All User Reviews

I won't say much about the movie itself as it's what you would expect. Bad over top acting, bad story, cheesy and corny as hell, but it's supposed to be. For the first 45 minutes or so it does a solid job of recreating the feel of the original with lots of little easter eggs thrown in.
Dinklage actually puts up a good performance as the lead. Then in the second half it takes a hard left turn into woke political propaganda and
never look back. There is a lot of DEI casting going on here including the heroic lead black female reporter. She makes a comment about humans
have already killed the planet. A white male reporter sarcastically asks if 'him' is the proper pronoun and the female reporter calls him classless.
There is a long scene of a group of white males called the nasty lads who we are told are political extremists take a restaurant full of minorities
hostage. They are angry about gender swapping the mascot and complaining about the estrogenic thinking of America. One of them does the ok symbol to a side shaved black female and asks if she's triggered. This is clearly meant to be the proud boys and 'right wing terrorists' in general. Despite all the DEI casting there is not one single minority killed in this movie. In fact the official death count is 19 males (all white) and only 2 females. To top it off the males are all killed very graphicly and violently while one female is electrocuted bloodlessly and the other disappears in a fireball. What could of been a decent homage to a terrible yet infamous 80's movie throws it all away for an agenda.

Typical blumhouse garbage. Bad acting, absolutely absurd nonsense writing with holes everywhere. Dei casting choices, female victims empowered to overcome the evil male's by the end. Pretty much every single male in this movie other than one is a bad person or creepy predator. The female lead is a victim of male domestic abuse who helps other women of male domestic abuse and is suspicious of every single male. The movie even sets it up with a weird pointless scene at the beginning where a meter reader peaks into a window at the female lead than knocks on the window just to tell her he's there to read the meter. Who does that? The flamboyant obviously gay water. Mixed race secondary background couple. It starts out sort of interesting
and just gets more and more ridiculous as it goes along. The entire plan of the villains is such over the top nonsense, and the male villains have
to be the most inept, incompetent 'professionals' ever.

War is a business.

Another thinly disguised genre movie that's really just there to push the woke agenda. It's pretty much impossible to review this without
spoilers so I will put that at the end. The acting is all over the place but generally not great with some terrible accents as well. The gore fX look fake and unimpressive. It's very slow moving and lite on the horror. This is really here just to push feminism in general but the rainbow mafia as well. Why are the hillbilly males stereotypical, dirty, dumb and unkempt. The female hillbillies are just normal people. Well mannered, well dressed, full makeup and hair and of course also badass. By the second half the whole thing just turns into a big lesbian gay statement against masculinity.


Spoilers....


The other family the closeted lesbian daughter and the suppressed by the father wife who don't really want to kill anymore. The father and
son are crazed killers and love it. The lesbian daughter just happens to stumble upon the lesbian hillbilly and make out. This is of course her
chance to reveal everything to her homophobic father and turn on the evil father and son, escape and go be her happy lesbian self.

I love this movie... and guitars

I had to give this one a tick of woke. It's actually a half-tick rounded up. Willie argues that Eugene would be "just one more white boy ripping off our music." Willie also gets called "mud-duck" by a white pimp in a small southern town. That's about it for the woke report.

The movie itself is based on the legend of Robert Johnson's deal with the devil at the crossroads. Willie is a harmonica player that spent his life in prison over a self-defense killing of a band member. Eugene is a privileged classical guitar prodigy who is obsessed with Robert Johnson. He believes Johnson had a song that never got recorded and Willie may be the last chance to find it. Eugene breaks Willie out of the hospital, and they go on the road. Eugene is looking for a lost song. Willie is looking for a way to back out of his deal with the devil.

The strength of this movie is the music. There's kind of a Devil Went Down to Georgia story at the end. It's a guitar contest between Eugene and the Devil's guitarist (Steve Vai). If you don't watch the movie, at least find the ending on YouTube. The contest is called "Cutting Heads."

Ralph Macchio learned to play guitar for this part. He didn't do the actual playing, but he developed enough skill that you wouldn't know it. Ry Cooder played most of the actual soundtrack. Vai, of course, played for real. It was awesome!

Another Norwegian monster movie. The acting is pretty bad and the FX look cheap. For some reason there is a lot of blurry out of focus background scenes that are distracting. The title Kraken shows up for about 30 seconds of bad CG screen time, the rest is all cheap looking tentacles and the first 45 minutes is pretty much all setup with nothing happening. The ending is hilariously bad and the whole movie is an environmentalist monster revenge movie on evil humans destroying the ecosystem and messing with nature. There is far too much DEI casting here for a Norwegian movie where the country is 94 percent white. The opening scenes has a white male and black male, the 3 teenagers' includes a black male and the lead is a mixed Iranian Norwegian female. Speaking of this is another movie all about the females, every group is focused on female leads with background male characters, the scrawny female police officer, the mixed Iranian smart scientist, the teenagers focus on the female of the group. The only one that has a male lead is the evil corporation harming the environment.

A lot of DEI overrepresentation in casting. Leads assistant is gay. As far as I can remember there were very few white males anywhere to be seen
here. At 2hrs and 7 minutes this an overly long slow moving bloated film that should of been cut significantly. Far too much time is spent trying to convince the audience this character is a famous pop superstar. Too many musical dance scenes with terrible songs and a lot of time spent on her going about her day. There is very little horror and a lot of angsty drama. How many times can you use the jump scare it's in her head and not real tactic before the scenes lose any possible affect they may of had. The lead who is pretty much on screen the entire time just isn't good enough an actor to carry the movie and despite what they want you to believe has all the likability and charisma of burnt toast. The FX are decent and there are a couple of creepy scenes but it seems like the
director is more interested in making some weird statement about celebrity and fame than an actual horror movie. The best scene in the entire movie is the opening 10 or so minutes. Where's the rest of that movie, that was far better than the entire rest of the film.

Ah shit! Here we go again...

Let's just agree from the start that the Scary Movie franchise was never high-brow cinema. It's not some super-developed, heavy narrative shit that inspires you to think deep thoughts. It's simple, dumb jokes that are already in everyone's heads, and the creators just put them on screen as parodies.
Making this stuff (comedy) isn't easy, but if you've got the budget for it, you should at least put in the time so your comedy actually lands and makes people laugh.

Anyway, in this case the movie tries to act like it's super politically incorrect, but most of it really isn't. It only has a few traces of that. The sketches poking fun at DEI casting and woke stuff have already been done to death in other movies and even on SNL.

I saw some comments from well-known anti-woke YouTubers saying the movie was trying to be an anti-woke comedy, making fun of that whole thing, but ended up doing exactly what it was trying to mock. In my case, I didn't really feel that. It does have a couple of genuinely funny moments. The problem is those are like 10% of the movie. The other 90% is just mediocre to straight-up boring. Some parts are so bad I honestly thought they were written by AI.

I think this franchise is dead. The Wayans brothers clearly have the talent to make good humor when they actually try, but this is just an easy cash grab. They’re milking a classic parody that should’ve never gone past three movies, and by keeping it going, they turned into exactly what they used to make fun of...

P.S.: ⚠SPOILER ALERT⚠
Ah! One of the biggest reasons I’m giving this movie such that “woke score” is because it starts with a fake little movie-within-a-movie where Teyana Taylor plays this super uninhibited, super powerful black woman that nothing can destroy. It could’ve been funny if they had gone completely the opposite way, but it’s clear they wanted to push her as this cliché, hypocritical icon of representation. That completely sets the opposite tone for the whole thing.

A different take, apparently

I agree with the points that most reviews on here make. I just consider it to be more incidental than agenda.

I've read all of Mick Herron's Slow Horse series. I really like the books. This show follows them rather closely.

The main character, Jackson Lamb, played by Oldman, is actually pure genius. He's rude, offensive, and not hygienic at all, but he always figures things out before anyone else and manipulates the outcome.

The mixed-race couple is just that. I don't see an agenda in it. If you consider that woke, so be it. If the story portrayed them as having to endure intolerance over it, I would call it woke.

I don't remember any LGBT...+++ being represented, much less any agenda.

The girl boss is present. The main one is the "Second Desk" of MI5. She's a politically conniving backstabber who gets put in her place by Lamb on a regular basis. He always gets the upper hand, in both the novels and the show.

Casting: I looked up the first season on IMDB. The top 12 cast consists of 9 men and 3 women. There is one Asian, one Black an 10 white. I don't see any DEI in that.

The main characters consist of 3 white males portrayed as competent. The most incompetent, bumbling idiot in the show is the Asian. The black lady is portrayed as competent. I don't see any agenda in that.

The fist season is about some punks wanting to behead a Muslim on camera. I can see that as being woke agenda. Some of the following storylines have Islamic terrorists attacking. It's kind of across the board on that issue.

The wokeness may be there, but I don't think it comes with an agenda.

Mild wokeness or none at all

I rated is as mildly woke. But, it may not be woke at all, depending on your taste.
It doesn't contain much woke politics. However, it's obvious there's a lot of DEI casting. Also, all the male White characters are somewhat bad or grey. While most of the non-White characters are good

Less than halfway through the first episode. Enough.

The protagonist was at a bar, talking to a tender who would set off anyone's gaydar. The next scene was them waking up together. If you can get through that, maybe there's a good show to be watched. I, myself, cannot.

This is nothing more than Disney anti-America propaganda trash aimed at teens. I only suffered through half of the first episode and couldn't
take any more. This is woke Gen Z nonsense and NOT national treasure. Casting a bunch of Gen Z DEI minority hires and a script that appears to have been written by A.I. using social media as a template this is an embarrassment. The dialog and acting is awful, the soundtrack is tiktok clips of modern pop rap slop. White people are bad or stupid. Pro illegal immigration and rampant feminism everywhere. The dialogue is loaded full of woke social justice comments and anti American sentiment. The lead character is an illegal immigrant trying to get a job with the FBI while using DACA. This is as bad as it gets and no surprise from Disney.