The opening battle scenes sets the tone for the bad writing immediately. A city built literally right into the ocean surf deep enough to allow
large ships to sail right up to the walls unimpeded. There are no double walls to repel invaders as was common. Massive breach towers raise up
magically out of nowhere on the ships. Next is the laughable baboon gladiator scene. The CG looks terrible and the baboons look like something out of a zombie movie. It's historically inaccurate and baboons are many time stronger than humans, there is no way a shackled person is going to win in a 1 on 1 against an angry baboon. It gets worse when the Rhino riding gladiator shows up. Then the utter nonsense that is the gladiator filled ships battling it out in a shark infested water filled arena. WTF! This is NOT a sequel but a shameless remake and a soulless copy of the original. Pascal is horribly miscast and just not good here. His character is annoyingly pathetic and spends most of the movie looking like he's about to cry. Mescal as the lead is boring and a far cry from the performance put op by Crowe. Washington again is miscast and appears to embrace the stupidity by comically hamming it up most of the time. Everything is so over the top ridiculous and unrealistic it might as well have been marketed as fantasy
and throw in some dragons to fight as well. Then there is the woke. DEI everywhere again. Black people were not common in Rome at the time. The Numidian people shown as very diverse with a lot of blacks were not in fact black. Macrinus was North African and not black so casting Washington for a historical character is race swapping. While Rome did incorporate North African people into their empire they were white not sub Saharan as shown here and there were not black people in the Senate. There are also females shown in full legionnaire outfit fighting along side the men. There were no female Legionnaires in Ancient Rome.
I've seen people mention female gladiators. I didn't see any but maybe I missed it somehow. Overall unless you are one of those people that like to slow down to stare at a car wreck I would not recommend wasting time on this.

Nasty girlboss all the men are terrified of and is smarter than all the men. Actually all the men seem to be idiots or overemotional, while the
females are smarter and rational. Flamboyantly gay flight attendant. The usual DEI casting choices. Tiny females holding there own against large
men is a theme here. The script thinks its clever and funny but the dialogue and jokes are just eye rolling. The entire plot is ridiculous and silly and the writing isn't much better. By the halfway point everything devolves into silly slapstick stupid comedy.



Spoilers......


The all powerful genius terrorist 'Ghost' is exactly what you would expect from a woke script and I guessed it within 2 seconds of screen time.
A tiny 5' 100lb 29 year old Indian female. She is again an annoying arrogant snarky unlikable character. No surprise she's not really bad and just a victim getting revenge while the real villains are the American white girlboss gov agent and her white male beta American gov agent.
These woke movies are so predictable.

I don't understand why they decided to make this 4 26 min episodes. Take out the beginning and end credits each one is only about 22 minutes, this should of just been a 90 minute movie. The voice acting is mostly good but there are a few weak performances. The animation on the character models and background looks great but the character movements is pretty bad. It just looks off, stilted and jerky. While I didn't see anything I would consider woke there is some very suspicious political propaganda implications here. This was released in 2021 toward the end of Covid and the basic story is some corrupt American government official working with a pharmaceutical lab develop a bioweapon than attempt to falsely frame China for developing and releasing it. Naturally China is innocent of everything and are good and noble and trying to set everything right. Other than the suspect storyline this is about on par as the rest of the animated RE movies but the heavy handed politics makes it a bit hard to watch.

Netflix just keeps lowering the bar. This is as bad as it gets. If you watch this as a comedy meant to make fun of the genre it might be worth it.
Modern language, dialog and all the social justice tropes. Another show that feels like bunch of pathetic woke cosplayers making a YouTube short except that would probably be better than this. Fight choreography that looks like they used the practice runs for the final scenes. The elf ears look like glued on Halloween leftovers from the dollar store, I mean they didn't even bother blending the skin tone in, you can see how fake they are. I hesitate to even call
what they are doing 'acting'. The CG is poorly done and looks cheap.
Stupid amount of DEI overrepresentation, badass scrawny tiny women beating up groups of men, rapey white men. Rampant feminism with women better then men and of course the rainbow mafia makes an appearance. Typical of the woke garbage Netflix puts out.

I watched the subtitled version and the translation was pretty bad making the dialogue seem terrible. I'm not sure if this is just the copy I saw or if it's all like this. Early on there is a weird scene with an American soldier who speaks English even though nobody else does. His acting is terrible, and he's a horrible violent man who tries to rape one of the females. This small female takes a beating yet somehow manages to kill him and she is told it's fine by the Korean male because he's
vermin. She's suddenly a professional killer and there is a montage of her overpowering and killing a much larger man. It then jumps forward to when she's an old woman but still taking on contracts. One minute she's stumbling around with hands shaking so bad she can't even write then the next scene she's running full speed through the woods. It portrays her as some badass that everyone's afraid of but she's old, frail and looks like she weighs 80lbs at best. It's like watching a Korean Geriatric feminist John Wick rip-off. As far as I can tell pretty much all the men are bad and violent. The action scenes are ok but the story and writing makes no sense and is impossible to understand. It jumps all over the place and after 30 minutes I couldn't take it anymore. If there is a better translation for this it may be more watchable but I still think it's not a good movie.

I don't know what that was but it sure as hell was NOT crisis on infinite earths. It's obvious the creators have either never read the original source material or just don't care. The story is pretty much unrecognizable and I will not even bother with the other 2 parts. Even if you know nothing of the originals and just want to watch it as a stand alone the story is disjointed and incomprehensible. The animation looks cheap and lazy and the voice acting and dialog is hit or miss. The only thing woke I saw was the race swapping of Iris West from white red head to black. This also allows them to check the all important mixed race couple. Given the main focus of this seems to be The Flash for some reason, almost to the point of it being just a Flash movie, that means the mixed race couple takes up a decent portion of the screen time.

After seeing the trailer and reviews I had to give this a shot. I normally like these types of movies, a throwback to the weirdness of some of the 80's and 90's films. It's watchable I guess but not that good either. It's one of those movies where they just make everything as weird as possible just for the sake of being weird. The acting is fine but the CG is very inconsistent, notable the creature FX are pretty bad. The story is barebones and makes little sense, actually the whole movie is kind of silly and the final 30-40 minutes falls all the way into over the top comedy. This was originally written as a single episode of the short failed amazing stories revival from 2020 and never filmed. The director then turned it into this movie. I would say it would of worked much better as a shorter episode of an anthology series than what this turned out to be. I don't know how this is getting woke free ratings either, the minority overrepresentation is pretty heavy everywhere you look. There's the token butch female assassin and then the Ugandan born black female FBI agent is hilariously cringe levels of DEI casting.

A generic western that hits all the usual clichés. The acting is all over the place with some good and some pretty poor. The dialogue feels like
it's way off for the time period and everyone sounds way to modern. There's also the strange choice of casting a bunch of non American actor who all seem to keep their native accents or do a poor English one making this feel like a badly made foreign film pretending to be set in the U.S. Shot on location in Montanan the scenery and cinematography are wonderful. The writing isn't too bad but there are some problems like characters who have a clear line of fire and the element of surprise and still miss shots, there's a character towards the end that makes a really obviously dumb decision for no reason. Brosnan in particular seems unbelievable in the physical stunts and fights with much younger actors given he's in his 70's. There's some woke mixed in and of course Jackson's character says he was wrongfully sold as a slave by a white man. Given the time period it's possible but the way it's told seems like a pointless addition that does nothing for the story. His character brings up his race several times. There's also the lone good Indian female oddly played by a German born actress of Peruvian/Swiss/German decent with a way out of place accent for an American Indian. Not sure what they were thinking with that casting. The movie's not terrible and somewhat watchable specifically if you like westerns but there are much better out there.

Mild spoiler..

The family group that's one of the villains consists of a bunch of brothers and 1 sister that they treat badly. Guess which one turns out to be good
and takes revenge on her brothers for overlooking her.

The only thing woke is the DEI casting. Only 4 characters in the movie, 2 white males, 1 Asian male and 1 black female. Basically the entire movie
is 4 friends stuck in an endless loop driving in a car talking. That's pretty much it. Definitely not fantasy/horror/sci-fi as marketed. The acting is
ok but nothing special and it's a well made movie. It wants to be much more clever than it actually is but overall it's kind of boring and in the end pretty pointless. I get that it's an allegory for graduating college and getting thrust into the real world and the meaning of life, but it's all still
boring. I would give it a 2.5 but am rounding down to 2.


Edit..
Spoilers...
The more I think about it I'm upping my woke score. Given that this is basically their journey through life after college, the first one to 'give up' pretty early on is one of the white males who does so alone. Then the 2nd white male and black female agree to stop and get out together, this could be seen as pairing up and 'living their life out together' in other worlds the mixed race couple. The one who goes on to the very end and never stops is the Asian male. I may be reading into something that's not there but it does seem a little suspicious.

A sort of throwback to 90's 2000's road trip comedies. Unfortunately it's just not funny. I made it 45 minutes and gave up without a single laugh. These types of movies are always over the top and pushing the boundaries of plausibility but this one is just ridiculous.
The acting isn't very good despite having some capable comedic actors. It's extremely cliche and boring, then there's the usual woke garbage.
Large DEI overrepresentation, all the male characters are imcompenat idiot and the females are smart and capable. The lead male is an over
the top annoying whinny beta cuck. It could be worse but it's still not very watchable.