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Not woke free

Just a little bit better than other marvel movies but woke elements are still there including a lesbian couple

I hate to type this being a long-time Jack Reacher fan

Season 1: Great start. Gritty. Captures the essence of the original book well. Except for that one moment with Neagley... and her amateurishly-handled "no means no" scene.

Season 2: The deviation from the source material is uncanny.

You see, one of the best scenes in the book is when Reacher deciphers a crime scene (Calvin Franz's apartment) with incredibly detailed, razor-sharp detective skills. In the book, the scene really succeeds in showing a unique angle of Reacher's prowess in a way that only Lee Child can.
But that same scene is shown in the series as a moment for (yep) Neagley to (very explicitly) shine as the "smarter version of Reacher".

Lee Child's explanation about this?
"Reacher thinks a lot, and [in the books] there are pages and pages of Reacher puzzling things out. You can’t write an eight-minute scene with Alan Ritchson sitting there, thinking. So we needed a secondary character to bolster the exposition."
Yeah. Sure you did, Lee. Just admit you had a box to check to appease the producers.

Season 3: So far, only 3 episodes out.
Here's the thing... "Persuader" is my favorite Reacher novel. And I can say with absolute certainty that they nailed every important aspect so far. From the locations to the characters (minus some creative differences).
Except the female cop.
In the book, Susan Duffy isn't even 1% of the insufferable hag she is on screen. In the book, she's actually believable.
Season 3 wanted something else, apparently.
Tough-sassy-woman-better-than-her-male-colleagues? Check. In fact, the 3 first episodes are infested with those. And these "boss-lady" scenes aren't subtly executed either. To the point you'd think a socially frustrated high-school sorority girl wrote them.
Horrendous fake accent? Also check. But this is more of a nitpick... because it isn't nearly as annoying as the previous problem.

EDIT (after watching about 5 minutes of episode 4):
Susan Duffy [to Reacher]: "you might be bigger than me, but you are not more important than me. so shut the fuck up and tell me what i need to know."
He IS more important than you, bitch. It's his show.

I'm done.

I could state more issues with the overall series. But I'll let viewers come to their own conclusions.

I don't watch a lot of shows or movies these days. You can't expect good from Hollywood all the time. But Jack Reacher was something I'd give a chance every so often, thanks to the legacy of the original books. IDK if I'll continue though. Got more important things in life to spend my energy on. Hence this'll probably be my last review.

Just that it's sad to see an incredible character like this get nerfed in his own live-action show.

Good movie overall, not entirely accurate

It's mostly correct except for having a out of place Black dockhand in 1830 Germany. It's a small role but with the purpose to never let a movie be all White cast even when it's required. The director's previous movies make me think this was not his but the studio/producers decision thats why i still have a positive opinion of the overall.

Poor Writing and Too Stupid to Live Main Character

Nothing woke. Yet another movie with awful writing and characters. Set 10 years after an apocalypse of some sort. There is no dialogue of any
sort in the entire movie and it makes no sense at all. There is no reason given and all the characters grunt and make sounds but just refuse to
speak. It's so stupid, if you want to make a silent movie than at least give a reason for it otherwise it just comes off as annoying and dumb.
Literally a sentence at the beginning explaining a chemical weapon or virus that destroyed vocal chords and your done. The main character is so
stupid it's hard to believe he could manage day to day life currently much less survive 10 years into an apocalypse. Roaming packs of murderous dogs that don't seem all that dangerous and seem to have lost the ability to smell as they can't locate people right next to them. The shelter appears to be a loose gathering of twigs covering an opening for a door so no security at all and the dogs could just push their way right in if they just remembered to smell. There seems to be a food issue as we are shown a dead fish at one point and people are resorting to cannibalism yet there are animals roaming around and there are clearly trees and other vegetation growing I'm not sure why nobody is growing any food. This is just a really poorly thought out and lazy written film with an idiot main character who would of died on day one.

No Horror, No Comedy, Just Woke

Way over the top DEI representation and casting in non white and alphabet mafia characters. Multiple obese body positive female
castings. All the white males are either betas, drug dealers, sex offenders, murderers or just all around bad characters while the
DEI's are all portrayed as good people. The acting is mostly awful but there are a few decent performances. The writing is laughably
bad in particular to how operations and preceding's go on a cruise ship. It's like a really bad teen CW show from the 90's with some bad language thrown in to try to make it seem edgy. There is also no comedy and not horror just eye rolling garbage.

Watchable but Very Slow and Not Really Horror

Nothing really woke. The cast is almost all women but it makes sense within the story why the men are all gone. The acting is
good and the cinematography is excellent with some wonderful shots. Unfortunately that's about all it has going for it. While it does
an excellent job of showing the hard life of the period living in the dust bowl it does so at a such a dull slow pace. It's another case
of mis-marketing it as horror when it's not at all. There's some attempts at jump scares that don't even work and they shoot a lot of the
scenes in such a way with angels and ominous music to seem like it should be horror but what's happening in the scene doesn't match what they are trying to convey. There's also a lot of characters thinking they see something moving or hear something but nothing ever happens.

Minor wokeness

The casting seems to be somewhat DEI. Check that out for yourself. The bits of wokeness I detected would be the environmental alarmist based rising sea levels. There's a scene where the Golden Gate bridge is under water. Also, the idea that predators can coexist with their natural food supply is a Bambi kind of wokeness. I was hoping for some of the clever humor that Dreamworks is notable for. There's really not much there.

An Actual Decent Kevin Smith Movie??

Nothing woke. A bit different from modern Kevin smith movies. More like his earlier ones actually though a bit tamer in content. Not as
funny as some but I actually liked it better than I thought I would. It's a lighter toned down version of Smith and it actually works rather
well. I would say if you liked early Smith than give this one a shot.

Worst Main Character Ever

Lead female character is the typical modern feminist while every single male character around her is a pathetic cowardly beta.
This might be the most unlikable, rude, arrogant, nasty, aggressive character ever. By the 20 minute mark I hated her so much I was
hoping she would just die horribly. That's not what you want for your main character when you want people to root for her to survive.
Then there is the now common awful writing. Why would her father leave her in charge of the restaurant when he clearly knows w3hat an
unhinged idiot loser she is. But then again he's not too bright either. Why would you leave your dinner open all night with 2 employees
'just in case someone comes in'? The operating cost and employee salaries means you are losing money every single night. Then the sheriff
shows up in the middle on the night and finds out the kids terrorizer her are probably the same psychotic killers from a horrible murder
earlier in the night. So what does he do? Call it in immediately for backup and locks the building down until help gets there? Hell no
not this moron, he jumps up making a scene, grabs her and drags her outside in the wide open then stops halfway to the car and stands
there exposed so he can explain it too her. What idiot got paid to write this stupidity.

Much better than I expected from the DCU

The story is well-built, follows a consistent and easy to understand plot, and contains a few slight but definitely NOT overdominant woke elements. Character development for the Flash is decent, and all of the characters together make for a solid performance with good acting. Not all of them are very good 'stand alone' actors/performers for their own movie, but together they make a great team and 'league'. Relevant: I'm saying this all while trying to block out bias and perspectives based on previous films leading up to this one. While the special effects aren't the 'best', it certainly stands up as a decent movie IMHO.

Nothing woke. Another victim of poor writing. The acting is pretty good actually and the basic idea is solid. Unfortunatly the writing is full
of stupid characters doing stupid things and scenes that make no sense. As an example at the very beginning the serial killer dosen't bother to
check her pockets or take her smart watch off her. Not all smart watches require phones to work, why would her assume hers dose. When the car
slams into a tree she is in the backseat leaning over the front with no seatbelt on yet is somehow completely unhurt and still in the backseat
after the crash. When she is limping through the woods barely moving and he is right behind her yet allows her to get away and out of his line of sight. It doesn't get any better from there.

Another Franchise Misfire

The only thing a little woke is the leader of the anti godzilla military unit is a mousey little 90lb woman with speghatti arms whos idea
of a workout is stretching. This is one of the worst Godzillas of the era. Bad acting and an incomprehensible script that involves destroying Godzilla with a space weapon that shoots a black hole out. That stupidity speaks for itself. The special FX are anything but special. Both CG and miniatures look about as bad as they ever have. Nothing looks right against the backgrounds and movements and sizes are all wrong. The creatures look terrible and are sometimes just static nonmoving images against moving backgrounds. Best to pretend this one doesn't exist and move along...nothing to see here.