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A totally waste of time. An overweight Tom Hardy valse through this film without a glimpse of enjoyment in his eyes. He says time after time that he has an enormous hangover but that doesn't excuse his poor performance. Zombie like. Depressing. And the storyline doesn't make any sense. Thinner than Deadpoles multilayer of timelines. And that was impossible to understand. The research doctors in the compound while trying to include a one dollar sob Freud to one of them just fall flat because it doesn't really have any meaning and the military agenda is just plain dumb. The WW couple are supposed to be a comic relief but is just sad. Summa summarum. Like Deadpole and Penguin this is a film that want to cash in on the comics series but have lost all energy in the process and end up as stone cold films with no heart and no panache. Sad.

You have a town that should look like a town in the fifties but with mobile phones and electric cars it look like a studio plant. You have lead actor that is Colin Farell but doesn't look like Colin Farell. He plays the Penguin but doesn't look like a penguin. Anything goes. You have a mob family that's suppose to care for the family but put the next in line in an asylum. Or third or second or an uncle or whoever because anything or everything goes and we don't know who's who. You got a script that's Plothole City and tries to tell a story about the Penguin but flip flops around several timelines and flashbacks and give us an hour in Gothams asylum with ham acting. Do the crazy peoples boogie. Roll your eyes and out with the tongue. Anything goes. Mr Farell should have said "Hey, shouldn't the Penguin look a bit like me?

No?

Well, we have come up with this concept and we think that anything goes in a tv series about serial killers and grotesquely drawn characters. Farell doesn't have to be Farell.

I haven't been a fan of Owen, he was just one film from being the new Nick Cage i. E. never a really good film the last ten years. So I was a bit reluctant when this series comes along. Sam Spade? But lo and behold, Clive Owen carry the leading role with panache and gets his character just right. Amazing. The story about spies and resistance movement and some boy who is kidnapped and maybe a genius is hard to follow but Owen sort of make sense of it all with his performance and appearance. Not an easy task but we get plenty rewards along the way. An American in the countryside in France in the fifties seems like a bad idea, but it's not. It's interesting and suspenseful and sensuous and great entertainment. Kudos to Owen and the team behind this series.