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[pauljeremiah]

Cool concept for a film but the execution was meh at best. The action scenes were edited within an inch of their life and just became an incoherent mess.

 

[Sakura Doritos]

Cool concept for a film but the execution was meh at best. The action scenes were edited within an inch of their life and just became an incoherent mess.

My biggest problem is the lack of soul the movie has. It has a hollow message it tries to make and sometimes it's desperately trying to make it and the other times it is nihilistic.

The action was what kept me there. Had a family member in the room watching it with me and they fell asleep.

 

[triplestation]

my computer doesn't have enough ram to handle all dat EDGE fuuuuuu

 

[Mossybrew]

It was aright I guess. After the halfway point my attention really started wandering. Got some work done on the coffee table puzzle tho.

 

[Mahadev]

Typical Netflix mediocrity. Let's look at the characters, Theron was the typical boring Mary Sue that has no discernible characteristics other than strong and sad, the entire character of the 2 gay characters was... being gay, the other guy was also sad, bad CEO was bad and the black guy was the most retarded CIA agent I've seen in my life but at least he was less one-dimensional than everyone else. Also why didn't they kill him when they didn't need him anymore, wasn't the evil CEO, you know, evil? I'm not mentioning the story too much because other than the fairly decent concept of immortals it was forgettable trash.

We really live in the age of mediocrity, Hollywood used to be so much better than this shit.

 

[Sakura Doritos]

Typical Netflix mediocrity. Let's look at the characters, Theron was the typical boring Mary Sue that has no discernible characteristics other than strong and sad, the entire character of the 2 gay characters was... being gay, the other guy was also sad, bad CEO was bad and the black guy was the most retarded CIA agent I've seen in my life but at least he was less one-dimensional than everyone else. Also why didn't they kill him when they didn't need him anymore, wasn't the evil CEO, you know, evil? I'm not mentioning the story too much because other than the fairly decent concept of immortals it was forgettable trash.

We really live in the age of mediocrity, Hollywood used to be so much better than this shit.

I thought the Gay characters were the best part of the movie. They held every scene together despite being pages in this wokepedia. The best acting Scene and hint of emotion came from the bearded one. In fact, even when they aren't in a scene they are pretty much the motivation to get to the next scene.

 

[Mahadev]

I thought the Gay characters were the best part of the movie. They held every scene together despite being pages in this wokepedia. The best acting Scene and hint of emotion came from the bearded one. In fact, even when they aren't in a scene they are pretty much the motivation to get to the next scene.

They were mildly entertaining but incredibly bland. In order for the viewer to attach himself to the character and thus to the script you need a character that is realistic and has flaws and merits so that the viewers can empathize with him. These pathetic Netflix cardboard cutouts of characters have none of these characteristics.

Partly it's because of woketards, when you have to have plenty of "representation" in a movie that cannot in any way have flaws because that negates the point of agenda pushing with these characters it is impossible to create believable or interesting characters. People have serious flaws, they fuck up, they're human, none of these shitty characters have any of that. The other part is mere incompetence, maybe it's because of the diversity hires (who THE FUCK is Gina Prince-Bythewood?) or maybe it's because they hire the safest most generic writers and directors just to make profit, I don't know, but Netflix is really starting pissing me off with this generic trash.

 

[Falcs]

It was pretty woke, but I think they managed to fit the writing around the wokeness relatively well. For example there's a scene where a gay guy gets asked as a joke if his partner is his boyfriend, (they don't know that he is) and he goes way over the top in professing his love for his partner before kissing him. Naturally you think "What the fk? What the point of this?" then the other guys all look at each other with the same reaction/look in their face and pull them apart.
I found that in particular to be funny because they put in character reactions to the obvious woke moment that matched the audience response of "Wtf".

I found the wokeness to be tolerable, due to the writing not really revolving around it (at least not obviously), and the story was mostly interesting.

 

[Rockondevil]

For a Netflix movie it was fine and I enjoyed the couple hours it ran for.
If they had planned on this going to cinema I definitely would've had higher expectations.

I was more interested in

Spoiler

the Asian bird at the bottom of the ocean

than everything else.

 

[Skyr]

Netflix needs to step down from producing movies.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

I keep hearing the title of this and thinking it's like... I dunno... some period piece or something. First time I checked a trailer and it's like oh okay, this is something else entirely. Guess I need to give it a try.

 

[DrJohnGalt]

I liked the idea but the execution was complete shit. The action sequences were for the most part amateurish and the actors just didn't seem to be skilled enough to pull it off. The facade wore so thin in parts it was like watching old WWF wrestlers who fall before they even get hit.

Story? Meh. Nothing really new.

Woke? Embarrassingly so. Seems like Netflix has a "representation" quota because almost all of their N-exclusive shows go out of the way to check off all the boxes whether or not it helps or hurts the story.

EDIT: I'm a sucker for history and I would have liked to see more of the historical backstories from the characters. But of course it's set today so it's an evil white guy with too-close eyes who wants to use his evil corporation to create a monopoly (won't get too much more into it in case there are a few masochists here that haven't seen it yet but plan to).