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I can't believe there would be bad reviews. I don't get the hate for a thought-provoking fantastic visual and thematic inspiration in the performance by J. Lo. A film with beautiful, amazing landscapes, an interesting not so complex plot about technology's role in our civilization, top sci-fi CGI and actors putting excellent performances. Sometimes the uneven pacing goes emotional depth, delivering well-executed spectacle and substance. It is a ride inside the ARC (bot), in a way that makes it feel like you're there, and at the same time engages you in what's going on without the claustrophobia of lock-down gaming ambient. The film takes you through a stratospheric reentry crash landing-roll down a cliff-sink into a cave-in-walk through underground cave-find new lifeforms-walk back to the surface adventure. Is there anything else you could ask for in 1h 58 m? Well, I want more, there have to be more! There is enough material for sequels.

As for the fact or fantasy of the matter: people should be educated (to cause to know something) at every event, even when entertaining. But not everything that entertains must be a review of a scientific publication. That's what the classroom is for, where you go to learn, as simple as that. No one goes to the classroom to be entertained. Renegade Nell is as far from reality and historically inaccurate as a History Channel alien. England in 1704, full of inequalities between classes, it's not an entertainer. However, Renegade Nell is almost science fiction and should be seen as such. Frank Dillane alone could have taken Fear the Walking far, but there was no vision, and he was taken out, what a mistake. A proper Nelly Jackson will die at the end, like every other strong, mouthy, brass super freak have lately. However, this magnificent job of portraying playful and fun Nell deserves to have a successful conclusion. Thanks to the writers for that, I was absolutely hooked by the engaging storyline and character. The language was unintelligible, I had to put on subtitles. Normally I prefer to get a book if am up for hours of reading. However, for such eight wonderful episodes I will do it again.

Not a Fallout player, I don't care for the game. This is a TV series ruined by the soundtrack. This series isn't a disaster, don't get me wrong, I recognize the value and greatness of oldies music, but people who like this kind of music don't share a taste for splatter gore. There are things that just don't add up and this is one of them. The show is aimed at the present generation, who as much as they appreciate the oldies, they have their different tastes above them. At least I find the music to be boring, strident, and out of place. Apart from having to lower the volume every time the music is presented, resulting in noise, something that is not fair. It's a misuse of something as valuable as the music of bygone good all times.

I like the Western-style narrative, the story is fine, and many elements of dark humor and horrific scenes. Some episodes that lack substance can be annoying at times, and there comes the happy everything is gone be all right music again, and again, and again. I have been following Jonathan Nolan since his brother Sir Christopher Nolan adapted Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori" into the film Memento (2000). Also favorites like Person of Interest, The Dark Knight, Interstellar and Westworld. From the latter seems to come the character of Walton Goggins as The Ghoul. If it hadn't been for the inconvenience of the soundtrack, I would have given it a 10 for the excellent cinematography, but there is an 9 for every time I have to mute it in each episode.

I've been noticing it for a while until I finally decided to write a comment. It is either the makeup or the lighting, but something is wrong. Sometimes the actors look like clowns, especially Erin to whom you can see the reddish of the cheeks too high. My favorite TV program must be good, for me to be able to put up with the pedantic Danny, tiresome Jamie wasted of time and money at Harvard Law to be NY's most over-qualified walking the beat cop, the meddler Eddie Janko tantrums, and Erin and Anthony, Erin and Danny, Erin and Eddie or Erin and her dad fighting. Don't get me wrong, they're all brilliant actors, it's the display of erudition of the characters which is sometimes shocking. So incredibly nice to see a family that all love and respect each other. It's a shame that in 14 years the producers didn't open a space to develop the career of Sami Gayle in her primes, one of the most beautiful women in the show-business nowadays. I've always been a Tom Selleck fan. The Commissioner has a keen sense of faith and goodness, blessing before meals, one of the best family dramas on television today, every episode different from the last, effective at entertaining and challenging. Some reviews call for detectives in NYC to be offended at how they portray police officers. That's like Star Wars be an offense to alien lifeforms. This is show-business if you don't like it, change the channel, and stop hurting yourself!

From Band of Brothers (9.4) to The Pacific (8.3) the companion series lost 1.1 rating points. BoB built up characters within minutes, Winters and Nixon were people in charge, how they relate to one another and the logistics they manage. Accuracy was on its side, based on real stories research, setting the standards for historical WWII drama. For me, The Pacific had way too many highly unlikable characters to attempt to, too much drama out of the field of action. That back and forth is distracting, it steals attention from the main objective. It's like going to the beach, stopping in the desert, going back to the beach to go back to the desert again, back and forth for 8 hours and 50 minutes.

In this new companion series Masters of the Air (7.9), the movie industry favor drama and spectacular visuals over realism. A solid masterpiece that errs on that same point, so it's not surprising that it also lost 0.4 rating. But, although it has many I-don't-know-who-are-you characters, obvious in a theater of war, it holds up by having main characters Buck and Buckie capable of capturing attention. Something that The Pacific, even with all its multiple side stories, didn't have. Not all characters in The Pacific belonged to the theater of war because they were not on the battlefield like in Band of Brothers, they were at home.

I didn't like the portrayal of British soldiers as jerks. I've been in the military service and although it's true that we have a lot of fun, we don't behave disrespectfully even among ourselves, because there is an order based on due respect for everyone's dignity. It is true that, as in any good human family, there are those who get drunk and get troublesome. But nobody was looking for trouble because they were of another nationality or for fun, that's not true and I don't think it was.

Playing a romantic moment in the middle of a war, the embarrassing themes undermine the credibility of the drama. The dialogue feels uninspired, lacking emotional depth as it goes from chapter to chapter. Sometimes it doesn't matter that a war movie has as long as they nail things on point. So be prepared to jump from the gripping point to the uninteresting one, just don't go into it having grand expectations.

The hard work, tenacity, and historical contribution of the work done by the Oak Island Fellowship is something I acknowledge and take pride in. I've been there, in front of the TV, for every rotten wood or moldy iron they've found, hundreds and hundreds of years of visitors leaving their own waste behind. I hope to continue watching as long as it lasts because I like the logistical dynamics of the matter. Other than the unbearable-broken-record narrator, I like all the characters, and the show is amusing fun. But never have so many done so little with so much time. From little to no probability I give to the idea that by the 1200s, sailing from Europe the Knights Templar brought treasure (The Arc of the Covenant?) from Jerusalem, dig a tunnel more than 100 feet deep, hide it protected with a multiple flood traps underwater tunnels system from the shore, just to turn their backs and never ever return. Leaving behind extremely exciting astronomically aligned boulders and stone roads, proof of their knowledge and skills. What would happen to these chivalrous bestowed navigators? Well, they most likely died of cancer from lead exposure. And if it happened, if it happened, just like the tombs looted in Egypt, one who participated or knew, came back and took it all away many many moons ago. I'm hopeful that, maybe-perhaps-possibly with absolute uncertainty, it may most certainly be likely that at any moment, among the mud and the slime they will at least find an alien life form with less speculation and more substance. I'm 100% sure they won't.

Besides being an excellent inspiration for a fiction guided tour, part of a highly informative fantasy film, there is nothing but speculative conjecture about Atlantis' location. I recognize that the coordination of the route must have been colossal, the same I fully acknowledge and respect the effort and importance of the work of archaeologists. But the way is presented here, everything looks like Atlantean architecture whatever that is, and without a final location is extremely accommodative. There are those who think that Atlantis sunk because of its decadent society. From Plato's Critias, the island was rich in resources, glowing red metal more precious than gold, the ground providing many plants and animals, including elephants. Research identifies the footprints of the megafauna of the south of the Iberian Peninsula 125,000 years ago, with four-meter-high pachyderms and wild boars weighing more than three hundred kilos. I do not recall them mentioning related findings. On a par with the vast majority of documentaries presented lately with an impressive title, multiple findings boxed in the purpose, hundreds of speculations, and no results that advance the reason for the title. At the video teleconferences they are mostly wearing the same clothes, so next time at least make the docuseries seem real.

Here for the entertainment, not the criticism. In fact, I don't know if the bad reviews are right or not and it doesn't matter, I'm here for the entertainment and that's what I had, entertainment. Interesting from start to finish, no time wasted on whining or love affairs but straight-forward spy-action-adventure, as expect from an action movie. Hartnett, Malone, Elwes, Hugh Grant and Statham were all solid performances. One more opportunity to observe the talent and radiant beauty of Audrey Plaza and her simplicity. It is proven once again that it is not the script, nor the director nor the rest of the cast, but Audrey's control of the scene, versatility and charisma that makes her unique.

From the first movie to the second it changed to a less of quality. I never would've imagined the TV series would be worse. Watching The Croods was the most rewarding experience in decades, it was like going back to the Flintstones, going on adventures with them against the environment was fascinating. Until someone came up with the idea of bringing in a modern family and starting a dispute. At that moment all the innovative brilliance derailed, lowering the quality of the writing to nowadays constant not funny unpleasant gossip. What a waste, a demonstration of how to sabotage a stunning animation concept. The theme is good, the characters are likable, but they should continue to explore the environment rather than focusing on the neighbor's affairs.

The psycho in underpants one or two times, that happen, anything over that was tasteless. I have read several complaints targeting the daughter like if she was a main character, ignoring that is not only her, its most young people in Hollywood nowadays that have been stereotyped as pedantic, reckless, anarchist, selfish, ignorant, troublemaker use to complicate the story. We got them in GOT, in Fear TWD they abandoned their parents in the middle of an apocalypse. Luckily, real young people are not like that, and what better example than the brilliant performance of Vivian Olyphant. She works under the instructions of a director responsible for guiding the actors to materialize the story. This is extremely delicate because many of these good young actors see their careers harmed by the shadow of a character. And we, the viewers, are supposed to call it for what it is instead of annihilating the actor. Her part was poorly written, because it makes no sense at all that the marshal's daughter will walk the dark streets alone and meet a total stranger because he said he knows his dad. The villain is so over-the-top evil it is a cartoonish joke out of a superhero movie. The plot needs more than one Holbrook charismatic villain; this show always relied on the deeds of a supporting captivating cast on its own. The version so far has little to do with that.

Even knowing that "Disney Star Wars" took the brand and ruined it far far away from its former glory, this one feels like Star Wars! However, Sabine attitude is out of place, so yes, it is Disney. It reminds me of the phenomenon of that simple unbearable character who ruins all the show, something like a kind of Joffrey Baratheon flashback. With all due respect for Jack Gleeson phenomenal performance, but so great as real that it raises bad mojo. So, this is the Ashoka or Sabina series? Not a particularly good start can even put the future of the series in bad shape. The Padawan has always been stubborn, but from there to a Master Jedi having no control over is a great down leap for Jedi kind. Like last year's Obi-Wan Kenobi babysitting drama queen whining, moaning, and complaining. Fight choreography and cuts need improvement. Legionary centurion Ray Stevenson will live forever in our hearts.

That is the way you do it! Do not pay attention to rates less than 8, they only respond to a harm doing agenda. Especially the ones masquerading the attention towards the stream service doings. Picking on so many details, this movie lacks this, this movie lacks that, like there is a perfect movie. Other complain about bad acting like if they know about casting a theatrical event. Remember that the actor is not alone, it is the creativity of the director that must create a good scene. The director is also responsible for ensuring that the quality of execution fits the scene at an appropriate level. This movie has what it takes to entertain, fast pace, coordination, purpose, and violence. Decent cast and superb action sequences, straight to the point, zero wasted time to fill with whining, moaning, and complaining emotional stupidity drama. That's for the Oscars, and few action films make it there. This is one of the best action movies I have seen in years.

The franchise has been to my liking and sponsorship from the beginning. But my advice is to spun fine (split hairs) or stay away from torturing and mutilating caged animals. Yelling and foul language in front of children is not entertaining and is sore to the heart. That we know that these things happen is not directly proportional to wanting to see them materialize. This is not a family movie; it is for people who think animal cruelty and caged children can be entertaining. Likewise, "There is no God, that's why I stepped in" whether a believer or not, intense nihilistic self-loathing and hatred seems out of place. I do not see this one on the same level as the previous two. Guardians are for clever humor, amazing characters, good plot, and a loser's insufferable noisy soundtrack. The same cast acting was amateur, everyone yelling nonsensical lines which are supposed to be funny.

Same old, same old .... Over the years all Star Treks adaptations have been bland-silly-boring-dull-dud stuff. But they comply with providing a time of entertainment, possibly even relaxed. I've seen them all, so I expect this to be like the original series or the next generation, with lacks impact and power. This soap lacks new civilizations contacts, with old cliches and cheesy lines and immature characters. The lousy casting doesn't work well, unrealistic (even for sci-fi) bad scripting and poor actors look like they just woke up, annoying in every long-lasting drama scene. The technobabble has improved, probably the best Star Trek set, too flashy as if its purpose is to distract you from the poor writing. They must innovate the adventure into the unknown, moving away from personal drama or popular opinions (woke, gender), the media is already in charge of controlling the way we think.

I was drawn in this interesting confusing messy-fanatical-climate-alarmist-dragging action melodrama story, neither clever nor original. For the most part, the miniseries has good visuals, some scenes bring a big source of special power that secretly wields tension over, and we do not even notice tension built up. The pro-environmental message preached the light of truth, which is good. Trained police missing single on sight shots losing the target reminds me that this is fiction. Agents looked raggedy and disheveled. Finally, an ending where the main characters survive. It lack repercussions for those who in search of the truth ruined innocent lives.

I wasted a decade of my life for a lame ending. How much worse could it be, not everybody is in the move of watching favorites characters died after a decade. Terrible ending, I cannot believe how awful it was, what a shame. James Spader has created one of the most intriguing and followed characters on television, and they did him so dirty. A flagrant disappointment as absurd as it would be to have brutally killed Tony Soprano. After 10 years following the story, the Task Force was disbanded without closure of member's eventual future, despicable. This is the worst finale I have seen recently, worse than GOT. Another one falls into the I-don't-want-to-see-it-again list.

I do care about entertainment without meticulous standards details. But a suicide loose inside a weapons ready submarine, really? That is definitely out of the park. The sub plots and back story acting is first rate, some points exciting, others not believable. Like, the Navy have naval police to deal with incidents regardless of who's waters they are in, people sex lives have no relevance to the crisis on a sub big and spacious as a warehouse, and British navy are trained professionals as incompetent and volatile. When these stories are written, they must be finely spun to deliver a balanced work. That way you can give honor to those who honor, and respect deserves. In other words, if they are characterizing real-life not everything can be fantasy, that's why consultants exist.

When famous actors/actress sappy unrealistic character in the lead turned left at the end of the corridor on the second floor, and went up to the right of the third, I got lost. Never stood a chance of scoring on this violent soaking in gore claustrophobic labyrinthine, with passageways and doors all over the place at one-location. If you like your action, Jason Clarke, a murderous detainee, faces off and delivers. The rest, they tried hard. It should suffice for an average good and entertaining slasher movie. The movie is not terribly bad, it lacks originality, and needs better projection on a wide range of locations. They already have the plot, add some more heavy characters and a second part with a bigger production would score high.

Oh dear, it seems faked. I said this was not for me on the very first episode, when they found clean shinny tools inside an abandoned bunker, right before a fake scream. Oh, yea baby there we go again! Another poorly edited made believe diluted ridiculous program that does not merit having any audience at all, this show is not worth watching. Professionals paid to hear and see everything that is not there, spend next to no time investigating in the so-called places of interest, just as if they were actually making progress without an effort to get an actual answer. Jessica overacting is irritant, like a children's show where expressions need to signify interest, running around and fake screaming every time the wind blows. The Wiki page "Expedition X" does not exist, nobody cares about it.

Unbelievable disturbing show, unrealistic medical situations, plots, and characters. Terribly phony depiction of an emergency department and hospital. Will Halstead unlikable character, with his sullen-sulky-mumpish face and mouth half open, is an utterly outrageous disgrace for the medical profession. Herein portrayed as a collection of emotionally unstable, narcissistic, ridiculous, awful, repulsive, and unprofessional characters. Breaking the law, HIPAA, assisting suicide, altering labs. Patient comes in and refuses treatment and wants to die, why did he go to the hospital in the first place? Who cares about the patients' will, we do what we want without even worrying about the consequences. Meanwhile, the gargoyle-harpy nurses are drama queens, scolding doctors, questioning authority, spending far too much time in personal affairs. Sex in the workplace, really??? However, New Amsterdam was cancelled even with a rating of 8.0 for losing viewers. I cannot believe that if the public did not see New Am, they would see Chi Med.

I really liked this show, it has everything that a good cop show needs. Although, the music (noise) was a real loser. Extremely loud, the worst musicalization in the history of TV. Through the whole show you must be constantly lowering the audio to prevent the horrendous drum roll noise from being heard two houses down the road, and then rise it again to be able to listen to the dialogue. The noise is definitely the reason why in 2023 I'm still going for season 6 because I can't stand more than an hour of noise at a time. Melina Kanakared's character didn't have Gary Sinise's chemistry. Possibly a salary adjustment for years of service would be fair, but par with Sinise it was not. They moved away from Las Vegas because of the technological fiction that only takes away credibility from the matter, too fantastic.