RAFTOPOULOS-2

Reading the other reviews, I believe that most people expected to see a spandex-dressed superhero series. Stan Lee's name in the very title of the series would cause that.

This is a police story. Police detectives who have to deal with something seemingly impossible. It is the concept of ordinary people who have to deal with extraordinary situations.

It is closer to "Fringe" than anything else. Not much action, but plenty of mystery. It has an intriguing plot (with a few minor flaws) that keeps interest quite high. Acting is OK, nothing exceptional, but nothing disappointing either.

Overall this is a great story, told in a satisfying way. As I am a fan of the genre, I consider "Lucky Man" to be one of the top 3 series of 2016.

Why oh why do Hollywood writers have to so brutally rape history, while history itself is so interesting that it would have made a great movie in the first place?

The 300 were the the Spartan king's guard. They were present at Thermopylaie, but they had nothing to do with the battle of Salamis. So the title is off. Salamis was a naval battle commanded by the Athenians and their general Themistocles. In this movie, Themistocles (and everyone else apparently) has ninja powers. Xerxes, the noble Persian emperor is apparently a freak of nature who carries his freak-show with him and he has a woman to command his fleet...

The dialogs are worse than an 80's Hong-Kong karate b-movie and there is unnecessary nudity all over. The visual style, while something fresh on the original movie, it is not effective now and sometimes it even becomes annoying.

This movie is an insult to everyone because not only of it's content and how much history was twisted, but because it is just a poor movie.

I find it hard to follow a story that has a deep message, when it is surrounded by inaccuracies as great as the ones in this movie.

I was just reading a paragraph in Bill Bryson's "A short history of nearly everything" in which he asks a geologist how much warning would we have in case of an asteroid hitting the earth. The answer was "probably about a second". These things travel many times faster than the speed of sound and they only become visible when they hit the atmosphere - which they cross in about a second before they slam on the surface. From then on, it would take a few minutes before the effect was global. Not days, not hours.

The movie is not about the event itself. It is about redemption, forgiveness, faith, soul searching and more. And it would have been great, if the main event premise wasn't flawed from the start. If you can overlook this (and a few other holes in the plot), this is an OK movie, it might even touch you in some sense and make you wonder what would you if the world would end in hours?