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6/10
Interesting watch
27 March 2022
Some excellent Shark footage but does pad itself out with reusing the same shots over and over.

We see this frequently, there is probably 15 minutes of padding.
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6/10
Very Disappointing
2 January 2022
Sadly a very disappointing end to Craig's run. Weak villain, full of inconsistencies, minimum great action, too many shoe horned in characters, and an utterly weak ending.

Casino Royale and Skyfall are the best.

Then Quantum, then this then the dire Spectre.

6/10. A curiosity to watch but you'll not return to it.
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5/10
A filler movie
18 October 2021
We wanted The Empire Strikes Back, but we got The Last Jedi.

Largely filler until Halloween Ends. Most of what happens is completely irrelevant to the overall story and easily could have been wrapped up in about fifteen minutes.
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Line of Duty (2012–2021)
5/10
Seasons 1-4 Good, 5 so so, 6 very weak
2 May 2021
Great up to Season 4, Season 5 is so so but Season 6 is dull. Terrible characters, next to no drama or twists, utterly turgid writing and a very dull end. Barely saved by "Mate" and "the Wee Donkey".

Unforgotten is 20x better.
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4/10
Just awful
8 April 2021
Dull action, awful 2D characters, no chemistry, massive plot holes, poor cgi, and Andy Serkis playing a mad man.... the list goes on.

Please get Ruby Rose acting lessons.
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5/10
Bruce Lee with guest star Batman
5 February 2021
5/10 Bruce Lee: Soul of the Dragon McGuffin with special guest star Batman.
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4/10
Season 1 dull
24 January 2021
Far from Amazing. 3 episodes are dull as dishwater and 2 are plain average. Watch The Twilight Zone reboot instead or Black Mirror.
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Burnt (I) (2015)
5/10
Weak see "Chef" instead
4 October 2020
5/10. Before you watch "Burnt" ask yourself have I seen "Chef" by John Favreau at least 10 times? If you have then ask yourself have I seen Julia & Julia at least twice? If you can say yes then you can watch this flat, what were the cast thinking, weak script, non-event of a movie where even the food isn't enticing. Oh and the tag line "Never underestimate a man with everything to lose"? The cockwomble lost everything already because he was a cockwomble. #notaspoiler

Did I mention "Chef"?
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I Hate Suzie (2020– )
6/10
Piper is superb
4 September 2020
Extremely well acted, watch once drama. Some are calling it comedy but there's next to no humour in this disintegration of life. You'll probably end up hating most of the main characters not just Suzie. 6/10 because it's good but not great, it's not Piper's Fleabag, and you probably won't rewatch it or remember it in 6 months.
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Killing Eve (2018– )
5/10
Dreadful Season 3
1 June 2020
5/10 After a Brilliant season 1, and good season 2, Killing Eve comes crashing down with a dull, slow season 3.

Characters serve no purpose other than to be a distraction, story arcs go nowhere, and Eve and Villanelle spend most of the 8 episodes apart.... when the only strength of the show is when they are together.

In the finale Eve at one point says "What's happened to us?" - most of the audience is thinking the same 😫
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Capone (2020)
3/10
Just utter utter garbage
31 May 2020
Someone somewhere probably thought it was a good idea.

It wasn't. Just dreadful. 1 Mark for the prosthetics team, 1 Mark for the ever dependable Matt Dillon and 1 point for Tom Hardy putting up with the indignity of it all.

Avoid and please don't allow Josh Trank to write or direct anything else.
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Homeland (2011–2020)
7/10
Just watch season 1 and 2
27 April 2020
As the rest is all over the place and ends with a Game Of Thrones ending level of betrayal of the characters.
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Manhunt (2017)
5/10
Not a return to Woo's glory days
2 April 2020
5/10 You probably know Director John Woo from the Cage/Travolta crazy classic Face/Off.

But I know him from his trilogy of awesome Hong Kong movies The Killer, Hardboiled and Bullet To The Head.

I was hoping that this was a return to form. Sadly it's not. Weak action, bizarre story all over the place and dreadful editing.
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The Mandalorian (2019– )
9/10
Great but not a 9 or 10
28 December 2019
8/10 for Season 1. An excellent but sometimes strange show. Part western, part sci-fi, sometimes slow burn, with some characters who steal the show entirely this is better than any of the last three films.... Solo, Last 💩 Jedi and RotS.

It feels like classic Star Wars and that's its biggest recommendation.

Oh and you know who is in it
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7/10
Entertaining but not great
20 December 2019
7/10 an entertaining, far superior to the travesty that is Last Jedi, visually gorgeous movie. Nowhere near as bad as some of the reviews are saying but nowhere near as good as 4,5,6, Rogue One and Revenge of The Sith. On a par with The Mandalorian but no Baby Yoda. It will at times really excite you but it's also full of terrible dialogue, blatant fan service, and merchandise opportunities.

We didn't get a trilogy that we should have had with old Luke, Leia and Han, that's the biggest disappointment I believe.
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Paradox (2017)
5/10
Not very good
19 November 2019
Sadly not a patch on Spl 1 or 2. They usually great cast are not given much character development or emotion in this weak bleak "Taken" remake.

Do you hope that the action might make up for it. Unfortunately this isn't the case as the action is so badly edited with fast cuts, moves that don't flow from one to the next and some clear wire work that jars.

Tony Jaa is utterly wasted and only the end fight scene has any real feel to it again poor in comparison to other movies.
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The Deuce (2017–2019)
9/10
Superb but very adult
2 November 2019
Gripping, first class acting, great characters and a brutal look at New York in the 70's. Extremely well done.
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Saving Jaws (2019)
8/10
A Decent Documentary
12 October 2019
... with some great footage and a strong anti-shark finning message.

Anything that's helps try and change public perception on sharks or to stop shark fin soup is a worthwhile venture.
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6/10
Stallone's "Taken"
20 September 2019
Obvious similarity to Neeson's Taken. This is ok but is quite weak compared to the other Rambo's. The action is pretty slim until the climax and that in itself isn't tense, just Rambo under little to no threat carving his way through nameless characterless villains.
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Crawl (I) (2019)
8/10
Unabashed fun
26 August 2019
Good fun, very silly but that's what these movies are about. Good effects, great audio, stats fast and doesn't relent.
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Re:Born (2016)
5/10
Not The Raid or John Wick.
17 August 2019
Don't be fooled by the high rated reviews. This is a mediocre action movie that's part John Wick, part Taken and part Metal Gear Solid.

The "hero" is a cardboard cutout with the ability to dodge bullets and put a knife in a neck from nowhere and the villains are comical in the extreme.... one tries to hypnotise the hero to death.

Poor fight scenes where no one seems to see the hero despite him wearing a hoodie that stands out a mile and creaks everytime he moves, and most of it filmed in the woods or in a disused factory, this is a firm pass.
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6/10
A setup for others not a complete film
26 November 2018
Lovely to look at but a film that plays like the first third of other films. Hardly anything concludes and it's just a big setup for the future films.

Doomed to be hardly watched again.
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8/10
Great Freediving Footage
22 August 2018
Whilst short and limited in content about these amazing creatures the free diving footage is absolutely spectacular.
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6/10
Not a patch in the first.
6 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Reasonably ok, but therefore not a patch on the superb first one.

Densely acts as part Rambo, part John Wick, and part Mr Miyagi.

The ending is a blurry mess that he's barely in and the whole film is by the numbers predictable.

For most of the final fight it is clearly not Denzel.
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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018 Video)
3/10
Utterly Terrible
16 July 2018
A direct remake rather than a sequel. Utterly terrible in every aspect. Poor writing, dreadful acting, weak sets, lousy cgi sharks.... the list just goes on and on.

Rewatch the original, The Shallows, or even give Jaws 2 some love not this.
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