Reviews

Twenty minutes was enough for me, I couldn't take anymore. I don't care where it goes or how it ends.

Yet another movie with JG employing the practice of 'method' acting, you almost feel like he's saying to himself: 'move here, say this, smirk, move head weirdly, repeat'.

See Prisoners and you'll understand that this performance (like many others) is just an extension of an instantly dis-likable character being performed by an 'actor' hitting his marks.

In any entertainment feature, there has to be some redeeming aspect of a character that draws you in. When you can empathise, connect with the situation and those within it; then your happier to move forward with them and their story. Not here, this was dire.

No doubt some will applaud the eccentricities and mannerism's of this character and the films premise of viewer/participant/instigator. But JG's acting just got on my nerves and I couldn't get past the fact that this was performance by numbers.

I really was looking forward to seeing this movie, what a disappointment.

My vote is based on the twenty minutes I watched, it probably would be lower if I'd watched it all.

Those of you of a certain vintage may well remember the A-Team, a bunch of vigilantes bent on justice for all. Sound familiar?

Their leader 'Hannibal' Smith - Harold Finch, Harold is way cooler though. Their idiot 'Howling Mad' Murdock - Root, not as amusing or entertaining. Their bad-Ass B.A Baracus - Ms Shaw, less annoying and more willing to kill. Their pretty boy 'Faceman' Peck - John Reese, recently neutered for some reason.

Unfortunately recent episodes have become idiotic, with several 'gangs' vying for dominance. If only they could stick to the original premise of the show and that is 'Big Brother' is watching and we're here to control it.

The idea that a 'super-super-computer' is spying on everyone is a very compelling concept and one to be of recent relevance. So to take a show that was a clear ratings winner and dumb it down to a point where it becomes interesting only to nine year old's is beyond me.

I urge you to watch S4E09, this episode was exceptional in the fact that more weaponry and the consumption of munitions, could not have been matched even by the A-Team. However, they are similar one regard - none of the protagonists it seems, can hit a barn door at thirty paces.

I'm losing patient with this show, once it was different, challenging, posing big questions about privacy, morality and with great power comes great responsibility cliché. This show seems to have forgotten its primary motive for being.

To be honest, if this show doesn't improve I will stop watching it. Perhaps killing Root in the very(very) near future may keep me around. But it has to be a very painful ending (for her), nothing else will do.

Once I would have given this show a rating of 10, but since Carter got killed and HR is no more and we're stuck in dumb-down land, I'm struggling to keep my interest.......

Can't say I've ever been a fan of the series and this total nonsense isn't going to change that fact.

Pros: Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox are not in it. Stanley Tucci saves this from being a complete disaster. Nicola Peltz eye-candy for the father dragged along by his kids.

Cons: Too long, too many visual fx, not enough story. Confusing to the point of distraction. Editing all over the place. Bizarre music and sound choices.

I watched this because I had nothing better to do, (should've stuck with sorting the lint in my pockets) anyways: When your watching a movie and all you're thinking is 'who is that?, which side is he on?, what the hell is going on?' then it doesn't bode well.

There is so much going on in this movie it actually starts to get on your nerves, I love sci-fi but not to the extent where almost everything on screen is being blown up, shredded or mangled. But some how our intrepid humans continue to survive some insanely stupid crashes and explosions.

Most of the characters in this movie are non-entities, neither like or dislike any of them except Stanley Tucci, billionaire robotics genius starts out has a megalomaniac - but by the end a lovable rogue. Brilliant.

Most if not all of the 'Bots' voices are almost indecipherable, I really struggled to understand half of their dialogue. But it's not really germane to the outcome, you know whose gonna win.

Don't waste your time, go and paint your house with a toothbrush it will be infinitely more rewarding.

Gave a 5 for Mr. Tucci

Firstly, I am neither a teenager nor a girl; so I don't fit the target demographic. Never-the-less, I was hoping to be entertained.

Sequels tend be by nature an extension of the original and many fail to live up to expectations, and this film fails 'Big-Time'. If you've seen the trailer then you've seen everything except the boring bits.

Sequels also tend to be a money-grabbing enterprise to repay those who took a chance on the first outing.

Sadly this woeful, boring and extremely slow disaster will make money purely because it's the next instalment of what could be a great franchise.

Unfortunately there is far too much crying, hugging and the amount of times the name 'Peter' is mentioned in almost every scene becomes excruciatingly annoying.

As for the 'games' these last for all of 15 minutes of a 2hr movie, and is so undeniably dull. I started to hope they would all die, just so there wouldn't be the inevitable third part.

As for the 'plot' it's the same as the original only shorter and less interesting.

The only saving grace is Donald Sutherland who is deliciously 'evil' and steals every scene. This would be a complete train wreck without him, this is the only reason I have given a 2 star rating.

btw

That noise you can hear whilst you're in the cinema, is the world going by while you're wasting your time on this drivel.

You have been warned....

Prime Time Saturday night viewing, should be better than this.

Atlantis has been dumbed down to an idiots guide to nothing of any consequence.

Hercules has been downgraded to an imbecilic blow-hard, which was funny for all of 5 minutes.

Pythagoras as been upgraded to a genius alchemist, who has a solution for every eventuality.

Perhaps worst of all is Jason, a uninteresting semi-illiterate; that seems to have forgotten he's just arrived from the 21st century.

Every episode follows our dim-witted trio in an unlikely event stretched to fill an hour of sloppy dialogue, cardboard cut-out scenery with the inevitable shambolic ending.

Is this the best the BBC can do on a Saturday evening?, I hope not.

Update 6/12/14

Season 2 has been running a few weeks now and I'm liking it far better. More action, better plot lines and scripts.

But there is one massive plot-hole, in the very first episode Jason returned to Atlantis from our time. The 21st Century.

He knew who Hercules and Pythagoras where, but he doesn't know who his mother is....He would know the entire history of Atlantis, having lived in our time.

It's getting better, but needs to remember it origins.

When movies get billed as the comedy of the year, the blockbuster everybody is talking about. Well, I tend to walk to the other way and I wish had sticked to that plan before deciding to watch this complete crap.

So here's the setup, Husband to be, two buddies and the brides brother get together for an overnight in Vegas.

Friend One - School teacher and low-life, rips is class off to pay for Vegas trip. Not a good start.

Friend Two - Hen-pecked Doctor (Dentist) lives in permanent denial of his girlfriends infidelity and unhappy relationship.

Brides Brother - Dysfunctional family idiot, quite plausible.

Groom - A Mother-in-laws wet dream, yawn..........

So here we are four different but evidently three close friends and the idiot set off to Vegas in father-in-law to be prized Mercedes-Benz.

What happens over the ensuing 24 hours is quite honestly woeful, predictable and not funny - at all.

The problem I think is that the three characters that are supposed to carry the film just don't work. There not interesting or funny in any situation they find themselves in, not once - ever.

At one point the idiot turns into 'rain-man' and wins big - oh no didn't see that coming....yawn again.

Very formulaic, unfunny crap - and Hollywood thinks we need more of this. Be warned, stay away and spend your money more wisely.