Awake not Woke!

DEI casting, especially silly given this is a Kiwi film that takes place in Kiwiland. Nothing else though.

This suffers the same woke fate as Gladiator II did. Rampant modern femenism. Again they cast Numidians as all black Africans. This is complete B.S. They were North African and NOT BLACK but a Mediterranean people. Here in ancient Rome I swear half the damn cast is black and naturally they are an oppressed yet good people. The acting is pretty bad, the CG and green screen are an absolute eye sore, the sets are way to clean, plastic and fake looking. Forget about any sort of historical accuracy this is pure fiction. I barely made it through 1 complete episode and pulled the plug on this complete garbage.

I like the general idea here but I feel like I've seen something similar before just not sure where. It's a look at a possible afterlife scenario and what happens when we die. The acting is up and down but the story is very poorly thought out. This is a horrible afterlife and I would say closer to hell. So you get to choose an eternity but only 1 and once you choose you are stuck there forever without a chance to change. All the choices are extremely specific and would get old very very quickly and become repetitive. You can't go see any friends or family because if you do you are stuck in whatever eternity they chose to be in forever with them. There are tons of rules and if you break them you are banished to a black void for eternity. This sounds miserable. I found this rather unfunny and more annoying than anything with some rather unlikable characters. I made it to 40 minutes and just didn't care to go any further. As for the woke there is the usual DEI casting including the obese body positive black female. Then there is the 'Eternity' choices, most of the them are extremely woke worlds. Including 'queer world-no straights allowed', 'man free world-you've dealt with your last man' full occupancy of course and and 'Aristocratic world that pushed colonialism as theft of resources and land from native people'. There were others but you get the idea, it's pretty eye rolling and clubs you over the head with the messaging.

Loosely based on a Florida serial killer in the 1970's. This is a very well made movie with pretty good acting and the 70's period is very well done. However it's marketed as a thriller but that's really a secondary story. It focuses way more on the family dynamic and teen angsty romance drama than anything else. I's not really a bad movie just not a serial killer thriller. The only woke is some DEI including the child characters black best friend. Another one I would really say is more of a 2.5 but for me I just don't think it's a 3.