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They draw you in and then throw you to the wolves.

My husband and I enjoyed this show for several seasons until suddenly. The main characters were out for a nice day in the country and a couple of kids came running out from the forest. They were followed by two "daddies" on a camping trip. We turned it off and will not be finishing the show.

Some DEI overrepresentation. All the villains are white. Most of the now typical feminism in movies now including girlbosses. Not surprisingly several of the females are terrible actors. White supremacists with Nazi tattoos try to kill Amondo. Some racist scenes and comments that would never happen if the roles were reversed. The story is cliche and unoriginal. The jokes are stale and not funny. Even though both actors are pushing 60 they act like they are still 30 except when the script needs them to suddenly act older. Marcus is incredibly annoying this time around. The action sequences are dull and just get more and more ridiculous and unrealistic as the movie goes on. The writing is typical of modern Hollywood stupidity. It's watchable if all your looking
for is braindead noise and you can get past the nonsense writing.

Unfinished

Despite its 2+ hours runtime, this movie feels unfinished and incomplete in many ways. It tries to summarize four years in the life of a wide ensemble cast, and ends up more a collection of disjointed vignettes and under-developed characters.
It also focuses on the wrong ones, in my opinion.

Still, it does a banging job of capturing the vibrancy and exuberance of young hopefuls, and to an extent the harshness awaiting them.

Strangely, the titular song is barely present in the movie (it was completed after the shooting I seem to remember), and its expression of youthful, devouring ambition is equally absent from the narrative.
Cara and her character Coco deserved better than they got here. Especially the scene with the pseudo-French 'cinematographer'; I get Parker's point, but it's awkwardly put.
On the other hand (end?), the closing piece, I Sing The Body Electric, weirdly never met with the success I think it deserves, with its brilliant stylistic syncretism.
I'm a sucker for a good literary reference, and it manages to evoke both Whitman and Bradbury, so, kudos.

Also, the young actors are no frauds. They obviously can sing, Cara chief among them, but they also play well enough to look totally legit on screen, at least for the instruments I've played myself enough to judge their performances.

The very diverse cast does not feel forced - it's New York after all - and to be honest, most black characters would now be decried by your garden-variety leftist (but not in my backyard) as 'acting white', 'bounties' or 'coconuts'. Or whatever they say this week.
Acting white, like being punctual and working hard toward a better future.
Diverse does not exclusively mean black here, but also Jewish, Italian or Puerto-Rican; background conversations come in a variety of languages, such as the bickering Russian pair, or one of the dance teachers' thick French accent.

All in all a good watch, that never feels lengthy but seems rushed in retrospect.

Had potential but woke had to ruin it.

Eddie Redmayne was great but what on earth were they thinking having an overweight, unlikeable, masculine black woman with a simp ex husband as the boss chick cop??? She was not in shape, litterally got her snitch killed and covered it up so no one was rooting for this toxic woman. Of course Hollywood in 2024 wouldn't be Hollywood unless they had the billionare philanthropist a homosexual married to another man. This is about as woke as you can b

Just a little woke

LGBT-wise, one of the gelflings has "two dads". This is reiterated a lot to make sure you don't miss it. Feminism-wise, all the gelfling tribes are led by females, and most of "hero" characters are holier than thou girlbosses. The bad guys are 90% male. Overall, the LGBT aspect wasn't as bad as most modern content, and the feminism is typical of the last 20 years.

Brilliant series!

There is some woke elements that crept in but overall an excellent series. Hoping that a movie ties up the loose ends. Fantastic performance by Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy. The entire cast were also great!

Main couple is a beta male who is a loser video game designer to the aggressive unlikable alpha female smart architect who talks down to him
and belittles him. I hated her within 15 min. Their neighbors are a white male and black female mixed race couple. The old white mane downstairs has a black granddaughter. In Germany mind you with an estimated 1.2 percent black population. The acting is passable at best but the writing is abysmal to anyone capable of logical thought. The couple attempts to drill through the barricade with a drill that is turning so slow you might as well be spinning it by hand yet manages to overheat and turn red hot. This same pathetic drill and a tiny hammer have no problem knocking a large hole big enough to crawl through in a solid brick firewall between apartments. The same apartments where a few minutes later after conveniently finding a sledgehammer in their neighbors apartment closet blow a hole through the floor like tissue paper that is clearly 1/2 inch thick plywood and that's it. 40 minutes was I could take of this no effort garbage, I no longer cared what the mystery with the barricade was.

Nothing woke. Excellent performance by Hopkins and good acting all around really. This isn't much of a horror movie but more of a psychological thriller. I wouldn't even call it a slasher. It's a slow burn look at a decent into madness. More creepy and disturbing than actually scary. The biggest issue I have is that we don't see or are told why he snaps or develops another personality. We see him fail on stage one time at the beginning and then he just has the dummy and goes from there. It's worth a watch for Hopkins probably not something to watch again.

Transgenders, girlboss, and forced diversity

Anything gets a "woke free" this days

Great show.

Very cool storyline. Bad ass dude that kicks ass saving people in danger with hot costars that have lesbo scene. Yea, maybe a bit woke but will let it slide...lol.

Great start to the franchise.

Interesting storyline that was fresh and generational fight scenes. First two movies were awesome. Third was still pretty good. The Fourth was total trash and clearly got poisoned by the feminist woke trash writers.

Great series with some epic twists. 300 meets Gladiator. First season finale one of the best all time.