Awake not Woke!

Forgettable

“Are you incapable of restraining yourself, or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?” - Professor Snape to Hermione. And it’s become a trope to define all “strong” female characters in modern film. They lack any trace of humor or humility and exist merely to be a-holes: better than everyone else. The particular offender in this film isn’t in every scene, but she’s in enough of them to bring the entire production down several notches.. simply with the expression on her face. Meanwhile, Jeff Goldblum was wasted as was BD Wong. Meh, bad movie anyway.

Pleasant surprise

I wasn't sure what to expect from this. Most dystopian style movies find some way to blame plastic straws and Styrofoam for the bleak future of rising oceans, poverty and climate change. There's nothing like that here. If there's any woke in this flick, I completely missed it. The acting and directing are top tier. The special effects are as good as anything going. The movie continued to develop the original story in a very interesting direction. It was a little slow moving at times but that works here. At 164 minutes, it still somehow seemed too short. I saw this in the theaters when it first came out. It took watching it a second time to get the full impact of the story. It's not shallow. It's real science fiction. It's rare that a sequel is as good as the original. I would call this a must-see for any fan of the original Blade Runner.

I started this Korean show thinking it was a normal series with a zombie outbreak while filming a gameshow and you follow the characters while they try to survive. Sadly it is not. It's an actual unscripted gameshow with actors playing themselves in a fake zombie outbreak with other actors playing zombies. If any of them gets 'bit' they then have to act like a zombie. It's so lame and annoying and poorly shot. There is a narrating voiceover describing what they are doing on screen. Why? They put icons over zombies heads like in a videogame, again why? I only made it to the second episode when they decided in a Korean show that takes place in Korea to add 2 black African siblings to the cast. Lot of that in Korea is there? So much for reality, but that's Netflix for you. Unless you really like those awful fake 'reality' type shows avoid this garbage at all costs.

Most of the acting is pretty bad and the story is as generic and unoriginal as it gets. It's another rogue A.I. gone bad movie. It's the typical low budget badly made film, think late night 90's sci-fi channel. The fx are bad, the action scenes are bad, there's really no reason to watch it. There is a token black British character. Naturally the white female character is all over him and they hook up. They just must squeeze that mixed race couple checkbox in. There's some lite feminism moments but not too bad.