silverkelt's reviews

Mishmashed story lines, just not well done in the end. Just couldn't be pulled together and so was not a great movie.

Maybe not the worst move, but clearly not great, I can't imagine you could rank this even a 7 in the end. Even those ranking it 7, probably know its not really a 7. Its sort of entertaining at spots, but since its so non-believable and most of the characters, have no real character building , you really do not care what happens to them.

If they moved slower to start with and built up to the action with some actual plotting points and character building, it would've been a better movie.

Reminds me of Overlord a bit, but well , like 70% less awesome then that movie was.

But when you have a tremendous budget and fail at almost every level, it removes stars. Simply put, this concept film, supposedly made as a sequence starter, was just horrendous and in no ways, deserves to continue. The whole thing needs to be rebooted correctly (after a few years so this failure can be ignored and forgotten)

The only pro's, is that it is extremely light, (though lacking in humor at every level, not at all funny) clean and can be watched by a wide variety of the family, though , even then, it is so lackluster and boring, that is contains very little in terms of wanting to do this.

This reminds me very much of the failed fantastic four, special effects, does not carry a movie, character development, plot points and story telling do. Sadly this lacks all three of those, insane cgi and special effects, then can add to it.

A sad and vapid movie, done poorly.

What exactly is the movie, is the question, its presented fundamentally as scifi, but the elements of scifi in it are, well minimal, it offers very little and is a bit frustrating .

If you look past the few scenes with these scifi elements (like 5% of the movie) its more of a crime drama, wrapped up with some morality lessons.

Hard to pin down exactly, but frankly you replace one zap gun with a pistol.. and it wouldn't have anything to tag it into that genre at all.

Once the actual story starts rolling, its not that bad however and its a little fun and unique film in the end.

Overall.. worthy of a watch.

Is not the worst movie, but considering the star power, money spent on this , it could be considered a bit of bust.

Tom Cruise, is great.. in many movies, but this seems completely miscast for him, there were attempts at some comedic sequences, that do not fit his personality at all.

This movie, is one that you can point to , that a big names do not always fit every movie type, this is definitely one of them.

It offers less from the Brendan Fraiser movie everywhere, except more advanced CGI effects.

Overall? its ok, you can skip it.

Good Pacing and Entertaining modern fantasy dust up, set in a urban Los Angeles area, mixed within the racial aspects is the corrupted cop vs fair cop storylines. Its good, with well developed pacing.

But aside from a mostly solid effort, what really is instrumental here, is this is the biggest release of a movie that Netflix has done, thinking about this the other day, there are so many middling solid, but otherwise uselessly released movies to the theaters every year, failing to find a solid audience, usually because its not one of the more solid blockbusters. These movies could all be released direct to stream instead.

This really is the future of Cinema, those that jump on it, will do themselves a favor.

While you can get away with low budget movies, trying to do so with a cast this large, produced a very bad result. Hackney scripting, acting and story telling. Bad props, terrible makeup, horrible voice effects.

I do not blame anyone really, when you try to do a fantasy epic on 2 million dollars, Boom, this is your end result. This is ok for say, some friends who got together and did a fantasy movie, for almost zero dollars spent (because in reality 2 million for something of this scope is nearer to Zero dollars then not. )

Not good, not worth your time watching really.

Compare and Contrast this with something like Saga, Curse of the Shadow ..

That was "low" budget done right, I am sure its budget was bigger then this, but still, it was done right.

Obviously, they wanted this to make a billion dollars worldwide and soak in a gravy train.. but its pretty flat. One stars is harsh, but its not much better then a 5 or 6 at best, story is slow , explanations week, preponderance isn't bad.. if its directed and written well.. this isn't.

Story is weak and it shows, acting is acceptable in the midst of such drivel, they did a OK job.

I wouldn't bother watching it again really. Wasn't worth the time the first time more or less.

While the maddeningly depressing superhero films Logan and to a lesser extent Wonder Women have higher user average reviews, I actually think GotG2 is better then both, mixing as much humor and vitriol together with conceptualizing the thought of a farther might be, to what he is, and what you are , are all mixed together, this is a "finding" yourself movie more then it looks when you skim the surface.

Not every deep self exploring voyage , has to be done dour like, and GotG 2, proves you can do it with hyper speed humor on crack.

Its really one of the better Marvel Universe movies, and doesn't feel tired out like the Iron Man by #3.

I would say out of the 17 so far Phase Marvel movies, GotG2, is by far the most fun, it even surpasses the original.

Overall, Worth the Watch.

Its not great.. its not in the top ten out of the PHASE movies, but its better then some of the more recent spider man flicks.

Spider man is hard anyways, frankly, not 100% sure why they push so hard to re-release a new spider man every 2-3 years.. its mostly the same story retold over and over..(like DCs batman.. jeepers creepers.. how many batman movies do you need to make.. cant even wait 15 years between.. just push push push push.)

Overall though, this is way more kid friendly, which I do appreciate then some of the other films. The humor is friendly enough for most pre-teens to get and the action isn't anywhere as dark and foreboding as the some of the latest other Marvel verse films (age of ultron, winter soldier) both of which was too much for younger viewers.While I think those films have their place, I do appreciate something a bit lighter as a opposite.

Worth the watch.

In comparison and contrasting Life with the newest Alien Covenant movie, Life, not only blew it away, it also was quite entertaining. It was a refreshing take on the monster in space concept, updated in a way that every Alien movie seems to have missed since Alien 3 at least.

In reality its probably closer to a 7, but, I give it a point, for not only being better then any other monster in space movie format in the last few years, but beating my expectations.

Overall? Worth the watch.

With a bit more depth and dramatic flair then its predecessors, this is perhaps one of the best three or four superhero movies ever made, however it really could've explored those depths a bit further and flushed them out. While, I appreciate the effort, those giving this movie a ten , seem a bit enthusiastic about the overall scope of this film.

At the same time, I will find it hard to believe, anyone , could in reality bring The Wolverine more to life then Hugh Jackman did, some actors, seem born to play certain roles.

Overall? Worth the Watch!

The critics did not treat this film well, however, after re-watching it a couple of times, I will admit, I find it mostly a entertaining and solid effort, with the impeccable impressive Saoirse Ronan headlining the cast. I cannot think of one thing I've seen her in, that Im not impressed by her acting abilities, including this.

While not per se, a great movie, it deserves a solid rating.

Mildly entertaining romantic sci fi dust-up.

Overall? Worth the Watch

While entertaining and fun and even appealing in its first 60 or so mins of the movie, it seems to bog down as discoveries are made , it feels like a political spy thriller more then a action sci fi movie in its end. Its parts are good, but not great, it could've been better, however it is fairly solid and worth a re-watch now and then. Even though the CGI effects are solid, they could've delved so much further into concepts of cyber with cyber worlds.. they seem to miss that mark a bit.

Considering the tepid and dismal movies pawned out every year to the viewing public, I would say this more or less achieved better then average status.

Overall? Worth the watch.

I am uncertain why, or how this was eviscerated to the extent it was.It is a wholly solid effort, with more then apt acting from the leads.

The story concept via David Brin's novellas, is a loose translation of that work, and as the story advances, differs greatly from the 2- 3rd novellas in that story line. However, the overall concept, is conceived accurately of symbol of civilization combating oppression of freedom via the overreaching tyrants of the eight (in the movie).

Every once in awhile, both critics and audiences, seem to miss the mark on a review rating, though rare, I would consider this a exception to both ratings.

Its far superior to what the usual lambasted professional critics gave it, and I would think the average audience reviews should be a bit higher then it is.

The show slowed down over the course of a few seasons, I think (as many shows before them) less ratings over time, forced them to change story directions, speeding up planned story lines and it showed.

It took variations of monster of the week themes, with story arcs, while adding in campy type scifi elements, borrowed from other shows such as fringe, x files and eureka. The result, is at times entertaining , but overarching results , make it a paler shade of any of those aforementioned shows.

Worth watching? yes, its not as bad as some have made it out to be, but neither is it as good as any of those other shows (with the monster model, done better in both x files and fringe and the campy feeling , no other show could probably be more campy then eureka, and still entertain you.

This is supposed to be a sort of apocalyptic future, but its highly convoluted, what is the real tragedy, is that Micheal Jai White really could be a fairly good action star, when you see movies like Never Back Down 2, you see the potential for it.

BTW.. this isn't a ITS such a BAD movie, its sort of good movie.. its a BAD movie and its really BAD.. it follows on the heels of other MJW movies I have seen lately.

I have a hard time even finishing his last few.

This is overall poor performance from the cast, with cheap production and a rip story-lines as well.

This isn't the sort of independent low budget movie, that you say, "hey, that is sort of cool" no.. its horrendous.

Recommend "skip it"

Please bear in mind a few factors on Fallen Skies, It is obvious it was made inexpensive, the cgi effects , props and background materials, do not hold up to more polished Scifi shows, nevertheless, character acting is always the first and foremost rated item anyone should take into account.

For the first three seasons of the show, its clear they are trying to blend lessons from history into this current war, related and approached materials of American revolution, Vietnam and even American colonialism are broached during this, this marriage of course , under scrutiny doesn't always hold up to the story lines they tried to merge with them, but overall it was a satisfying attempt. In fact, if they kept this to three seasons, my personal ratings would be slightly higher, the reflective reasoning behind actions and the attempt to invoke deeper meaning , wasn't what ruined this show.

It was clearly, de-scripted and re-imagined from season 4 onward, without revealing much of anything, suffice it to say the overall series ground down, hard to watch the last two seasons compared to the fourth.

That said, its not a terrible series, so would recommenced you catch up on it if you haven't seen it yet.

Full Definition of FUN (Websters Dictionary)

1 : what provides amusement or enjoyment; specifically : playful often boisterous action or speech (full of fun)

This is what this film provides, its flavorful, exuberant, different in so many ways that a lot of animation films lack.

This can be enjoyed across a very wide spectrum of audiences, it doesn't even need to pander or highbrow adult humor, it is so subtlety applied to the context, whomever was responsible for this loose adaptation, should have loads of more work in the future.

Hits the mark!

Sometimes movies, based on titles alone get unjustified reviews, this clearly isn't one of them.

A hackneyed script, jolted, terrible actors, who clearly didn't attempt to put a serious professional attitude to their roles.

Even a fine actor Jeremy Irons, did not buy into this, it is clearly so over the top horrible, it would be fun if it wasn't supposed to be a serious attempt at a fantasy movie.

How, or why this treatment was allowed to continue after a week and wasn't totally abolished and re-cast, re-director-ed, is beyond me.

I originally saw this movie in the theaters, and sometimes after time, re-watching changes impressions, this clearly did not, a review after so much time, confirmed my early memories of this move.

Its just terrible, it is no where even in the top ten of all time fantasy movies, even before some of the more serious recent and more modern works have come out.

The one saving grace, was this early on CGI effects, did not look that horrendous, but it didn't even have that much of it.

You should have a fine balance between the two, which this movie "could" have had, if the actors and script were not just so horrible.

In hindsight to the predator 2, this movie was well directed and acted by a ensemble cast led by Adrian Brody, even has former UFC champion Oleg Taktarov, (who was another surprise, acting decently)

I wasn't expecting it even to be as good as predator 2 and I missed this when originally released, as so happens with these titles , I finally caught it on one of my streaming services.

I quite enjoyed the fact that it was better then my pre-conceived notions of it would be. Sci-fi dark action flick, its not quite as good as the original, but its a better effort then the second in the story and was a pleasant surprise.

This movie deserved not only a sequel but to be a blockbuster hit, it is really that good, I have no other material to shed on the movie itself, many other reviewers have already brought forth that.

What I would like to comment on, is the marketing campaign, or the lack of one.

First off, they didn't have a clue how to market it, they wanted to go after female audiences, so they dropped John Carter of Mars, to just John Carter (does that explain anything to anyone?)

Instead of revealing parts of the story, they literally had no ideal , the trailers, led to know where, was nonsensical at best.

NOTHING leading up to the film portrayed how GOOD the film was, nor did they target core audiences, in fact they went out of their way NOT to target them.

What a shame, this would've been one of the best trilogies of all time, but sadly is saddled with the title "BEST FILM to be destroyed BY ONE of the WORST MARKETING campaigns ever"

Whomever, directed this campaign, hopefully learned a few lessons, other then destroying a fine work.

Considering how much they spent on this, I guess you would have to give the crew and cast some credence to their work. Its not overally terrible , not the worst of the low budgets you might see, but not really as good as many others.

It was probably minimal takes as well, shot in a short duration.

Overall, the people posting more then 5 stars on this is just ridiculous, its really poor production by today standards (not even TV quality) it has some poor acting in places. Its plodding, conceptually slow with minimal payoffs.

If reduced down to a hour, it wouldn't be a half bad episode of something akin to Twilight Zone etc.

There isn't much reason to watch this, if you have others on your list, just skip it.