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If you like to see Tom Cruise, you may like this movie. It's full of the action of Tom as in Mission Impossible, but nothing new. If you expect to see a story like the previous movies of Mummy, forget it, this is a completely different ball game. However, if you have something else better to do, do not waste your money on this movie. I gave a rating 2 out of respect for Tom Cruise.

To begin with, the introduction of the story takes too long. Going all over the place from the Crusade to London and Iraq/Mesopotamia. To make it legit, the director seemed to remember that there was some armies who were shooting stone statue. Next come an woman who is an expert on the stone which so clean and fresh like she was just out from taking a long shower. I really must say that the costume designer of this movie has no idea what an female archaeologist should look like when they are dressed for work. Surely not with a long flowing hair and silk scarf plus some neat trousers.

To make it more ridiculous, Tom Cruise is playing as an absent minded American troops, who seems to have his commanding officer under his thumb. This is really a disgrace for the US army. It is more confusing later when the archaeologist is actually working for a British officials. People would have thought that a US army will bring whatever they found to the US base, but not on this one. They carried the finding to the UK ? Why ? Can't they come up with a more logical story line ?

If you want to destroy something bad, I would have thought that the most logical sense would be to destroy it when they found it. Why would somebody split the bad item in 2 and keep them separated ? It does not make sense, but then with a title "The Mummy", common sense does not work. On the other hand, please give the benefit that the viewers of the movie are not all the idiots who like to keep dangerous stuff as a memento.

Despite all the hocus-pocus of powerful mummy that "defy human comprehension", the ending is very disappointing. Is it because the director or the screen-writer is already out of ideas ? I would have expected a bigger bang on the ending.

Like I said at the beginning, the story line is so bad. I am very disappointed with Tom Cruise's acting. Annabelle Wallis is just like somebody who just started to act and all her expression are just dumb. If want to throw away $20 or $15 or whatever the cost of the ticket, just buy a lottery ticket. You might still have a chance to win. Watching this movie is a sure loss bet.

For a company like Weinstein & Netflix it is a disgrace to produce such a series like Marco Polo. Granted this is a fantasy or historical or cultural or whatever, there should be more attention paid to the whole details of the event. You can not make a "historical" series and do not follow the history at all.

Let me begin with the setting. When you talk about geographical Mongol area, I don't believe that even in 1200s they have forest. As far as everybody knows, the Mongols have a lot of desert... not trees. This is a basic knowledge. How can a director miss this kind of basic information ?

The actors are doing quite well. They performed wonderfully, however they have to follow the script. Whoever wrote the script, has/have no clue whatsoever of the culture of China/Mongol during 1200s. Women do not attend the court of war. This is not Game of Thrones. Having so much freedom as depicted by this series is really out of context. When you want to historical series, try to stick a little bit to the historical information, specially when you try instill the woman's lib idea into the series.

I do understand that it may not be easy to find a good actors/actresses who willing to play on this series, but a Mongol ruler having an Indian looking sons ? And on top of that they are using the Arabic name ? The time is 1200s, not 21st century. There was no artificial insemination at that time and you do not produce Indian looked offspring by marrying a Chinese woman. Why can't the director find more Chinese/Mongolian actors to play this series ? Is this another Hollywood things that the main casts have to be white, regardless of the context of the story ?

The series is about historical travel of Marco Polo to the Far East or say China around 1200s. Granted the timing is also very close to the Templar movement, but are there Templar's army in Mongol during that time ? Does the director know how far is Mongol from Jerusalem ? How could you have an army of Templars in Mongol in 1200s ?

All I can is this, if you are looking for naked women running around and fighting, you may get it here in some episodes. Acting is good, the actors & actress are doing their job well, but don't expect a good story line. A lot of ridiculous and stupid setting (I can not explain everything without spoiling the story) to see as well.

I gave 4 for the hardworking casts who have done their job well and BIG 0 for the script writer.

There is a certain recipe when you make a TV series, one of them is that the story should be simple. This has been achieved by the first episode of Killjoy. I will go too much into the story, otherwise I will be banned for giving spoilers unintentionally. My comments will most about the back set-up of the story.

The story was happening in some remote Galaxy, but strangely enough, there is only human in that galaxy. All the customs indicates that the "galaxy" is earth, but it is not. As always in the sci-fi video or movie, the background is not clear. On one hand they have the hi-tech space shuttle that can travel over inter-galactic travel, but next to that you will see a slump area which is more like Europe during the middle age plus wiring all over the place. I do not know whether this make any sense for the director, but to me this is really ridiculous.

On this remote galaxy, we will see that slavery is normal and street fight is legalized as an entertainment. Their sport is more like the wrestling championship with.... of course... gambling.

The only missing thing that is not available or shown on the first episode is people using drugs. Either they have different drug mechanism or the guy who wrote it forgot completely about the drug scenes. Let's face it, all the bad things about the world is there, why no drug ?

The action is too lame. No enough gory being shown on supposedly wild street fight. All the fighter came out from the ring, clean as a whistle. How's that possible.

Anyway, don't expect too much of this movie and for your information, until the end of the show, watch it only if you really have nothing else to do. By the way, I still don't understand fully what "Killjoy" really means.