Another unneeded sequel ruining a good name. This is just an attempt to keep these movies going for the gen z crowd. There are 3 new young characters introduced to replace the originals. 1 black male, 1 white male and 1 Spanish mixed half n half female. So DEI. They are annoying and unlikable. Everything they do is obvious and unrealistic, they aren't sneaky and stealthy. All the tricks are CG this time and look bad and take you right out of any plausibility they originals had. Then there's the woke. The first scene has the gen z 3 as I will call them steeling from 3 white male crypto bros. The villain is a ridiculous nasty girlboss sounded by beta males. Her accent and performance are hilariously bad. Lots of woke social justice comments thrown around throughout the movie. The overall theme here is the gen z 3 are better than the originals. The originals basically stand around the entire movie while they do everything and think of everything. This is a staple of woke replacement. Introduce new amazing character that you prop up while dragging down the originals by making them stupid and unneeded. I would bet they are planning another one with only the new characters. The villains family history is those pesky white supremacist Nazis again. They just had to have a scene with the midget 5 ft. 90lb female beating up and evading 3 large male police officers in an enclosed room. I made it through the entire thing but it is not a good movie. Can't really recommend this one.


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The big reveal is the new DEI black kid is the brother of the white Nazi descendant female. Turns out her Nazi father was banging the black housemaid and had a kid and she thought she killed them. Yes really. Also DEI brother is the genius mastermind who set the entire heist and revenge plan up. Now that he has his birthright back he's giving up the diamond and all assets and giving everything to the South African communities. Wow.

I originally read the book back when it came out so it's been a while but from what I can remember this is incredibly close to the book. Great acting and writing, the FX are excellent and the humor is great. The book is fairly big and this sometimes feels a little condensed but at 2.5 hours it's already pretty long. Despite the runtime it never gets boring. There seems to be a divide here on whether or not it's woke so here's my response to some of the complaints. There is no climate change ever mentioned once anywhere in the movie. It is an invasive alien organism destroying the sun. That's it. The diversity in the panel is because it's a global initiative, this is not an America saving the world. This is on a global scale with many governments. Of course there will be
diversity, why would there not. The female lead is not a girlboss in any way. She's quirky and awkward, not nasty, vile, aggressive or violent. Referring to him by Grace. It's literally his last name, many people call each other by their last name. It's not unusual. The alien species is a non humanoid species that looks rock like. Gender is never once brought up. When asking about the mates name using 'their' one single time in this case is the same as saying he/she when asking someone their pets name or gender. If gender was brought up then I would agree it's woke. Adrian is male, Adrienne is female. The name is dual sex the same as
Nicky/Nikki or Danny/Dani or Terry/Teri. The only woke thing I saw was the black 'helper' Carl. He is not in the books and was added for the movie. This is clearly a DEI character put there for comedy and to help the white male lead. Not necessary and a woke point. I recommend both reading the book and watching the movie, they are both great.

Based on a true story from 2009. It's watchable but some lazy bad writing hurts this one a lot. The acting is pretty good but the story takes some liberties with what actually happened. There is a weird scene where the head of the coast guard makes a speech detailing hypothermia right after getting the call they are missing and before ordering the search. It's very out of place unrealistic and jarring to the flow of the story. There is also some editing issues where scenes change between night and day at odd times making the depiction of days versus the number of hours they were out there make no sense. There is also inconsistencies with the storm, sometimes torrential rain and the next scene barely raining and not storm clouds. Speaking of the storm it is called a tropical
cyclone in a news report and many times radar is shown where a tropical cyclone or a hurricane/tropical storm is depicted. They even talk about the storm making landfall. This takes place in Feb in Florida, there are no tropical storms in the U.S. in Feb. This was a very strong storm pushed through by a cold front called a bomb cyclone but they
do not move like cyclones. It is a straight line front that moves downward. Most of the acting is pretty good and the storm fix look good as well. The only woke I saw was the overrepresentation of females in the Coast Guard. Only about 15 percent is female but they are everywhere here including not 1 but both search pilots. The mixed race couple is accurate to real life so not woke and the race comment at the beginning I initially rolled my eyes at turned out to be a joke between friends so wouldn't really call that woke. Overall watchable if you are interested in the story but probably a one time watch.

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.



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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.