Reviews

I felt the first season was decent, the acting wasn't bad. I mean, it's a generic crime drama, and when we first see the suspect, I felt it was too obvious. Like it is in so many of these crime drama's and it's just to lead the viewer and the investigation astray. But not in this one, so we knew the real culprit for certain, from the first two episode.

I thought they could have shortened this season by an episode or two.

We followed Dylan and that family for too much of this story in my opinion.

For me personally, I felt there were a little too much welsh. I mean I get it, it's a welsh crime drama, and I appreciate watching thing in it's native language. But for me as a non-welsh speaker, it was just a tad much that everyone spoke it all the time. Because I had to read so many subtitles.

The ending however is quite rubbish. How can they just let him commit suicide like that? They just stood there watching and at most telling him to not jump. He had no weapon like a knife, so they could just have grabbed him, before he climbed that railing.

Visually a pleasing experience and Vikander matches the new Lara Croft gamecharacter well. It has a lot of elements from the games, almost feels like it's a bit too much, but then again that's also sort of how the games are.

The writing wasn't great for this, it doesn't really add up. And I also find the acting to be average at best, but that might come down to badly written dialogue as well. I rate it 6/10.

--- I just feel there is a bunch of silly stuff going on with the decisions throughout the movie. Mistakes that you wouldn't think an apparent skilled adventure-explorer would make.

--- First of all, why would she refuse to inherit her fathers money, because then somehow he wasn't dead? I mean that makes no sense.

So she would rather live on the povertyline, barely making ends meet.

--- How is it that she can read and understand old japanese scriptures and so on?

Being able to read maps, scriptures and solve puzzles.

The movie doesn't support any of that.

--- Sure we see her train a little with a bow and be decent at it at a younger age, but how does that suddenly make her the most bad-ass jungle-acrobat in the world once she arrives at Yamatai?

She is supposedly 21 years old at this point.

The only training we see her perform is some MMA and cycling in her adult life.

--- Why is it that at least the captain Lu Ren, who knows it is dangerous waters they will travel, doesn't alert anyone of their planned route/destination?

And also why don't they seem to bring any supplies what so ever, other than maybe Lara's fathers notebook?

--- Why is it that she takes down a guard/henchman, and she doesn't collect anything useful from the body?

Maybe at least a knife, maybe a firearm of sorts, cordage or first aid. That would be very logical, especially if you appear to be a skilled survivalist.

--- And in the tomb at the end, Lara first of all is the only one that seems to be able to read/solve anything. Which is odd since her father for example has studied this stuff non-stop for atleast a decade.

Maybe he could have helped solved the puzzle with the falling floor.

And yet she skill would have touched her father even after she knows he is infected and she knows what it does.

--- And lastly she at one point runs of in the tomb, without any sort of light source. And still she can find her way around, running full speed like it was broad daylight. I mean she wouldn't have been able to see a damn thing.

I thought it started out somewhat promising and with some good potential, but most likely needed a higher budget. But sadly quite early on, it just goes a bit sideways. And just turns into any generic low budget mystery-horror.

I thought the movie had a fair few good, but maybe not all are actually so historically accurate elements to the pyramid. But appreciated none the less.

The cast weren't horrible, but nothing above average. The dialogues was also decently written and didn't just seem half-assed and cringe as some movies of this caliber.

I did however sit through the whole movie and without skipping parts, so for that reason I wanted to still give it 5 stars. But the ending will have to cost it that one extra star.

! SPOILER PART BELOW ! However I think some key points to try and make it work, was just silly. Like they all have light-sources and yet the whole movie is super dark. I mean my tiny keychain LED-flashlight gives of more light than that.

Also right from the start they loose their "life-line" to the outside. Alright lets buy that for a second, but they also don't even remember which way they came in after walking of 100 meters. You could easily orientate yourself, by which thing they first faced when they crawled up to the apex room.

Another small thing is they said the drone cost 3 millions dollars, which is way above the mark. I looked up our police's anti-bomb drone which I assume is somewhat comparable and that costs 272.000 dollars.

I thought the "monsters" were quite well done. And I found Anubis depicted quite cool on the nightvision. However pretty lackluster in person. And the ending just became a right mess, sadly. How come the jackal like minions suddenly just seemingly random attack their master, after what is supposedly millennia in that pyramid/tomb together. Could atleast have finnished of a bit stronger.

This show is extremely slow to develop. Basically have to get over half way through the first season to even realise why its called cloak and dagger. The actors actually does a decent job and the dialouge doesn't seem forced.

There is little to no "action" until maybe the last couple episodes. And you see very little to their abilities. Seems like a cheap way to make a series on some teens with superpowers.

Still after the first season I still have no idea how or why they got their abilities. And how that all ties together with what else is happening. Because midway through the season we start getting introduced to what might aswell have been taking out of a zombiemovie. Which yet again isn't explained how or why they turn into raging zombies, that are out to kill people.

And on the final episode everything goes a little crazy, people turn into more zombies as the story repeats itself. Only to end in some rediculous way, where a beam of combined energy into the sky somehow, initially seem stop the zombies.

It is never a good sign when you start fast-forwarding a movie.

The concept for the movie is quite interesting. But sadly enough the movie has no body and no character. Can only rate the movie as average, due to redeeming factors of a good idea and decent cinematography.

The movie characters however, are dull and the dialogue is tiring. (Which is what I started to fast forward through). All the "flashbacks" seems purely there as a filler to lenghten the runtime. It is listed as part horror, but there is genuinely nothing even remotely scary about the movie, which was a disappointment to me.

The concept of the movie makes it impossible to visualise whatever it is that the people see. Without ruining the mystique and the part that does intrigue, but "its" presence is visualised quite well in my opinion.

This movie isn't particularly good, but it's okay for a single watch. But the movie is fairly fast paced, it's basically only an hour and 20 minutes. Sure, the plot has holes and the logic is really quite silly at certain points during the movie. Had those not been there, I would have rated it 6, no problem. But there were action, and it was fast paced, so atleast not to get boring. The plot itself was very predictable, but I never expected much else. The quality of the cinematography and the action however... not all that great, but for me it worked alright, atleast enough for me to watch the whole movie. For me, the movie were actually decent enough, for the most part. It was mainly towards the ending that I had the hardest time with it. The acting felt solid enough, but the druglord, played by Epps were clearly the worst to me. The 3 brothers Hause, Ashmore and Holmes did a decent job, so did Willis, when he were on screen, which he barely were. Also "hecnhman" no. 1, played by Brosnan also did a good job.

Biggest gripes I had with the movie:

1: A few big ones for me, were that supposedly two of the brothers are well trained marines. Yet they don't foresee that their identity might be compromised as they go full rambo on a druglord. Just casually leaving the wife at home as if it were any regular day. She should have been sent to some remote cabin, paid in cash.

2: Also why would you assault the druglords major operation headquarter, without much in sense of tactical entry and tactics. They just walse right in, and with a policeshield for only cover. They hit the druglord, rescue the hostages and leave. Never even checking to make sure he is down for the count and no double-tap. You could see the revenge hit, he would soon make on them, coming from a mile off.

3: And why would you (a), use you own truck, without atleast hiding its numberplate and (b), why would you return to your everyday address between skirmishes and also plan meetings there.

4: And during the last fight at the house, as the one brother gets shot. The 3rd brother (untrained), but still. He just rushes out infront of a weapon he clearly know is there, because he just saw his brother get shot. He however, decides to turn his back to the gun, so he can cry over his brothers dead body. And for some reason the "badguy" with the weapon, should have killed the 3rd brother long ago, but figures he wants to do it excecution-style, which is tempting, I guess. Now that he is kneeling down, facing away... but still.