That Blaviken fight scene was fantastic and brutal.
The only thing I didn't like about this episode was that Bill died, meaning we didn't get to see him interact with Ellie, which was a wonderful part of the original game.
Aside from that, this episode is near faultless. It's the most original thing the show has done so far, by taking a side character from the game and fleshing out his backstory. It's deep, it's emotional, and it's a joy to watch.
Anyone complaining about wokeness and forced LGBT content has no clue what they're talking about. Bill and Frank were always a couple, even in the game. It's just that we didn't meet Frank in the game because he was already gone. Literally the only part of any of this episode that is not faithful to the source material is the fact that Bill died before Joel and Ellie got there.
Holy fuck. I have goosebumps. Might be the best episode of TV this year. Fucking amazing. Honestly, I can't blame Tom for what he did, he's taken so much shit from everyone, including his own wife.
I felt so many things watching this. It's stunning, it's twisted, it's weird, it's hot. One thing's for sure, it'll be on my mind for quite some time.
Absolutely fantastic. A well-executed original idea, packed with brilliant performances, impactful suspense, and many absurd laugh-out-loud moments.
Really great performances, but the movie is pretty messy. It genuinely felt like I was watching a movie trailer that was almost 3 hours long.
This was a huge step down from the previous film. I thought the first act was straight-up bad and not at all enjoyable. The COVID mentions felt dated and overly forced, and this film only just came out. That doesn't bode well for how this film will age. However, once the film gets going it gets better and is enjoyable, and they drop the COVID stuff, which in turn, actually makes the COVID mentions at the beginning feel even worse and more pointless than they had felt initially.
I thought that the plot felt far more simple and extremely predictable compared to the first film. I also thought that the characters (aside from Blanc), were largely much worse - both in writing, and performances given by the cast.
Daniel Craig and Benoit Blanc is just as good as he was in the first film, and he absolutely steals the show every time he's on screen. I also found Janelle Monáe as both Andi and Helen to be decent. Edward Norton's billionaire character, Miles Bron, was a mixed bag, and although he started out quite interesting with some potential, I found his character to inevitably be overly shallow and poorly written.
As far as the rest of the cast went? It wasn't so good. Most of them, such as Whiskey, were simply bland and forgettable. But others were downright awful characters that were overly shallow and just plain annoying. Kate Hudson's 'Birdie' was probably the worst offender here, and I found that her character lowered the quality of every scene she appeared in.
I realise that this review has been largely negative, but what I will say is that Glass Onion is still a mostly fun and entertaining experience for the majority of its runtime. I had a lot of fun watching it (aside from the first twenty minutes or so), and I don't regret it at all. I'd recommend watching it if you enjoyed the original film, but I just don't think it's anywhere close to being anything great like its predecessor was.
What is the point in these ships even having weapons systems? The star destroyer couldn't even shoot a super basic defenceless ship out of the sky! It has been utterly infuriating watching the action sequences in this show.
"I will do what I must" made me cringe. It was like bad fan fiction. The fight wasn't great, though it was definitely better than the fight back in episode 3 of the show.
Reva might just be the most pathetic force user of all time. How the hell did a couple of random farmers hold their own against her? Again, the action in this show has been consistently dreadful - just straight-up bad decisions by the writing team, and laughably poor choreography. Also, she literally just took a lightsaber to the gut hours ago and was left for dead, yet now she suddenly appears absolutely fine walking around on Tattoine? WHAT IS THIS SHOW?
Glad we got the Qui-Gon cameo at the end though.
The scariest part of this movie was when that woman said "Everything's better swimming in ketchup."
Wildly inconsistent and disappointing. The first episode is full of intrigue and makes you think this is going to be a dark, mature fantasy drama, only for it to then unravel into what could feasibly be mistaken for a teen Disney movie by the end. Episodes 5 and 6 are very good - wonderful and unique storytelling! They needed to focus more on that sort of stuff than the rest of the mundane, often boring and juvenile plotlines from other episodes.
I will tune into season 2, but if it hasn't improved after the first couple of episodes I will drop it. Being VERY generous giving this a 6/10. If it wasn't for episodes 1, 5, and 6, it would be an easy 4/10.
Wasn't a fan of this movie. I'm getting a bit tired of Ryan Reynolds playing the same character in every movie. It worked for Deadpool, but it's growing old watching him act that same way in every movie since. The humour in this movie was mostly a miss for me, though I do admit there were a few moments that drew a chuckle from me. The premise of the movie drew me in, but I don't think it was executed very well. It ended up just being pretty bland and generic, with lots of inconsistencies and things that made no sense. It was as if the people behind the writing had no idea how MMOs work. The cameos from the famous YouTube and Twitch streamers felt a bit cheap too, as if they were just trying to cash in and appeal more to a certain demographic.
Not a horrible movie by any means. But certainly not one that I would recommend either.
Horses are just men extenders.
A truly awful finale to a mostly decent season. Words cannot explain how much I despised this episode. It's the episode that deviates most from the source material, and also the one with the worst action and writing. Voleth Meir was a stupid character, and she shouldn't have had such a presence in the finale. Most of this episode was a stupid CG fight with a bunch of dumb monsters while Ciri just stands there staring at Geralt. Not enjoyable to watch, and The Wild Hunt's appearance was awful and felt really badly done.
And then we get to the grand reveal... holy fuck that was AWFUL. I'm not even gonna get started on this - they have dumbed down this Emhyr stuff so badly. I'm so mad about it. The biggest reveal of the books, and they completely and utterly butchered it and his character in a single line to end the season.
I think I must have missed the announcement that there's gonna be one more season after this. I was under the impression that this was the final season, and the super long episodes made me convinced of that even more. I could have sworn I had read that this was supposed to be the end. I watched this entire season thinking the show was coming to an end, and now I've just watched this 2.5 hour long episode thinking it was a series finale, and honestly, I was left feeling very underwhelmed at it. I was thinking "Why haven't they actually wrapped anything up?" then I come on here and read comments to find that there's actually still one more season to go. I guess I'm kinda happy that they're gonna do another season, since that means they'll actually wrap some of this stuff up. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish this was the last season.
A good final episode, but really hard to take the fight with Ultron seriously. He had all the stones but didn't even really use them? He literally has the power to just stop/reverse time. He's an insanely smart AI, yet somehow he doesn't even think to create some sort of timeloop like Strange has in the past? That's literally just one of the stones, he had all of them! Seems really absurd that this team were able to do anything at all to Ultron, especially considering that the Watcher couldn't even beat him.
That dude's reaction to his dick exploding seemed severely understated.
That scene with the mages all bound and then Tissaia freeing them was utterly awful. One of the worst fight/battle sequences this show has done. Episode 5 had built up some great momentum leading into this episode, but the opening sequences utterly botched the landing and killed the momentum episode 5 had built.
The fight between the mages and the Scoia'tael was pretty bad too.
Geralt killed Rience? What the actual fuck. This ruins what is arguably Ciri's most badass moment in the entire series from the final book. Great job, Netflix! The setup of the moment where Geralt killed him was awful too. The action is honestly so bad, and the writing is so chaotic and weak. Total botched landing of any setup from the first 5 episodes of the season.
Ciri telling Yen to go to Tissaia is an awful writing choice. This is not a conversation Ciri would be having with Yennefer. They are literally like weird sisters in this show, yet they are still trying to push Yen as a mother figure. "I love you, my daughter." Like what? There is no way that anyone watching this show can actually see this version of Yennefer as a mother to Ciri. Their dynamic is all wrong.
The way they set up Ciri vs Cahir was bad too. It felt way too forced. Geralt would literally never let Ciri put herself in danger fighting Cahir alone like that. And what the hell? He just runs off to go fight the Scoia'tael after everything that happened in this episode up until that point? The writing here is next-level dumb. I'm 30 minutes in as I write this, and this honestly might be the worst episode the show has done so far.
Dear Netflix, I will never forgive you for giving us such a lacklustre Geralt vs Vilgefortz fight. It wasn't bad like the rest of the action in this episode, but it could have been so much more.
This episode aggravated me to no end. Easily one of the worst the show has put out.
That 'Dear Friend' stuff was a spit in the face. I'd have rathered they just never included it.
10 minutes into the first episode, and the thing that strikes me most is just how off the tone of this show is compared to the source material. It has been a while since I saw season 2, but it feels like the tone is veering further and further into the YA sort of genre with every season. Even the action feels off to me. All the weird slow-motion effects and style to it... it just doesn't feel like I think The Witcher should feel. It seems entertaining enough, I guess, but it's just so frustrating and depressing to think how good this stuff could have been if they just kept the vision of the books rather than putting so many distant filters over it.
I'm also really struggling with Yen at the moment. I knew Anya was kind of too young already and not an imposing enough presence in previous seasons. But this is even more apparent as she's spending time with Ciri and trying to teach her magic. She simply isn't Geralt's equivalent in any way in this show. Henry has such gravitas and presence on screen, but Anya is just kinda... there. She looks like Ciri's sister, and it's not at all believable that she could ever be a mother figure to her. She's supposed to be a big presence - someone who Ciri looks up to and respects, not some young girl who is basically on her level. This isn't a knock against Anya (I think she's a great actress), it's just maybe a bit of a miscast. It probably wouldn't be bad if Ciri was younger and more accurate to how old she should look at this point. But as of now, Ciri looks the same age, if not older than she should at the end of the final Witcher book. Quite concerning considering how early on in the story we are.
Dijkstra and Philippa are kinda weird, and I definitely wouldn't say they were true to the source. But I don't actually mind them. I'll reserve judgement until I see more of them.
The scene in the maze missed the mark entirely for me. I'm really not enjoying any of the action thus far. I feel like the action peaked in the very first episode of season 1, and it has been all downhill ever since.
Although the music in the show has always been mostly pretty good, I think they use way too much of it. Every scene, every piece of action, everything just seems to be undercut with sudden dramatic music.
The Jaskier/Radovid stuff is truly abhorrent. Feels so wrong and out of place. It makes no sense.
Almost everything that comes out of anyone other than Geralt's mouth just sounds so generic, bland, and badly written. Ciri's speech at Sheaerrawedd felt so out of place, and the fight right after wasn't good. All the Rience stuff just makes me cringe. None of it even makes any sense. It's like they keep trying to have these big dramatic moments, but they just don't work because they haven't been earned. We're just jumping from big moment to big moment with subpar and rushed setups in between them. This would be less of an issue if they had actually just stuck to the books last season rather than having 95% of it be literal fanfiction. Instead, they've spent this entire first episode condensing all the big moments from Blood of Elves into 60 minutes. They literally had 8 episodes last season to fit this stuff in, but instead, the showrunner kept giving interviews about how "Blood of Elves doesn't have much content to adapt." Yeah, okay. If that's the case, why are you rushing and struggling to do it well or coherently in a single episode at the start of the next season? It's so frustrating.
Overall, this episode wasn't good. As an adaption of the source material? It'd be lucky to get a 2 or 3 out of 10. As a standalone episode of TV that is unrelated to The Witcher IP? A 5/10 is probably more than generous.
Very disappointing ending to the season. There were only maybe one or two good episodes this season. The rest were a mess.
I find it really tough to rate this show. The majority of it, is just pretty meh/fair (5-6/10). But there are a lot of exceptional highs. Lots of arcs well deserving of high 8-10/10 ratings. However, as well as the highs, there are also many lows. For me, the show was just very inconsistent in terms of how captivating it was. There were times where I had to sludge through 4 episodes in a row that were filled with corny dialogue and boring plotlines, and that's without me even mentioning Jar Jar or Padme episodes. But there were other times where I was on the edge of my seat for a 4 episode arc.
In the end, I have to settle with a good score of 7/10. If I were to take an average of all my ratings throughout the show, it's probably more like a 6/10. But as a Star Wars fan who was very much satisfied with the good arcs, I bump that 6 up to a 7.
The entire Rose plot has been straight-up bad. This season, every scene with Rose, Unity, or The Corinthian has been bad. The characters are shallow and poorly written, the tone feels completely off when they're around, and the acting isn't great either. This has been a poor finale to end a wildly inconsistent and disappointing season of television.
Very disappointing episode. Anyone saying it’s the best episode of this show is just caught up in the hype.
Visually, this episode was fantastic. And as a stand-alone episode, it was very good. But when you take this as an episode of Game of Thrones and think about everything that led to this, it’s undeniably disappointing.
Barely anyone died. Most of the characters had super thick plot armour. Lots of plot holes. Anti-climactic ending. I don’t mind that Arya killed the Night King. I also don’t mind how it happened. But for it to happen so soon... the army of the dead have been hyped up since season 1 as the true enemy, and we were told that they were the most dangerous army in the show. Yet all they accomplished was the deaths of a few side characters. It’s pathetic compared to the feats of other characters and armies in past seasons. The Night King should have taken Winterfell and killed at least a few main characters. The survivors should have them retreated somewhere and then beat the Night King in a later episode. The Night King and the army of the dead did not come across as very threatening by the end of this episode. They were unable to kill any main characters, and they were defeated in the first proper battle they took part in.
Very disappointing. My rating is only as high as it is because of the great visuals and the value of the episode as a stand-alone piece of television.
The problem with this show is that anytime something eventful happens, it doesn't really feel that impactful. How many times can we see criminals escape from the GCPD? How many times can characters be shot only to be fine. How many times can characters be killed or thought to be dead, only to then come back? The first season of this show was so good because everything was just happening for the first time. But by the time we were half way through season 2, we had already seen so many characters escape death countless times and the GCPD be taken over multiple times too.
I really like this show, but at the same time I despise it. There are lots of good little pieces, but nothing works out well overall. So much of it is just laughable. The last few epsidodes have been a bit better than anything since season 1/2, but I'm not confident it will continue into season 5.
I just hope season 5 can go back to its roots and be better.
Another good episode, but I must admit that I was kinda disappointed by it as a season finale. It ended well, but the episode felt a bit off. It felt as though every single character just had a sudden change of heart, as though we had missed an entire episode of development. Obviously we knew certain characters were headed a certain way, but they just seemed to suddenly jump from say 60% of the way that they progressed through the last 7 episodes, to 100% just in this one. It felt kinda weird how Homelander just suddenly showed up and got Ryan too - it came out of nowhere. It was still a good episode, but I thought it felt a bit rushed.
Also kinda disappointed that we're kinda just back where we started at the beginning of the season, with no real way to take down Homelander. I was expecting Soldier Boy to take Homelander's powers and then we'd get to see a new side to Homelander next season since he'd be weak and dealing with having no powers. Instead, it seems we're going to get a lot of focus on Ryan and Homelander together - which I do like. I had also thought that maybe all of The Boys would end up with powers by the end of the season, but that didn't happen either (not that that's a bad thing).
Anyway, I thought this was a good episode, but an ever so slightly disappointing end to a fantastic season of TV. Can't wait for season 4.
A brilliant final entry to this series of films. Fun and engaging throughout. The first two films were both very good in my opinion, and this one is basically more of the same. The emotional beats with both Quill and also with Rocket were very well done. If you ignore the nostalgia-fest that was Spider-Man: No Way Home, then this is quite easily the best MCU film since Endgame, and maybe the only one I've genuinely enjoyed from start to finish. On the subject of comedy being inserted at the right times and hitting the mark: other writers and directors could take many notes here (looking at you, Thor: Love and Thunder).
Connor's speech was amazing LOL
This show is entertaining but it's a mess lol
