Reviews

I can tolerate slow TV shows just fine if they engulf me in story, good acting, production, etc. At the end of this show, it just left me with so many questions; like: "Why was the story even told?". "So the impact of the Catholics/Protestants really didn't matter in this story?". "Japan was really this depressing of a place? Nothing to look forward to but death?". Then there's all the ridiculous antics of Blackthorne. So he's a Protestant who is upset at these "savage Catholics" that are engaging in free market capitalism. Nevertheless the guy acts like his Protestant faith is superior to the Catholics. Yet he's the most vile, evil, and dishonest person, coming into Japan. He basically has no faith at all. Yet he's risking his life for this "faith"? It's just such an absurd plot point. It's so hard to overcome that throughout the first several episodes. You can't help but roll your eyes. Then the show just continues on this incredibly slow-burn of a pace. Especially at the end. I'm just grateful they didn't do this for 6+ season like the majority of other modern TV shows to make it into a cash cow. In the end, the show committed seppuku after one season and I would gladly 2nd it out of respect, with a sword in hand.

Now for a few Positives: Good wardrobes/Costumes Good acting by the "Japanese" actors.

Nice cinematic shots.

What an absurd film this was. First you have Dinosaurs living in cold weather. An animal without fur, with bare flesh, running around in snow. What other lizard (cold blooded) species do you see out and about with snow on the ground? Paleontologists believe Dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Someone tell the people making the Jurassic Park movies.

How about Dinosaurs running as fast as Chris Pratt's motorcycle going at top speed? Yep, that happened. Or quite possibly the most ridiculous thing was seeing a flying dinosaur species flying at the same height as an airplane, traveling just as fast as the airplane, and tearing through metal with it's claw. You heard that correctly, bone being sharper/stronger/harder than metal.

But if you thought, "ok, that is rediculous....there's no way it could get more absurd than that". But you'd be wrong! How about locus that are lit on fire in a room to hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit and those locus while glowing red with flame and heat, fly in the air for miles. LOL, that happened.

There was a scene near the end where the two women enter a room to press a green button. There's a bunch of Locus on their sides, seemingly dead. Because why would locus be laying on the ground on their sides not moving? But suddenly when the power comes back on those locus suddenly come back to life and start flying.

Now all that is bad enough, but the plot was all over the place. It was poorly written, not sequenced smoothly, and it was just one of those films where you expect it to be on the sci-fi channel.

Would I recommend someone waste almost 2 hours and a half watching this film? Heck no. Terrible.

The Wonder woman film was actually good, the dark knight trilogy is amazing, but everything else that has been released? I want my time back. Justice League has corny jokes, HORRIBLY edited (more on this), bad CGI, an underwhelming villain, etc.

There's a scene in Justice League that is so bad I was scratching my head as to what the heck just happened. They are stuck underground when Steppenwolf collapses a tunnel and causes water to flood it. Next thing you see is the entire Justice League scrambling to get out. They are in and on Batman's spider machine device when all of a sudden Cyborg just ejects out of the machine, the Flash comments "Why is he leaving", then the scene just ends and they are above ground in safety. Huh!? Horrible editing. What's the point of them having a panic escape scene if you are just going to edit it in mid sequence and have them safe? I'll tell you why because in post production they edited out a ton of stuff from this film because it was too long and boring.