Awake not Woke!

Definately worth watching, more so than normal NCIS.

I'm really enjoying this so far, there are a few masculine characters but along with that some bullshit. Like of course there are a couple of cuntish, disrespectful women in it and the main guy seems to be falling in love with one of them wheras any actual self respecting man wouldn't go near these women. But they aren't enough to ruin it, and not as bad as the woman in the latest Reacher season. Otherwise fairly worth the watch, enjoyable and interesting. I've seen some of the original NCIS but don't think i've ever watched a full episode. This one doesn't feel like it's the same character, but I watched it standalone cos the trailer looked good, not having watched the original enough to really compare.

Smashing.

First series: fantastic writing, concise, meaningful dialogs, tight photography. Found it superior to Daredevil. The Punisher is less super-hero, more gritty film noir. Well, there's still Hollywood trauma recovery, and Hollywood balistic, which are somehow more jarring in a more realistic context. I would say the purely action part is inferior to the Ennis run of the comic, as Castle can be something of a meathead, whereas Ennis' Punisher was a cold, calculated, tactical killing machine. Characters are great, no effort skipped in developing even tertiary characters, and the acting is rock solid. Still, white men can be good or bad, but all bad characters are white men. It's Hollywood, baby. Second series, well, introduces a single mom love interest (young boy, sort of makes sense in Castle's case), and a sassy, mean, juvenile girl-boss. The kind to give lip when she's just been rescued from assassination, and is even further out of her depth than she is up her own arse. In short, an unlikeable moron. An unfortunate choice for someone present in most scenes. She does get better over time, but only marginally. Far less screen time, which is an improvement. The female mercs start kicking less arse in the second half, because a 100 pounds disadvantage is one hell of a disadvantage. Tactically speaking, everybody has a two-digits IQ; the "woods at night" scene is particularly egregious. Honestly, it feels like they started to wokify the whole thing, and thought better of it halfway through. The new actors are, well, probably less expensive. At least, Stewart is excellent. Photography still top-notch. Music's good. Alice In Chains, always nice. The writing is still decent. Sort of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Punisher style, with a side dish of Harley Quin (although Mr J is rather unconvincing). Still excellent, but definitely a sophomore slump.

Nothing woke but I did exit out at the 45 minute mark. The acting is fine and the cinematography and time period is well done. The main problem here is that it plays out more like a docudrama than an actual movie. There isn't really any plot or main storyline to follow and for some reason they decided to tell most of it from the point of view of one of the club members wives. That is the big problem is the character of Kathy the narrator. This might be one of the all time most annoying brain bleed inducing voices ever, and you will here it A LOT! The movie isn't so much bad as it is just so pointless, meandering and dull. Like a wannabe Scorsese on valium.

I didn't notice anything overly woke other than the ships first mate in real life was male and was gender swapped in the movie to female for no reason other than DEI. The acting is mostly good and as far as I was able to tell the story seemed to be very accurate to the true events. None of the usual overblown Hollywood 'lets make it better and add a bunch of things that never happened' nonsense. It's a good story and an entertaining watch.