Reviews

Just came home from a Cineworld showing of Hamlet and even though I knew it was a retelling from modern times, I have seen some of the directors previous work an I expected something decent. The only positive was the wardrobe even though that wasn't consistent for Sir Ian and he had what looked like Adidas sportswear at one point. Colour codes for royals with the green teal was nice.

Now the bads. Sir Ian McKellen acts with his eyes. He's a man of few words but he knows how to make a poignant speech. So, when faced with a deluge of a monologue in Ye Old English, he starts of strong and towards the end he mumbles. He speaks into his chin, he doesn't enunciate! That actor from his play had better delivery while yelling of poison and gesturing with his hands.

I wanted subtitles.

I wanted more effort with the location choice - not just a theatre and the dingy staircases.

Ophelia's singing was cringe. I saw some old people near me look doubtfully at each other and shake their heads. I get that they're trying to get the youngsters into the cinema but today, me, in my 40s, was the youngest one in the room.

It won't fly.

Also major dissonance with setting and Thy and Thou. If you're speaking Shakespeare's tongue at least have some period costumes or a castle.

Didn't like it, don't recommend it and hope they don't make anymore.

Animation is gorgeous! Loved the cat like behaviour that the massive kitty displayed and the gorgeous gorgeous food shots There's really nothing like anime bento and rhe fry ups.

The only gripes I have with the show are the odd 'filming' angkes that got me a bit dizy at times and the less than innocent vibe of a male cat with a gruff voice showering and undressing its master.

Otherwise fun! Can't wait to see what comes next and I'll come and change my stars if it gets better. :)

Ps. Made me want to start cooking a lot more and also get a cat!

A big black cat. That can cook!! And make nice good food!

Even the battle of winterfell had better lighting than this show. And when it's not shot indoors in near total blackness, it's outside with that yellow 'Mexico' filter we've seen in Breaking Bad and Narcos.

I couldn't even go past the first episode as I was struggling to see what the hell was happening.

It feels like a low budget action flick that had great hopes and yet it was disappointing.

If you're planning on watching this, don't do it over daytime.

PS. Like some other user mentioned - the face masks are filer masks not oxygen masks so they don't work unless you suspend your disbelief.

Only on episode 1 and they're showing all these angles and they're all marked as 45 degrees when they're obvious 120, 40 and 90... And they've removed all walls from the drawing including structural support walls. The couple cries happily cause they can see a nice house and I'm laughing as I imagine how the top floor is slowly going to cave in on the bottom one.

Also all those angles are horrible and I mean horrible for lying floors and finding suitable furniture.

Wtf. They are scamming people.

Considering how much they broke the property I bet it cost them more than 50k, money they will never see back when selling the house. Unless they advertise it was on a TV show.

This was a pain to look at and I skipped through most of the episodes. Never heard of her before and I don't think I will either. There's no substance to what she's talking about or what she's doing.

Even Paris Hilton nailed it better.

I loved season 1. Season 2 was like meh. 3 picked up but a lot of side plots that dragged on. I hate hate hate season 4.

It seems that every episode is filmed in low light, lamp light, night time.

Seriously?

This was worse than the poorly lit Battle of Winterfell.

I treated season 4 as an audiobook and barely looked at the screen to watch acting in the dark.

So, didn't care too much about the other plot lines but whenever Matthew Mcconaughey came on screen, his acting stole the spotlight. His delivery, the pauses, the pregnant pauses where things are said without a sound being uttered, the body language - perfection.

I'm only on season 1 but I sure hope he'll continue the same till the next seasons.

Man, I li e breathtaking Keanu and Winona as much as the next person but the acting was so wooden and the dialogue so cringe worthy.

There was one scene that made me laugh is where she asks to be carried up a hill.

The sex scene was so bad! Who talks about stds, their mother and pregnancies while having sex and screaming Oh Boy!

No chemistry between actors.

I wasted 2h of my life to watch this drivel and it made me think of Big Bang Theory - take the backing music and the noise and you have two very bitter people talking for and hour.

If this was at the cinema and not on Netflix, I would have walked out

I've seen the other attempt at a makeover show where they took the quirky and the fun and they changed into boring norm and that bored the hell out of me.

This show though is pretty fun - even with the dumb comments "Are you Albanian?" which made me crack and the P-Jazzles

There are loads of people with body -positivity issues coming through that revolving door and there's definitely some sexual innuendos going on, but nothing too harsh. Good way to spend an hour or so

I can't begin to describe this utter piece of crap (can I say crap in a review?). Yep it's Alice in Wonderland with drugs and pimps and ugly broads. Put in a few hard-core street accents and you have this train wreck.

It was moronic at best, unwatchable at the worst.

... a waste of time. I had to walk out mid way through as I couldn't handle it anymore.

I was really surprised by how well made this movie was. It had action, drama, some pretty intense petting with no actual sex on screen and it spans over a period of 19 years, starting with the famous escape of Pilsudski from an insane asylum, all the way to the rise to power after the Great War.

We see Pilsudski's family life, his mistress, his men, his struggles with coping with the party he's created kicking him out and with the fight for Poland's independence. Prior to last night, I had very little knowledge of Polish history. I only knew it was a great country, filled with proud people, located on a vast territory west of Germany and East of Russia, who used to split it between them as they saw fit.

When he hovers over a map of the world in one scene, we see how small Poland was at the start of the century. Great empires spanned all around it and the people were living in poor conditions.

Acting was good, scenery was well shot, and I could not shake the feeling that the leading role (Borys) looked like Tom Hardy ( :) )

PS: Cinema was filled with a lot of native Polish people who probably didn't need the subtitles that much but they made the atmosphere something different. Live reaction to situations, gasping, applauding, and generally laughing at all of the funny moments.

Well done.

I love going to the theatre and I absolutely love NT Live doing plays but sometimes it's hit and miss. This Shakespearian play was definitely a miss. Timed at over 2h30min, with no interval, I steadied myself for an experience which was shattered in the first few minutes of the play.

I don't understand who thought it would be a good idea to do the final play in a "rehersal" format? The actors were wearing jeans and sneakers, t-shirts and sportswear and I can see that no money was spent on the decor either. Shakespeare with no costumes, no props and 4 buckets with tags on them: Blood, water, soil and one other. The Blood gets thrown over the two people who were representing the counties who were defeated in the civil war. The blood pooled on the stage and people acting had to walk around it or sit in it.. It was awful!

I understand when sometimes the decor is optional - that it might distract from the main story or plot lines or distract from the acting. I've seen Dogville with Nicole Kidman and seen enough Lars von Trier to understand symbolism. But this - this was appalling. The play lines were delivered in rapid-fire, with no feeling put behind the words and I had to struggle to understand what was being said. I glazed over many, many times and would occasionally grab a bit of Shakespeare to still make me feel that I was watching a play.

Walked out after the first hour, frustrated with the experience and wanting a refund for my wasted time. Don't watch this. The producer gives a massive middle finger to the audience, letting it watch something that does not look any different from a rehersal and so low budget that it makes me think community theatre rather than a production which cost me £9 with my Cineworld card (£25 otherwise)

Just saw this movie last night and I could not understand what they were talking for half the movie. Needed subtitles badly.. patwa is pretty strongly accented and for someone not used to it I could make up one word in 5. Plot was basic... loads of raggae songs and I can't understand why they put an accent on the border patrols name if it didn't appear in the movie afterwards? Plus.. his woman keeps on taking him back after throwing him out multiple times.. not the strong character depicted early on. Ending was a bit crap too. Why did it rain in the park? Why was he standing farther away from the blanket? What did he do for work? Was he still pushing drugs? Did he get convicted for the double homicide? Did he ever pat retribution to the wife he left widowed? Their kids went to the same kindergarten

Off.. with.. their ... dreadlocks. 2/10

Bad, bad movie. I give a 2 out of 10 only for the beauty of the backgrounds and the photography. Charlize Theron... big deal. Even Kate Moss could have played in this stinky movie with no effort. All the leading lady had to do is look good in those really-fit clothes and whenever mimicking fitting, she had to look distant and out of thought. I can't feel the passion, the determination, the one thing that drives people to do something big. It seemed she was on drugs or something.. The idea of the whole movie could have been brought to view in a different manner, and it wasn't such a brilliant idea, as I expected. Cloning, yes, future disease, yes, test subjects, yes... but the way they put it... it is beyond crappy :)

Bye now! AAA, don't watch it!

I've seen the movie only recently, although it appeared in 2001. I hoped to see an entertaining movie, but let me tell you, Princess Blade is nothing compared to Azumi. The "princess" is not very talkative, as you may have noticed... She reminded me of Jean Claude Van Damme, who only stared to make his point, then beat the crap out of the opponents. During the entire movie, I waited to hear at least a confession about what she liked, why was she fighting, who did she love and trust. I waited in vain. Crappy movie. Crappy dialog. Don't watch it unless you want to be bored out of your minds! It's so bad, that in the end I was wondering how I managed not to scream in frustration 1 and a half hour. Approximately. I give a 4/10.

I give 3 stars only for the beautiful pictures of Africa. The rest was... well pretty boring. For about 50min we have the outline of the plot... In War of the worlds, the introductory part lasted, oh, about 10min? Then was real action! This is something like:"Let's take a walk in the savanna and gasp at the beautiful sunsets!". And maybe deliver a message, like "Don't kill elephants!". Very ecological. I would have expected this out of a "new" Steven Segal movie, not from this... The leading actress makes me think about artificial sun-tan, dyed hair and too much foundation! And I didn't see one scene where her hair is messed up, or she sweats, or her clothes are dusty. She just doesn't look like a 19 century woman! And in the bar, where they seek up our hero, Swayze makes a comment about the commander that he looks like Dracula. Hmmm, Bram Stoker wrote his book and published it in 1896, and it became famous in the next years. Livingstone and other explorers went to central Africa from 1840 to 1880. So unless the action takes place between 1896 and 1900.. Houston, we have a problem. :) Swayze makes a nice impression.. as a nutshell - hard on the outside, but soft and cuddly on the inside. Not that I would cuddle with a nut, but you get the point. He really manages to have that beaten puppy look on his face on several occasions. The movie stank. Way too long and increasingly boring. don't watch it! Don't buy it! It's a waste of your money!