Reviews

I don't know what the other reviewers watch. The movie wasn't full of bad acting or ridiculous one-liners. This clearly was a true story. Some of the "actors" weren't weird looking at all and clearly they've acted in many, many, many movies before, it wasn't their first time at all.

The main actor is Kristoffer Kristofferson's son and it's totally believable that a blond Scandinavian is biological brothers with a hairy Arabic man.

And totally believable that when the main character is told to be "immune", and he doesn't acknowledge this when the main lady comes and is also immune.

You see plot holes, I see swiss cheese.

It only contributes to the solid plot, when at the end the woman said she left 3 vials of blood in the fridge, but there was only one, and it was only about 1/4 full.

Not that great. Watch for the nostalgia. None of the sequels touch the first one. This one felt like it was missing something. I like the idea of it, but Lana Wachowski seems to insert pretentious, spiels. She did that several times here, and over and over in the Sense 8 series, it took away from it.

I guess this was a movie of her friends, as a lot of the original cast and of Sense 8 were in the movie.

It lacked the magic of the originals. The originals we were hooked on figuring out the ideas. This one didn't really have new ideas. They emphasized the pointlessness part of existing in the matrix. But also I was left with the feeling that Neo and Trinity coming back was also pointless in the real world. Like they are too old to have children, so they aren't birthing something. Are they just going to meddle and try to save people? Just fly around and do stuff? I suppose that reflects mid-age people at the moment... who aren't choosing children and there is a pointlessness about their lives. So people just get bitter and dabble in other peoples lives or unimportant things. Maybe then Trinity and Neo will start to get annoying, as they'll start inserting themselves into things people didn't ask for. Kind of like a generation that is annoying because it's purposeless.

I think if more sequels come... yes, I will watch. But this is a disappointing start. Maybe play into the various phases of life. They are a bit older than mid-age, maybe their shift into elders and to death are next.

I thought it was pretty good. Good characters. Maybe needed a little more showing of the powers, but overall neat story. Americans really need to let go of always showing black people in movies having the only talent of rapping. The whole movie that character was doing cool things, and they end on - forget all those cool things, the girl raps. That's dumb. Get out of the stereotype. She found gangster drug dealers, helped save someone, overall did good. Who tf cares about the rapping? Americans are so stuck in their one track mind sometimes, I don't get it.

Today people play the race card too much. It's a room full of multicultural designers. And those two designers play the race card as their means to try and win. I guess you can't blame but their points were... emotional but not seeing the bigger picture. That industry is competitive, catty and difficult. So much money goes through there. If they want in the game, they have to play it. They may think other designers steal their ideas without seeing that that is actually very common no matter what the race of the people involved. They also didn't see that frankly the criticisms of their clothes was accurate - it's all been ruffles and sloppy looking and too much. You can't just cry and pull the race card every time you hear a no because if any success comes from the sympathy you garner, it won't be sustainable because no one logically wants to just buy things out of sympathy forever, they have to like the clothes. And well... they weren't liking the clothes, that's honest.

Checked out owner so attached to dysfunction, he hires back someone who can't cook, another who is creepy. Fires and demotes two women who seemed to be capable. The owner seems like a little weenie. There must be something going on we don't see. Like why would that young chef accept a server job at the same place? Is the owner not really the owner? Someone with his demeanor doesn't seem like they'd be a good business owner, so maybe he's an actor or just a manager? Who knows. Show is interesting concept though.

It's weird that there are three movies released relatively close to each other that are essentially identical (A Quiet Place, Bird Box and now The Silence). This movie was alright except the priest + groupies part didn't fit. Aren't they only a few weeks into this crisis, and weird cults already are starting to form? I know this is clearly not realistic, with flying dinosaur creatures. But usually there are elements that are still realistic, to help make the story believable.