Reviews

This might have worked for a mini-series. But this is a dance between everybody and basically god, it is just stupid. Hannibal is omni sentient and omni potent. He can go everywhere, do everything and knows everything as well. And the FBI makes sure it seems normal. This makes for very boring stuff. No intelligence was put into making Lector a man. No intelligence was put into trying to track him down. Add a prophet that has some divine vision. Aaaaaarghhh forget it, it's just a polished 5 year old cod liver. All visuals, no story. Don't hope for release, this will go on till it's canceled. Don't hope for release, this will go on till it's canceled. Don't hope for release, this will go on till it's canceled. (Hey if they can do it and get a 8 plus rating why shouldn't I?)

It is clear that the writers of this show knew nothing about the old Viking society or it's rules. It's not for nothing that the first true democracy was established in Iceland where every free man had his vote. What the show depicts is a Stalinistic take on that society which is completely wrong. A ruler like the earl would reign for about a week before he was chopped to bits. I guess it's done that way for the drama but then name the show something else because it has nothing to do with what life was like when every man that was not a slave was a free man entitled is own opinions in that time in that place. Killing a smith (influencial people then because a sword could be worth more than 20 cows or an entire farm) because he made an anchor? Really?

How do you fight the vampires? You shout at them and if you recognize someone you don't fight unless you first you a deep inventory of how you feel. How do vampires fight? They come close, do a little act and then they do nothing allowing you to cut them down. This show seems to have taken it's clues on how to do action from South Parks view on professional wrestling. Blablablablablablabla, ohh maybe I should cut the monster I've been chasing all my life up a bit. Ooops, too late. This show is just annoying. It lacks all sense of speed. And that is just the fighting. 'Biggest' city in the world is experiencing some kind of disaster but having it sealed off and investigated will thwart your plans. How do you fix this? You throw someone off the building. Groan. Dumb show without action or logic.

Wow, the science and characters in this one are even dumber than in the first one. I'm curious how low they can go and still have people pointing out the flaws. It will probably be more efficient to point out the things that can actually happen. I counted 1, you can actually infect someone with a virus using a spray to get some droplets in his respiratory system. Using a sprinkler system to wash the air, not so much. The way the show deals with biohazard stuff is worth mentioning. Setting up patients with unknown diseases in their own home and having your anthrax carrying bio-lab exit almost directly in an alley and it's entry in the records-room? Good stuff!!! Breaking the quarantine only because the patient is 'hot enough already' based on her laptop having a virus? Priceless! Dumb story, dumb science, dumb characters, dumb problem, good show!

Good show that takes a p1ss at series like House and CSI. A lot of people don't seem to get the joke but I thought it was pretty funny. One or two errors could be bad writing but for this number they really must have been trying hard. The nice thing is they aren't all that obvious because people have already been fed loads of science BS in other shows. Hard disk gets wiped by a car speaker (almost no magnetic field) Girl stands up through roof at 200 mph (just try doing that with your hand) Almost all of the computer interactions take about 1 second. Looking at a photograph lets you find out where the hard drive is. And the characters are just as funny. The kid doesn't talk to anybody but his mom but somehow went to a normal school till recently. Fat guy is a chess grand master that loses a game to a kid in 8 moves. Hat guy totally understands people but makes them want to kill him (masochist I guess), China girl is tech wizz that almost electrocutes herself and forgets about the magic car speakers and the main character isn't smart enough to understand that things can be used for multiple purposes at 16 and goes around telling people he has met for 5 minutes that his IQ is 187 (police code for murder, I really liked that one!). The list goes on and on. Add a 00:07 bomb-moment about every minute and you got a very funny subtle parody disguised as a regular show. Nice one!

Ohh and btw, scrambling some fighter jets to escort the 'blind' planes would solve the problem without all the fuss. I guess my IQ is murder too.

Hope they add a sociopath on steroids to the team for the enforcement jobs.

Jesse already had the personality needed for the episode, sometimes more than 1 in an episode. But now suddenly Hank has become an anti-criminal mastermind and Walter is running around without thinking, full of emotions. Hank has also become bulletproof. Great writing, not! Next thing Skyler will become a loving caring wife with a laid back attitude and the son will be asked to sign for the NBA and receive a Nobel peace prize.

The whole buried barrels of cash plot is just weak weak weak. The whole not checking for GPS on the van after spending a season about it's dangers is weak. Walt screaming in the car, weak. Opening up on guys standing without cover full auto with a shotgun at 20 yards without landing a single hit...... Cars stopping slugs, bringing pistols when you have rifles. What was that whole stand off thing about anyway? Just aim and shoot, that was the plan anyway.

The only good thing about this episode was the small presence of Skyler. Nice to know there are only 3 episodes left to totally change what made this series great.

While the idea behind this series is brilliant somehow the writers are unwilling to progress the story further than what already happened in season 1. Sure, the bad guys die and are replaced by other bad guys but the situation Walter White is in the middle of season one is the same as where he is now, s05e11. Nothing really happened. Make some money, don't use it and have your wife nag at you, your side kick be angry at you and himself, your brother-in-law at your heels and his wife being a nag as well. He becomes harder but he still makes the same hard decisions the same way. This is no Sophranos, this is more like the A-team, the same episode with different players every episode. There is not a man alive that could love Skyler enough to still do so after 4 seasons. And he is obviously in love with Jesse Pinkman because keeping cool with his mistakes is something his personality has no reason whatsoever to do. And now at the end his brother in law has a moment of clarity caused by his initials while the dude has been showing up all the time in his investigation with no effect. Suddenly he is Mr Supercop. Plus 1 for Heisenberg, Gus, Mr Pollo, Gale and Saul. Minus 2 for Skyler and Pinkman because they really annoy. Minus 2 also for a story that doesn't go anywhere, there are no real consequences.

Sick people are immune to zombie aggression. And it takes a retired hipster UN investigator to find this out (because he is really good at running away). Wow, who sold this brilliant, not in the book, plot-piece to the studio? I guess there are no HIV-positive communities in New York and all those hospitals filled with only normal patients and zombie doctors and nurses.

The rest of the story is also for the brain dead. The hipster doesn't communicate his results but does call his wife. Like a true James Bond kinda guy there is always an evil dude around to tell you part of his evil plan. A few people singing behind a 30 meter high wall(who just wandered out of a totally zombie infested area)are too loud but helicopters flying over the area are not. Zombies have anti-gravity booths to climb the wall or wolverine-like skeletons because having 20 zombies on top is just fine for them (but shooting knees works fine). Somehow it is more efficient to transfer 4 people 4000 miles than it is to let them keep their small cabin, the captain of a jet carrier says so after hipster dude goes missing for 1 day. Aaaaarghh, it just doesn't make any sense. Like making a zombie movie without zombies and gore but with at least 45 minutes of totally useless family dribble. Voice over: "I'm hipster dude, I love my family. To protect them I'm on this mission." Images from the outbreak while the voice over plays. Ending with annoying daughters waving on the flight deck. That could have saved a good 40 minutes of boredom for me. This movie is really very bad. Just watch the trailer 2 times, you won't miss a thing.

I'm waiting for part 2, it will probably have a transformer, Thor from the Avenges and an alien or a predator in it. A former freed black slave, a 1850's dressed white dude and a bronze terminator in medieval China (but they have Gatling guns)? A good story has matched forces, the man with the Iron fists has an idiot metal guy on one side (working for peanuts while he could have ruled all of China) and an escaped negro slave blacksmith on the other. Then the blacksmiths arms are cut of and he hold the stumps against 2 blocks of iron in the form of arms. Voila, he has functioning metal arms with superhuman power behind it and a back tattoo. All because he spend a few years with some monks (also transforming him from a guy that makes horse shoes to an expert super weapons maker). That is pretty much how the whole story goes. It doesn't make any sense. Russell Crow, a white man, plays a master of disguise without covering his face most of the time and is the special trusted guy for the emperor for some unclear reason. The lover of the blacksmith tries to poison bronze man with a cocktail fork while everybody already knows he is invulnerable to knives and swords with a lot of power behind it. And where is the factory that keeps turning out those hordes of Lions? They die and die and die but there never are any less. The whole motivation of the plot is: there is gold, everybody who's bad wants it enough to die for it. Somehow it think NZA confused the Chinese with doped up ghetto gang bangers that only think in bling bling, intercourse and violence. This whole movie is an insult to the Chinese, story telling and thinking in general and kung fu movies in particular. I gave it a three because of the production quality and the fact that it's relatively short. Only watch this if you are so stoned or drunk you couldn't find your own behind or a born that dumb.

Man, that was some annoying soundtrack. Did they have a computer program it? Explosions and orchestra don't make a good movie. A good writer, director and composer do. This ranks among the new star wars as being too much bang without any soul. People who like this should just buy a xbox or playstation and play some fps. Better storyline for sure.

Russell shoots ten guys but lets the bad dude stab him? Repeat.

Cut to Deadliest catch (sheeple like that, let's put that in), an oil- rig is burning: "What about the men left inside?" "Forget them, they are dead." And then they land a helicopter on the burning platform, enter superman.

Is this whole movie filled with retards? Yes, it is. It is also made by them.

Alternative: Russell:"Sure, I'll join your well timed rebellion. I hate these geriatrics too. Wait a sec while I get my super-duper armour from home. Don't forget to shoot the rest of these old dudes and get me some nachos. The planet will be fine. Don't worry." Gets a few babies and the skull thingy, flies to earth with his wife and future girlfriends for his kid. The end.

Better than the northville cemetery massacre but that is about it.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter containing 100–400 billion stars. The bug planets are on the other side of it from us, at least 50,000 light-years away. Meaning even with the speed of light those asteroids would have needed to travel 50,000 years before hitting earth (talk about good aim). I think this information was given deliberate in the movie and points to a false flag attack. Also loads of death young people lead to a greater feeling of patriotism and willingness to endure a totalitarian regime which might be why the first assault is as dumb as landing on the most fortified area of the Atlantic coast on d-day was. But maybe that is giving the excellent screenplay too much credit.

I saw a real stinker. This was one of the worse series I've ever seen.

H.L. Mencken lived by the motto "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Well it seems that no show gets canceled doing the same.

Plenty has been written about how the good guys couldn't find an elephant in the room (and then are slaughtered by it). And how the bad guys seem to know everything without a valid reason. What I found most annoying was the fact that all victims (cops on sentry duty with 50 slain collagues included) just rolled over and died. None fought. Bad guys stabs someone, bang they are dead. Good guys stab someone and it's just a flesh wound. They walk out the door, get 15 red dots on they chest and walk back in again. Make a deal with a leading bad guy who knows where all the others are? Don't ask him that. Kidnap him to take you to the son of the uber bad guy (don't cuff him and turn your back to him of course). Well that is not quite true the damsel in distress is even more annoying. Her getting killed at the very end is worth 1 star. Running out of bad guys? Well a new bad guy has just recruited 50 of them and they are holed up in a 5-10 million mansion nobody in town knows about. When they turn up in the small gymnasium of a small town that is on red alert not a single towns person seems to notice. This is probably because they are all morons electing the sheriff is a history major who was in college 9 years earlier with no connection to the town. What kind of public can relate to this drivel?

What is best about zombie movies? People reacting to a new terror. Sometimes they make it, sometimes they don't. But in good zombie flicks they make the right logical decisions. They can still be overwhelmed. But they never act as dumb as these guys 'n galls. And in the good movies the zombies don't surprise with actions out of character for suspense (like laying dead and suddenly go all zombie). This is about series 3 (yeah I have no live and continued on through series 1 and 2). After all this time why do they still pass corpses without giving them one to the head? Zombies at a fence? Just let them walk looking for weak spots. Corpses without bite marks? Just step in their crotches. Ohhh lockable gates, lets leave them open to see what comes through. I had my hopes up when the crew finally went for a safe place. But the writers just had to have some stupid stuff to get the thrills. *Ahhh riot gear, used against unwanted bites. Nahhh, I don't want it! I feel much better putting down zombies in the nude with a pencil!!!* And made the show illogic ville once again. Weak! There is so much to make this a classic if these dudes would just act rational. It's not as if a world overrun with living dead has no hooks for emotional content.

A deus ex machina (Latin: "god from the machine") is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on usage, it can be used to move the story forward when the writer has "painted themselves into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, or to bring a happy ending into the tale.

In Skyfall's case it is also about the only plot device used. The team of nitwits that wrote this script should never be allowed near a computer again ever.

If the really stupid super-criminal had kidnapped and tortured M like he was tortured because of M, with JB on a revenge mission, the story might have worked. The way it has been done now was just polishing a turd.

This series gets more annoying the further is goes. The main storyline is about war and the way the federation totally stinks at it. Both from a rational as an operational point of view. Without the help of super-beings helping them they would have lost multiple times. From a rational point they rather help a race of genocidal beings survive after they have killed billions upon billions of beings than allow a single member of that group to become collateral damage even though they have killed thousands themselves sending them to the front lines. Pure holier than thou drivel of 1 dimensional characters who never look in the mirror to confront the oceans of blood on their own hands. Also nice to see that in the 90's a man of color always had to have colored love-interests, all of the Sisko's only had brown women. Sad.

Where to begin? This movie doesn't do anything right.

The main character is a whining emo sun walking vampire. After slaughtering a bar full of people he and his too dumb to breath sister and brothers vampires manage to set themselves up in Europe somehow. There they meet up with a family of uber-vampires who have killed gazillions of normal people and vampires like them but who fail to kill a single one of these retards, they just like to push them and play with them. They do this while being, like, super-serious. The retards then kill them using vampire-skills against vampires who are as superior to them as they are to normal people.

The end.

Did I mention the 'lovestory'? Well, for no reason the youngest of the uber-vampires rescues the emo vampire and kills her brothers. Probably because he is so cool or something.

It tries to hide the lack of story by jumping around in the time line every 5 minutes. OK, moron is in a box, how does he get out? No, how does he get in. No suspense.

It's like watching a sad Monty Python killer bunny for 80 minutes without it trying to be funny.

I have no idea what kind of audience will be entertained by this crap. Even stoned retarded goth kids in puppy love will vomit.

This one could have been very good if only they had made the 2 main characters slightly believable.

Sean Bean plays a troubled MI5 guy who walks around corners blind every time and can't beat a 60-70 kilogram law student in a fight. He even tries a choke on a guy in a bomb vest.

Abhin Galeya plays a 31 year old Arab law student who somehow is also Jason Bourne but who can't press a button and openly argues brute force in class. He beats a guy into a pulp in their regular university bar but doesn't get arrested and openly hangs out with a guy who is a known Islamist but is "off the radar". Did I mention he has an alcoholic drug using girlfriend?

All other persons of interest are equally unbelievable but this wouldn't have shown so much if Bean had been more washed up all the time to explain all his many f**k ups and Galeya had been a fit 6 foot yuppie with combat training.

Then there is the torturer/soldier who runs around like an Friday the 13th girl.

The hotel dude who goes up to an masked guy with a gun with an "excuse my sir".

A trained body guard actively puts people between him and his charge by sprinting up the stairs for no reason before f**king up against a shrimp in a fight and getting shot dead in the vest.

The big bad fat guy who doesn't notice his Glock has no bullets (half the weight) and tries to protect himself behind a suitcase full of Semtex, which we are told will explode if hit by a bullet.

Last but not least, disabling the cameras 'to cover' MI5's part. Like nobody goes: "Hey, wait a minute. How come all these cameras were suddenly offline?" And if they wanted the bombings to happen. Why the hell do they send Bean out to stop it? Just put him on suspended leave.

Come on Bean, you've done this often enough to do it right.

6 points for the effort and the proper ending.

I feel sorry for the producers of this show. They can portray women as not taken as full members of society (which it hedges with a retarded love story of the main villain with a washed up mother of three with a beaten dog view of life but who throws away food) but then they allow an influential white klansman being tortured to death by a 'negro' in a central police station in the 1920's after an official arrest. Good luck keeping the troops in line after that in those times. The chief would have had an "accident" within 24 hours. Or politicians and government officials, how much persiflage can you endure? How did they suddenly lose power to be the lapdogs of petty gangsters? And the WW1 vet with PSD that acts like a 90210-teenager. Then you get a group of dwarfs talking about degrading work. :')

Either you do a take on history or you follow the rules that applied then. This show does the first but markets itself as doing the second. It's like the original Star Trek, trying to be modern but ensuring itself of being an icon of the morals of the production day. I'm sure that this series will be a much more interesting to watch 50 years from now. Just like a white hat, black hat western. Which this is, but really really slow.

Good actors, good production, good everything but the script. Which makes the show.

*****************SPOILER ALERT*************** It just makes no sense.

Medics working in the middle of a shooting with the deranged shooter walking with the gun meters from them. They are working on a guy who is splurting blood in the liters from his neck, talk about quick reaction and being immune to reason. The police are not shooting a loony who points a gun in their direction. People "drinking meth" and then explode while this all takes place.

The vet is in super shape after 2 years of hanging in a trailer used a as a blood bag. 1 long range rifle, 1 shotgun. The vet storms the house with the rifle and gives the shotgun as long range backup to his brother. The vet doesn't explain anything to his brother. The vet takes his hippy anti-violence brother with him but not his brothers in arms. The brother takes anti-rabies with him on a pay back mission. And uses this while his brother is storming a house full of maniacs. The vet doesn't kill the people that tortured him for 2 years. And that was the whole idea. The vet's place has been taken a week before he escaped. The vet's wounds are healed. 100 year old guy with knife in left hand is shot in right shoulder 1 sec before planting it in vet's chest and suddenly decides to run to no logical destination, away from his mother an sister. And this is a guy who has been slaughtering for at least 70 years. An 80 year old in a young body can't kill a retarded hippy standing 1 meter away with a knife she has been using most of that time. The medic doesn't hold any resentment for the people who tortured his brother. And falls in love with one. After telling everyone for 15 minutes how he would have died for his brother. Whom he resents deeply 5 minutes later. The girl tries to kill the medic for no reason. The monster escapes 5 minutes after the storm the house for no given reason after being 'locked up' for 70 years.Guy trading 5 crates of glass jars of jam(?) for a bag op onions and some apples. Even if this was just for the suspense, it is still retarded.Guy executed by a shot to the head, brought back from the dead and is put down by destroying his ... brains.

etc etc etc

Not a second of this movie makes any sense whatsoever.

And it could have been so easy. Make the escaped brother the medic (and leave him wounded and hurt but knowing they have to act now). And the vet the one out for revenge for his brother and the one people blame for his disappearance. Direct the anger of the vet against the people on the farm first while the escaped brother knows more but is not believed by the vet. Add in a nasty bit of juvenile abuse/love by the Nazi to explain the knowledge of the girl to destroy the monster. And have her release he medic out of love for a good heart. Have the monster binded to the stone until his metamorphosis, but with most of the needed stuff (why does he take the bone-armor with him from Germany?) to destroy him in his circle of influence.

This one could do with a make over. Why is it that people used to think before they shot or published?

Nicely shot though. Just turn your brain off before you press play.