This should be episode 2...
OK so i watched it, despite Anthony Mackie, because I wanted something light and fun, but I didn't have anymore expectation than a Fast & Furious in a Mad Max setting... Oh boy was I wrong!
What I got was Bounty Killers mixed with Blood Drive! (if you don't know that movie and series and you like Twisted Metal, run watch them!)
And that is good enough to be noted, this is the very first role were i found Anthony Mackie not to be a very bad actor (Marvel, Pain & Gain) or totally forgettable (Altered Carbon, Black Mirror).
Also, good surprise to see Stephanie Beatriz there, I didn't expect to see her there, but I couldn't think of anyone else to play her role.
PS: I knew I recognized Sweet Tooth's voice, but I could figure which actor had that voice and physics, makes more sens now.
It's fun and fresh just like season 1, really enjoyed it, but why did they have to make ghosts real? isn't the whole point of Scooby Doo to show that supernatural doesn't exist?
Don't expect to see or hear about the "Future" until 1h into the movie...
That just bad... Not even bad enough to be good, just bad acting bad story, bad costumes... Bad everything.
Interesting setup, bad execution...
The jokes fall often flat. it really just look like a "Inside Job" on a budget.
It's not terribly bad, you can see they are trying to do something, but that just doesn't work...
Nothing to take from this, plain bad. Bad acting, bad stories, bad humor...
I really can't point anything good on that show, even the cameos from the original cast aren't well written, are unfunny and felt so off...
I had very little hope for this, but they lower the bar even more. I'm actually surprised they green-lighted a second season, the first one was terrible, you couldn't get attached to the characters, second season doesn't change a thing, unfunny stories, exaggerated acting, unlikable characters...
The latest victim of the "it's not written Marvel at the start" bashing spree...
This movie is actually really better than any DCEU or specially MCU movies we had in the few last years, yet, it failed spectacularly.
It's far from perfect, sure, but it's all it promised to be: fun, dynamic, and a worthy sequel for the first one.
My main criticism is that some jokes or funny moments are a bit long and keep and going, losing their momentum (I'm thinking of the letter moment, it's funny, we get that Steve writes everything down no need to keep on going, and we actually guessed that they didn't proofread it, so why waste time telling it?)
Starts quite good, but quickly becomes boring.
If you have to give it a try, don't waste your time with season 2...
I was expecting Bad, I got Worse...
This movie is a random succession of clichés, bad acting and sexist "jokes", the story is a total mess.
But you get to see boobies...
Despite the hate wave, I actually like this!
It's far from perfect, but it's good fun and imaginative.
What a terrible show!
The acting is out there, somewhere... but not in here!
Emily is just a stupid, terrible, spoiled brat who always does what she wants with no regards to others.
The totally false image it gives from Paris, Parisian people and French people in general is nothing but stereotypes from someone who's never set foot in France...
And the so called story is just plain boring and not really cleverly done and not an once credible.
Don't waste your time in here.
Even worst than the first one!
The acting is very very bad, the story is just okay, the bad guy is just a bad guy, with no real motive but to kill all the good guys...
It's probably a good movie for kids, but I really doubt any adult would enjoy this.
When it was supposed to be a parody of Star Trek, it failed miserably at that job, the show being mildly funny at best.
But it quickly became a watered down copy of its mentor.
Special shout-out to Doctor Finn, the most annoying character I've seen in a long time on a TV show. She's supposed to be a psychologist but she's probable the only one who needs to see a shrink... And I have the feeling that many (way too many) episodes are focused on her and her kids...
The first season are quite passable, but the other seasons became more intense.
The third season consists in 5 episodes, not 10...
I was actually really happily surprised.
I put it in my watchlist because it could be fun as a background when I'm busy, but I actually stopped what I was doing to keep all my attention to the movie.
It was cute, funny, and totally unexpected (Wolf Submarine??), I also like the satyr of the real world.
I totally recommend for kids, but also for adults to watch with them.
Runtime is 28 minutes, not 90 minutes.
An unoriginal story served with incredibly bad acting, and the movie did not age well at all on top of that.
I wanted to watch this after seeing the Netflix' reboot/remake/sequel, to maybe know more about the backstories and mythology. This was a big waste of time. This is a basic cop movie with no substance whatsoever. The only thing that could differentiate this from any other cop B movie is the fact that it is lead to the Afro-American community.
No humor, no good action scene, forgetful characters, no good acting (from any actor) and again, flat story.
Just amazing!
I am absolutely not a fan of anime, quite the opposite, but I was fooled, thinking this was a western animation mocking the Japanese anime while it is in fact quite the opposite.
It's trash, it's vulgar, it funny and it's sexy, it's ... everything in love in a show!
Some episode are quite boring, usually the ones not focusing on Panty & Stockings but those are not the norm, thankfully.
While this show could have ended quietly and remain in peace among the other short-lived TV series we all miss, the mid-credits scene of the last episode introduces a never realized season 2 via one of the biggest and most unexpected plottwist-cliffhanger I've seen on TV. And now I NEED to know what happens next!
Pleeeeeaaase release a new season!
Wow! That was intense!
Definitely one of the best animated Justice League/Justice League Dark movies so far!
I was surprised by the quality of the first one, where is expected a mediocre movie I got a respectable motion picture for the genre and the time, but this one, oh my god, even worse than what I expected the original one to be.
Except in some rare precious moments, the acting is terrible, very very bad, it's like the actors could not imagine themselves in the jungle with huge snake around them...
While their explanation about the size of the anacondas is OK, the concept of the flower blooming every 7 years doesn't make sense. If the orchid actually blooms every 7 years, they would make seeds which would probably start their cycle with one or more years of delay...
Plus they said they just discovered a sample of the flower at the start od the movie, but they knows exactly with no place for doubt when the flower is gone...
In a word, weak, easy plot, and no emotion.
It will premiere on DC Universe, and only be on The CW on the next day ;)
Please please please, tell me we finally won't see Iris anymore!
And definitive break-up plus the mirror imploding would be the best thing that could happen to the show right now.
The concept is amazing, this series could have been the best current sci-fi series (excluding space operas like The Expanse or Other Life), but they didn't think it through. It is full of plot holes, inconsistencies, and other minor annoyances that prevents you to truly love the show.
The concept of sleeves permits to change the main actor between seasons while keeping the continuity of the story, just like Doctor Who does for 60 years now, but unlike the Doctor, changing sleeves is not supposed to change your personality, so why, in the second season, Anthony Mackie does not incarnate Kovacs the same way Joel Kinnaman did in the first season?
It feels like an american remake of Ad Vitam: same idea about immortality and eternal life, with more action, very good CGI, but without the thrilling, convincing story and the amazing actors.
I would only recommend it to hardcore fans of sci-fi and futuristic worlds, but to noone else.
The animation style is amazingly done, and... that's all.
Poor story, very predictable, a lot of the fight scenes are mostly surrealistic, like most anime, and therefore don't get you into the feeling of danger the characters might be in... Also, you'll have to be hardcore fan of Yakuzas and their honor code and method to enjoy this.
On another point, Why bring back Kovacs? This was a perfect occasion to expend the universe of Altered Carbon out of a single character and some sidekicks coming and going. Humanity colonized planets, there are probably hundreds of billions of humans, why only focusing on one? It makes sense in the series, as a continuity, but in an animated movie advertised as "from the world of Altered Carbon", you'd expect to find a story in the same universe, not a somehow sequel/prequel with the same main character than the original series, but without any link, repercussion or evolution between the two.
The concept was amazing but very poorly developed, written and directed. Beside the astonishing animation, nothing to see here.
After reading the comments on this website and other, I didn't expect anything but an empty movie à la Marvel, with no content, half a story but good SFX to make us swallow the pill, but I was actually surprised, in a good way.
That might not be the best MIB movie, but I would place it in third position, as I found it better in many ways than MIB3.
If I had to state the number one reason this movie flopped, I'd probably blame the actors, particularly Tessa Thompson. While her character was inconsistent: borderline annoying at the start of the movie with her way-too-much-excited attitude to not-even-surprised-of-alien-stuff-everywhere fro the half of the movie, far from Will Smith's Agent L discovering the system on screen with us, it feel that Agent M was recruited on screen, acquired experience somehow and came back finishing the movie as a more mature agent... Plus she didn't really fit there, with no chemistry with the rest of the cast, it's more of a movie following two agents (and Pawny) than a duo.
Chris Hemsworth on the other way is a very good half of a duo, unfortunately there's no real second half, and he, or more likely his character can not (and should not) compensate that void alone.
Liam Neeson is probably the best pick for an experienced agent now head of a MIB branch, and play that role to the perfection
even though his over protective behavior toward agent H makes him suspicious early on in the movie .
The movie in itself is not as funny as the 2 first iterations, but has its moments, I can not say jokes fall flat because I did not notice a lot of them and the ones I noticed did at the very least make me smile, so it is not a failed attempt of comedy, but more likely a deliberate choice to bet on well... not humor at least.
The story was not half bad, but was not brand new, the concept of alien(s) coming on earth carrying an object/weapon incredibly powerful but searched but a destructive alien race sounds a lot like the first movies, ok, there are a few twists, but it does not make it original enough to make this movie memorable, compared to MIB or MIB2.
I think the accent was put on blowing our mind with alien and advanced tech but too much it too much. When there is no reason , no purpose and makes no sense, why include it?
First a teleoperator can track an alien spaceship with a simple laptop while at work despite the incredible MIB tech, they can't fake an asteroid trajectory or erase it from an basic internet website?
Then, the New York subway transforming in a kind of overboosted hyperloop. The idea i actually really cool, but why in the hell did they need to include a physical transformation of the old looking classic metro train into a super advanced one while in both station aliens are roaming around hence the total absence of a need for camouflage. To be noted than in London, the train stay hi-tech...
Next, in the first fight scene against the twins, just outside the club, the car is filled with weapons, litteraly every single part of the car is a weapon cache, even the side mirrors or the exhaust pipe. And if you try to put it all together, you will quickly really, that it i not technically possible, unless the MIB cars would be secretly TARDIS?
Again with the cars, they can obviously transform, to fly, overdrive or any other function, as a classic MIB car should do, but they push the transformation almost to a Transformers level, in the last scene, it takes almost 10 seconds for the car to change into fly mode, while in the original movies, a reactor got out of the boot and that was enough, they here felt the need to make the whole trunk disappear, move, change shape to, at the end, give us a badass planecar! No just kidding, the result looks more like a frail paper plane than anything else.
I will not most certainly nor beg for a sequel, but I would not spit on it either. I only wish I could see more Agent H and less Agent M in the future.
Idea for a future movie: a bridge between the "real" MIB movies and MIB International where Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and Agent T (High T, Liam Neeson) fought together as field agent a few years/decades back, with, why not, young Agents L and H making a cameo...
And of course, last but not least, I loved Pawny, he's cute, fun, badass and put a lot a fresh air in the movie. He's probably the one who made me laugh the most, from his very first appearance, i wanted to see him more, and I still do!
In the end, I enjoyed watching this movie, I had some fun, it was a occasion to dive back into one of my favorite sci-fi franchises. The movie was not really freshly original, nor the actors fitting in, but I can not qualify this movie as a bad movie, it an OK movie, tasteless compared to the rest of the franchise but an interesting entry for the younger generation who might not have been there in 1997 to watch Agent L and Agent K making there debut on the big screen.
I give it a 6.5, and just because of Pawny, I'll round it up.
OK, so I didn't (re)watch the first movie since its release, but I think this one of the very rare sequels that live up to their previous iterations.
It was funny, badass and sometimes suspenseful, just like the original.
Nothing to say except when is the third one planned for?
Tasteless remake of a once good movie.
Rewriting the timeline just to offer a "different" future ... where the only difference is the name of the AI wiping humanity, from the iconic Skynet to an unknown Legion...
And the movie lacks in something very important, some might call it the backbone of every movie: a story.
You litterally just see people running from a new and improved and obviously totally invincible Terminator for the whole movie, nothing else beside one or two flashback to the future which are kind of useless...
Linda Hamilton is a total badass... until she takes off her glasses, and magically become an old, tired and annoyed woman. Schwarzie is there... to remind us it is a sequel and not a pure reboot, i guess.
The movie remains watchable and somehow enjoyable if you're very nostalgic or if you never saw T2: Judgment Day.
I had good expectations, and was quite well disappointed.
The music as well as the directing are quite good, and very suiting the movie, but very repetitive and end up annoying by the last third of the movie.
Many aspects of the movie feel more out of a video game than a movie, like the fights, especially the last one, the bad guy physically looks like an end boss and the final fight as well...
I also didn't like the story, it's a classical poor boy has a destiny he doesn't know about, blablabla, but the part I really didnt like was the magic side of it, the 150m high elephants and else...
Not half bad!
This show has obvious inspiration from the original Death Race and other 80's post-apocalyptic and gore movies, and happily plays with it, not trying to be better than them, only offering a fresh view of this retro genre, à la Bounty Killer.
Don't expect amazing acting (although Colin Cunningham as Julian Slink plays his character amazingly) or a compelling story, but It is somehow catching and badass.
The second part of the show, which is much less focused on the race, unfortunately feels a bit slower, but the end of the season correct slightly this problem, and most of all, while there is no real clean ending to the season, the last episode doesn't really call for a season 2 which doesn't leave me with frustration after the cancellation of the show.
If you like the Borderlands or Mad Max universes, you will definitely enjoy that show!
