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Keeps you stuck to your seat and in constant surveillance mode in case anything is going to show up in the background.


Liked the subtle "symbolism" 🎩 (if it was meant to be symbolism, of course) at the end.

A surprisingly solid animated Netflix movie. The acting is good the story is solid. The voice acting is well done. The humor is pretty good and works most of the time. There is a mix of silly childish humor and definitely some more adult jokes and innuendo that would probably go over most younger kids heads. It also may get a little dark for younger kids but it's not too bad. It kind of feels more like a 80's-90's animated movie than a modern one, just CG instead of hand drawn. I didn't see anything woke, there's no forced DEI and no rainbow mafia. All the characters both male and female have strengths and weaknesses. While the wife seems to be the only one working while the father is unemployed, he doesn't just sit around the house he's a musician and is shown working on his music. He seems to be a good father so he's not useless or dumb and is shown later to be rather strong and capable. I also saw complaints about the daughter being more put together and competent than the brother. She's said to be 12 and while I don't remember his age being stated he seems to be considerably younger. He just acts like a little kid, not dumb. He is shown in several scenes to be smart and in a couple of instance figures things out and saves his sister. Personally I didn't find it woke, I think sometimes if you look hard enough you will see woke when it's not really there.

Predictable, major crimes solved in single episode.

Dominant female character who can kick butt.
Forced story lines.
Bad guys are predominately greedy, insecure, white guys.

If you like Melissa McCarthy, you'll like this.

The Woke:
Girls kicking butt. Girl boss. Girl mastermind criminal.

The movie:
In short, this movie is a platform for Melissa's wit. She really is a funny lady. If you like her humor, you'll like this. Confession: I probably wouldn't have sat through the whole movie, but my wife is a serious fan of Melissa McCarthy. It's outlandish and silly.

Jason Statham plays a parody of himself. In my opinion, that's the best part of the movie.

It's Ryan Reynolds. It's witty and entertaining.

Woke:
There is a minor character who is a lesbian. The movie made it a point that, in the USSR, being a lesbian is a crime. She had to hide from KGB. It was a minor agenda of the movie to depict it as a violation of human rights.

The more significant Woke, in my opinion, is the apologetic view of Communism. Communist governments lie to their people. Our government lies to us. That doesn't make it the same thing. Communism is dangerous and has caused more human suffering than any form of government. In this movie, people living under communism are charitable and kind. That is used to convey the message that communism isn't such a bad thing.

The Movie:
Ryan Reynolds is a spy plane pilot who is shot down over Russia during the Cold War. He's fortunate enough to be found by a Russian man who is obsessed with USA culture. Together, they look for a way to the other side of the Iron Curtain. Ryan is constantly witty in the face of every situation in his usual way. It's an enjoyable movie. There's Deadpool level violence as you would expect.

As enjoyable as this is, I still contend that Communism is a dangerous threat that grows by seducing with deception.

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.

Woke feminist hatred of white men.

This show started with potential but clearly is pushing the man hating, gay/lesbian girl boss nonsense. Ted Lasso goes to England to coach a soccer team after his wife cheat on him with her therapist and "she" needs space??? It gets worse from there. Ted has panic attacks, is a simp, weak man who grovels at women's feet. All the white men are portrayed as either weak, or bullies. Old rich ex wife takes over the team and screws a black player 40 years younger. I guess when a women in power screws an employee it's ok??? They push the gay lesbian, the virtue signalling black guy and the drunk abusive white father. This show is what happens when women graduate from woke Universities with useless degrees and get hired because of DEI and the studio's bend the knee to the woke gay pride agenda. Total feminist white male hatred trash.

Tom Cruise did better acting here than Brad pitt. Brad pitt's acting was so weird, especially since he looks so weird without any beard/moustache. Both look weird without beards/moustaches, but Brad looks much weirder.
Claudia & Louis's relationship is VERY WEIRD. She calls him "my beloved," "love," that sort of thing. They rarely called each other "father" (adoptive) or "daughter." One time she almost kissed him. Hollywood is very DISTURBING.
This movie was probably made for a female audience, because many things just feel so weird about this movie. Some gay-ish moments, without actually doing anything gay.
Well, it was written by a female.

Group of 5 annoying social media twits consists of 2 white males, 1 white female, 1 purple haired Asian female and 1 black male. Checking some DEI boxes off. 1 of the white males is coupled up with the Asian female so you get the mixed race checked as well. No surprise the single white male is a thief and an asshole. The other white male is dumber than the females and a beta. The Asian female is a girlboss type. There is a scene that appears to set up a group of white males to show up later as villains. (I skipped ahead after giving up to check and yup they are)
The acting is bad and the dialogue is worse. The cg rats look awful and the scene is pointless anyway. If you watch this I hope you like cell phone social media p.o.v. with lots of stupid emoji's. Hotel is said to have been closed and abandoned sometime in the 80's yet the interior looks nothing like what you would expect from an 80's glam hotel. Everything is clean and there is no dust, debris, rot or decay anywhere that would be expected from a decades abandoned building. 40 minutes was enough to see this was going nowhere and I gave up.