Awake not Woke!

These awful action comedies are becoming a genre all there own. At this point I would settle for just average. For woke there's the usual DEI casting, the strong, smart can do anything black female, the incompetent bumbling white male. There are some capable actors here but they are giving nothing to work with from this writing. Walberg's character is a little too stupid. This is a top tier secret spy agency that apparently is a 50 and up job. I mean 59 year old Berry is unbelievable as an active field agent and her stunts are laughable. She just looks awkward and slow in her action scenes. Even Wahlberg who looks more capable is recruited at 54. Really? These agents appear to know nothing about blending in and stealth as they all stand out like a sore thumb. Berry is like the geriatric terminator easily killing her way through everything in sight including hand to hand with multiple larger younger men. Then a female villain just manhandles and beats up the much larger Wahlberg, the gets easily beat by Berry as she effortlessly picks her up and slams her down backwards in a suplex that I burst out laughing at. I will say the action scenes at least are done a bit better than these types of movies but it's still no enough and I gave up at 45 minutes.

Good story. Lead role is lesbian.

I'm through episode 3. The lead role, Carol, was established to be lesbian in episode one. Her partner gets killed off within the first few minutes so Carol is by herself. There was a flashback in Episode 3 showing the two checking into a theme-hotel. There was no depiction of affection beyond the same kind of hug that sisters would share. This doesn't seem to be a LGBT... agenda, just an incidental thing. It still deserves a tick on the woke-meter. There may be more flashbacks, or even future relationships. Perhaps this aspect was just to check the box for the inclusion-Nazis. The theme of this series is genuine sci-fi. The hive-mind concept is well presented. In short, everyone knows everything that humanity has ever experienced. Anyone can perform brain surgery, fly an airliner, or replace a broken axle on a truck. When you talk to anyone, you're talking to everyone. It sounds simple, but there's a lot to it. Rhea does a great job as the cynical Carol. She's kind of a one-dimensional character, but it fits. According to Vince Gilligan, the part was written with her in mind. I'll make edits as the series progresses. Good sci-fi is rare. I'm hopeful with this one.

Had to find my bearings after starting this film

Now I remember. I started and may have even finished Terrifier and might not have even seen the second film in the series. It was kind of kooky film, but for some reason, I never categorically finished any of the Terrifier films, quite possibly because Jenna Kanell who, according to the Internet, is the great socialist, ecofeminist (WTF that is), vegan lesbian, bi-sexual or whatever we have these days actress, sporting the short man-boy haircut. Even after posting this review, I just couldn't place how or where I knew of Jenna Kanell. I really knew a lot about her, except that she was this big lesbian socialist. Then it hit me. I must have surfed to a non-lesbian related website that featured her and she's downright gorgeous without the awful haircut. Why do that to yourself? Fine if you're a woman who likes women, but we humans kind of enjoy looking nice, right? Anyhow, I got to the part in Faceless After Dark where Jenna is in the sack with her Asian girl lover. Bluuch. Poor Jenna. Partisan politics stole her beauty. Wait. Aren't socialists inherently ugly? Like they spent 10 years in the gulag? The scene here is pure propaganda since no healthy man will find that a sexy one. Off you go.

Emotional

I wanted to re-watch Paris, Texas for a while now since I remembered that I liked the film, but none of the plot. Must have watched it a long time ago. It's an emotional downer, for sure. Not much to be happy about, but a whole lot to think about. Zero films today are made with such subtle - and not so subtle - flaws in their characters and with an ending that's not completely ambiguous. It's a great film that provides enough to think about without falling into the film-school scholar or, worse yet, hipster pontificator, zone. Paris, Texas is worth the re-watch.