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Shetland: Episode #8.3 (2023)
Load of old Tosh, I'm afraid.
The opening episodes weren't too bad, hit men following drug money thief up to Shetland. But in this episode it all goes by the numbers, with the exception of the entirely plausible (not) theft of a body from the morgue by a mad man. The two leads are cardboard characters with nothing like the depth that Perez brought to the stories. Tosh simply can't carry it without Perez. This could have been set anywhere, the Shetland identity brought to life so vividly in the first and second series is gone. Stopped watching after this episode, maybe it gets better, but I'm not interested any more. I have decided to watch from series one again and remind myself why I liked the program so much in the first place.
Porridge (1979)
No Bad
Starts off as good as a TV episode, but the laughs fade towards the end, the escape is all a bit silly and too contrived. As usual, some great one-liners from Barker and 'Grouty' remains one of the most threatening characters you'll ever meet in a comedy!
Judy (2019)
Great Biopic
Renee Zellweger's performance is one of the best I've ever seen, the movie is worth watching just for this. Biopics are usual quite slow and dull and this one is mainly no exception. There are two real highlights, dinner with the gay couple and the last ten minutes where Judy breaks down while singing 'Over the Rainbow' on stage followed by the audience pick up the song.
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
War film the Carry-on team could have made better
Telling the story from the German point of view makes this preposterous film mildly interesting. But the story is too silly, the acting too unconvincing. War films where the soldiers just stand there waving a machine gun about with no concern about being hit are too unrealistic for me. Donald Sutherland spends the entire film walking around with a silly smug grim on his face, like he knows the film should be played for laughs. The token love interest is ridiculous and what happened to that 'e-boat', the captain was too stupid to see the tide going out?
Killing Eve: Sorry Baby (2018)
Sorry baby. I wrote a dumb episode!!
It was a promising series up to this point, then it all went pear shaped with this completely stupid episode. Three assassins turn up in a sleepy little village waving guns around, very silly, nobody will be looking out of their window!. Why does it take three? The supposed MI5 target has all the backbone of a jellyfish, is this the calibre of operative we have in our secret services? Three assassins fire at the back of a car and manage to hit the side doors! A highly paid MI5 operative drives around in a twenty year old car, (BBC wanted something cheap to trash). Three supposedly professional assassins use an ancient unreliable people carrier as their getaway vehicle! Stopped watching the series at this point....