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The Wheel of Time: Shadow's Waiting (2021)
Meh
I may be biased, as I have finished reading the first book juat s couple of weeks ago, but the pacing is terrible.
All this information is cramped into this tiny space and all you get is rush-rush-rush, no time to explain, just rush. Missing characters, missing places? To hell with those, rush, rush forward.
I'm okay with some racebending but it's too much plot bending for me. The thing I'm irritated with is the relationship between Moiraine and Lann. There's too little trust and too much bickering.
Also, a noble woman barely fazed by a wound from a trollock weapon that got Tam al'Thor bedridden? Clearly an Aes Sedai or a darkfriend. Off with their heads, the whole lot!
10 mil $ per episode of this? Not worth it, IMHO! Probably, Amazon flexing that they can go "Meh" with 80 mil.
All above is strictly my own non-expert opinion and may differ greatly with your experience of this episode and this series altogether.
Ji xian feng (2020)
Good fighting, bad writing
First, let's put it in perspective. Chinese movies nowadays have gone off the rails.
The bad stuff:
The plot is janky. There is no backstory, nothing, the characters are plain, the setting is nonsentical. The filming locations, obviously, very limited.
CGI is awful. I don't know if they didn't have any money, or the production was rushed, but the quality of the CGI is lower than what most videogames have nowadays.
The overall cheesiness. In general, a certain degree of cheesiness in Jackie Chan's movies is a given and is, actually, welcome. But here because of the lack of character development, it looks like a fondue of a movie.
The good stuff:
The story doesn't break continuity, as it happens with many modern Chinese movies.
The choreography and the stuntwork. It is actually good, the fighting scenes are well-set and look pretty decent.
Jackie Chan. Well, what can I say, the name says it all.
Overall, it's very similar to Armor of God III: Chinese Zodiac. I'd say it's an improved version of it.
Were this movie made by an indie studio, I'd say it's a solid action movie. But it wasn't and it's just not good enough to get more than 5 out of 10...
Doctor Who: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (2020)
Entertaining
Since when are silurians alien? According to the lore, they are the indigenous population of Earth...
And what's with the recent trend of obsession with Tesla? He is everywhere. It's getting tiresome.
The episode is pretty neat though. For the modern Doctor, that is.
The Twilight Zone: Mr. Denton on Doomsday (1959)
Lots of layers, like a good old onion
A rather interesting episode. The choice ofa melody in the beginning is very peculiar, it's from a russian song 'Iz-za ostrova na strezhen'.'. It's about Razin's cossack rebellion.
Here, we also see a rebellion of sorts, but at the same time the episode raises a question if any path taken is better than another one.
And also prople might be right about the cold war - a trader giving a drunk and depressed man a weapon and shooting it for him, so that everyone, including the man, thinks it was the drunkard pulling the trigger.
Murdoch Mysteries: Sir. Sir? Sir!!! (2018)
Halloween special
Quite an interesting Halloween side-story. Certainly looks like something George Crabtree might've written - right up his alley. I won't be surprized if in the next episode he will brag about his new novel's - "Invasion of Space Moths" - sales.
Murdoch Mysteries: The Spy Who Loved Murdoch (2018)
A little rant
I am sorry, but bare with me for a little bit. I understand, that it's just an entertainment TV show, so it won't influence the rating I give it but speaking from the point of historical fidelity, a russian ambassador would rather speak french to a french ambassador. Most Russian nobles, especially those close to the royal line, were brought up by french nannies and communicated in french, they considered russian to be a plebian language, and knew french much better than russian.
Lethal Weapon: In the Same Boat (2018)
Not eccentric enough
Basically it's a double act. Trying to get it to work with two 'straight men' is a bad idea. Murtaugh's part is not eccentric enough for this.
Sean Scott is a great actor, but not for this piece. He's got no mimcs whatsoever. He's like a robot or prince charming or an MI-6 agent. Too perfect. And this well-kept smooth bristle is so irritating, like ''man, either go shave or grow a beard or at least make it look a little bit unkempt".
I hope they'll get it to work, but I don't see it coming. Will wait and see, but for now it's a weak 4 stars.
Jonathan Creek: The Curse of the Bronze Lamp (2014)
Sherlock Holms had gone senile
The best of the 3 season 5 episodes, doesn't mean it's good tho. Jonathan is so dim-witted, that I'm beginning to wonder if it IS Jonathan.
An mediocre piece about a crime so mediocre, told in such a mediocre manner, that it makes the most boring Midsomer Murders episodes look like masterpieces.
Why do people watch Jonathan Creek - for witty, impossible crimes and ingenious solutions, not for mediocrity.
The standard is set and if you can't uphold it - why even try to fit something like this into the franchise.
It's like stories about Sherlock Holmes, when he's grown old and senile - we don't really need them.
Jonathan Creek: The Sinner and the Sandman (2014)
1 step from the absolute bottom
It's a step up, considering the first installment of the season - at least it has a mystery and a bit of consistency in the story.
Still a letdown, tho.
It should've been Jonathan lying down in that bed, not the failed old psychic, because everything he touches nowadays turns into an incomprehensible mush. And that comedic piece with 2 goofy robbers - so out of place.
Overall it feels toothless, the narration is sluggish, no meaningful mistery to solve.
Shows usually make such episodes as a tribute to someone, but that's when the show can allow itself to relax a little, not when it's struggling to return after a 2 decade break.
Jonathan Creek: The Letters of Septimus Noone (2014)
Jonathan Creek failing to be Jane Marple
I get it - experimantal storytelling and all that, but the plot is in shambles, it is fragmented and lacks a pivotal point.
It lacks personality - I see Creek changed, but I don't see what he's changed into. It's like lacking character-viewer intimacy. We used to see his professional and personal interactions, which got us a little into his head, but now his sidekick-wife is like not even there.
We used to have intricate plots, like a murder hidden by a suicide, hidden by another murder - that is to say, I don't need murder episodes per say, I just need a twist and some good storytelling.
The whole episode goes out of its way to mock the goofy Sherlock lookalike, and not solve the case in its entirety (it is probably about the original series beating the Sherlock series of its time, but do we really need such insights).
Please, make a reboot and show me some criminal magic.
Lost in Space (2018)
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Flagship Resolute
A brilliant adaptation of Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet - people of Earth evacuated all the imbeciles on an Ark to get rid of them, and they got trapped on a doomed planet. Now they need to overcome their greatest adversary, their own mental imparity, to get out of the deathly peril.
Will they be able to compensate for being braindead by clinging together and being helped by a super-strong robot? - Watch next on Netflix "Lost in Lpace".
Rush Hour (2016)
boring
It's sure terrible. They could've chosen someone more Asian-looking instead of grabbing Sasha Collins's twin. Third-rate camera work(Lee's fights will make the weak in the stomach puke), OVERLY loud music, that should've been ambient. Lee's acting like a piece of furniture, standing there straight with a poker face. Which is fine for Collins/Castiel, but not for a living person. Foolish jokes, veeery shallow ones, lower-than-a-slapstick-level ones, will make you yawn, and lack of adhesion between partners will make you turn it off. My Advice: watch some Martial Law, Rush Hour 1/2 movies, don't waste your time on this piece.