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Have to say when they advertised this for Christmas Day I thought it would be a nice family film...

From the start it looked promising. I assume the backdrop of mill chimneys belching out smoke was a CGI from Temu.

Luckily we have a " strong independent woman" to look after her brother and sister. It was supposed to be 1944 apparently. But with 2022 views on society overriding the piece.

As for the US Troops and the unnecessary plunge into race etc... Why?

What we ended up with wasn't the "family sit down to watch together story" of the original but another poorly made indoctrination movie.

Potentially a good basis for a movie. But. So leaden.

The start of course was a little startling but then we leap forward decades. The drunk weary worn copper has been done to death but at least this time it's carried off a little better than the normal.

Nothing extraordinary except Val Kilmer's hair. Wow.

From then on we get to cut to the chase. Taunting the cop. Mysterious letters....

Fassbender and Ferguson do a decent enough job of the old cop and the luckily attractive newcomer, working together to solve the mystery.

It's a little stale but the snow and scenery.on occasions try to lift the gloomy filming.

I watched this as I was interested in what Tyler Perry brings to the movie world. If this is it then maybe he needs to employ writers and then get a director in that has a clue.

This could have been a really good movie, but lacks in every department.

The characters are very wooden and seem to be cast for who they are rather than acting ability.

Then again. The script is so poor and lumpy that even the best actors would struggle to make a silk purse out of this sow's ear.

Or maybe they simply acted as the terrible script desired along with the poor direction.

The outtakes might be better than the finished item.

Another Netflix fail.