhaps be interesting. But for a 6-episode show.....who cares? Seems like everyone is so self-invested that they have this sense of such importance now, with a need to explain every little detail of what they did and why. We skipped E7.

Productions have really changed these past few years, and we feel not in a good way. Many are not well filmed, not well edited, or they drag out the story far too long into multi-unnecessary episodes.....and this show would fit into the latter. Too bad, we liked the show at first. In the end, it just became annoying.

As others have said, it has a gitchy B-movie feel to it. Too bad - the location is stunning. Bruce and John are definitely far from their best.

What was the absolute worst part for me, though, was the soundtrack. Music and background are SUPER LOUD and the voices much lower. So you're being blown out of your seat one minute, scrambling to find the remote to lower the volume, then madly turning it up the next minute so you can hear the dialogue. Why oh why do they continue to do this in movies? It drives us nuts and makes watching the movie so onerous, up and down with the sound volume.

I actually have a headache as I write this from the sudden loud soundtrack that blows up in your ears. Unfortunately this movie was far from being good enough to overlook that. We abandoned it 20 mins before it ended.

We loved Silent Witness, and are currently on S16. However, Nikki's character is over the top. Emotional outbursts, playing sleuth, or counsellor. Since when did pathologists become CSI investigators? Also going off to other countries, like Afghanistan for one, is quite unbelievable. Who runs their dept while they're gone? And are there no other good pathologists in the country they've flown to? It's become rather bizarre.....we watch an episode late at night before bed when we're tuning out....because it's hard to be engaged with a show that's so daft and over-the-top. The high emotional outbursts of both Nikki and Leo have been too much; neither of them would be acceptable in that job in the real world. It's a bit of a joke now, and we watch it for amusement. Too bad the Brits ruined a really good show. Amanda Burton was the best of it for the first 7 seasons.

Like one of the other reviewers, we were interested at first and it seemed like a regular B movie. Horror movies and B movies can be fun! Unfortunately about an hour into the movie, it devolved into this awful D-level horror movie, with all the standard cliche's and cheap horror movie behaviours.

I actually can't believe there were other people who really liked it. I guess that's the level (or complete lack of) intelligence in the movie-making industry we see now. It's getting harder and harder to find something worth watching. What a waste of time this movie is!

And this is what we're getting now - boat loads of complete crap in the movie industry.

I agree with the others who said this was aimless and went nowhere.

We liked it at first, and so we watched all of S1. Then it got bogged down with so many side conversations - too much - and special effects w/o any explanation. It seemed to meander along pointlessly, far less story and too much side drama that was useless to the story. We got bored, fed up and abandoned the show. So many shows we've seen do this, it's like they're trying to stretch a show into another season rather than wrap it up. In the end it was a waste of time, we just got frustrated with it.

After reading the review of someone who watched all episodes, we are so glad we didn't carry on, as apparently it got no better and ended the same way; without explanation for a lot of it.

We love Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning, so this movie showed lots of promise. However, first the music was SO LOUD and overpowering, I had to sit with the remote in my hand turning the volume constantly up and down as the voices were hard to hear.

Three quarters of the way through it still felt very promising. We kept waiting for the story to take off. Then, turns out the movie went nowhere.

Suddenly it was ending. What a disappointment. It really wasn't worth the effort of watching it and constantly messing with that volume control. The storyline just fell flat at the end. It really was a waste of time unfortunately.