Shameek

The opening scene of Mortal Kombat (2021) looks somewhat promising. But it ends there.

The movie fails miserably at almost every aspect other than visuals. Everything including plot, casting, character development, dialog, editing, music score, and action sequences is just awful. It doesn't matter whether you judge it as just a movie or a Mortal Kombat movie, it's bad either way.

Draw no comparisons to the original Mortal Kombat movie, which was quite good. This movie is objectively worse than the sequel Annihilation, which itself was a fairly poor movie.

I love medieval fantasy. So naturally I was bound to watch this series. I've also played Witcher 3. But all that aside this show was just too hot to miss out on, with everyone hyping it up. But I knew better than to go in with sky-high expectations, even though it's a high budget series.

I wasn't too impressed with the pilot. But my friends insisted that I keep watching and that it's going to pick up in later episodes. I forced myself through 3 episodes. That's all I could take. So please note that my review is based on that.

The show is not horrible. It's just not exciting. There's not one interesting character in the show. Even if the lead character was interesting I could have kept going. But Henry Cavill's performance is just as flat as the rest of them. I suppose the story seemed ok. But how can you stay interested if there's so little going on that's exciting. It's not just the cast or acting. The show fails to create any real suspense or drama altogether. It's almost as if the creators were banking on the fact that it's a very popular genre right now and that fans of the Witcher games would automatically talk it up. So far that's exactly how it has turned out. But I suspect it'll get called out at some point if the show doesn't improve drastically.

It's definitely not unwatchable. If you're not very picky about what you watch you can certainly watch this show. But if you're looking for a high quality show this is not it.

Narcos: Mexico is effectively the 4th season of Narcos. While the story it tells is definitely a story worth knowing, it just doesn't have the same kind of charm as the ones in Colombia. The characters are fairly interesting with the exception of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo played by Diego Luna. He delivers a very flat performance and since he is the main character that is a huge turnoff. And even though most of the other actors do a decent job there's still no real standout. The story overall is interesting but lacks high points or dramatic events. After watching the whole season I definitely got the impression that Mexico was a far smaller player in the drug trade than Colombia. The stakes just seem lower.