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I couldn't watch the whole movie. By half way through I was done due to all the stupidity.

Does anyone have a clue what you can do to protect yourself with $5 million dollars? Especially with days / weeks / months to prepare and all kinds of warnings. Perhaps hiring SOME security might be wise.

Do you think that someone who is invisible wouldn't show up with heat sensitive cameras, pressure sensitive flooring, laser beams or any kind of fog or spray?

To think that protection is spreading coffee grounds on the floor and grabbing a carving knife is beyond belief.

Dumping paint on them and immediately retreating to cower in an unescapable attic, instead of attacking them when you know exactly where they are, is also beyond belief.

This is another hide-in-the-closet-but-not-until-waiting-until-they-can-see-that-you-go-inside-it movie.

Why it got any awards at all is testament to the serious lack of cognitive reasoning skills these days.

Do yourself a favour and skip this ode to stupidity.

Warning: If you watch this movie, after reading this review, it will seriously spoil it so think twice before reading further.

I read many of the other comments here and I didn't see anyone mentioning the biggest plot hole - of the many, many plot holes.

Ask yourself: If I was in a helicopter, in the middle of nowhere, that was overweight due to too many bags of money what would I do about it?

If your answer was land, in the middle of nowhere, stash as much of the cash as needed to be able to fly to the other side of the mountain range and then come back later to get it. Maybe make 2 trips, or 3 or 4... and maybe leave a couple of guys with it to guard it on each side of the mountain range then you are smarter than the writers and everyone else imvolved who didn't say anything to the writers.

Time and again, throughout the whole movie, they have the obvious option to stash the cash and come back for it later but it never occurs to ANY of them.

So... what they do is throw some away, then burn some, then throw more away all the while taking more and more risks and making ever worsening decisions. Smh.

I get that sometimes a character has to make a bad decision or do something stupid to move the plot into some jeopardy but to think every single one of the supposedly trained mercenaries didn't even consider the most obvious solution at any point is stretching credulity past the breaking point.

First let me say I congratulate Cher and all the others who saved this elephant for their actions. That is laudable. Now lets look at the documentary.

It is flat and empty. Cher's part is almost a walk-on. Despite her being instrumental in clearing away all the red tape: from dealing with the zoo to the airlines to the transportation team to the government where the elephant was to the government where the elephant was given sanctuary to the sanctuary itself I have no doubt it was Cher's celebrity that opened all those closed doors BUT the documentary barely even mentions those things.

We see a lot of the elephant in its original zoo. Most of the film is about getting the elephant ready to transport. Then we see a little of the transportation and less of after the elephant was relocated into a temporary holding pen. They tell us how great the temporary holding pen is compared to the miserable conditions it lived its life in. We are told of how that elephant will be released into a virtual paradise. We see a little of that paradise and how great its life will be. And then the documentary ends with the elephant in that temporary facility. Smh

Why didn't they spend time focusing on the urgent problems, chronologically, and Cher's role in the diplomacy required to solve them? That would have added a dramatic element and actually given Cher enough credit, and screen time, to be mentioned in the title.

Why didn't they show us the elephant happily living in the sanctuary interacting with other elephants and enjoying its freedom?

It looks more like someone decided, at the very last minute, to cobble together a documentary and didn't have any time to plan it properly from the beginning or to follow it through to a satisfying ending.

This could have been an very uplifting film - enjoyable for all to see. Instead it is a mess that ends flat leaving the viewers wishing they could see the elephant enjoying its freedom.

For those, and other reasons, this documentary simply misses the mark.

Does anyone remember the Apollo 13 mission where they had to build a CO2 scrubber to clean the air? One would expect that someone at NASA would. What do you think the odds are they would launch a mission to Mars without at least 1, if not several fully functional replacements. I certainly did.

So when the whole mission goes to hell because the SINGLE CO2 scrubber on a two year long mission to Mars is broken beyond repair .... well that is kind of hard to believe.

Then they go outside. The majority of the time they are untethered. When climbing a pole they go hand over hand, some of the time, without being tethered and, occasionally with BOTH hands off the pole! Any climber knows you always keep 3 points in contact and only move 1 at a time. In this case they only have 2 but you would NEVER take both hands off even if you were tethered, which they are not.

Then the most important thing they are carrying slips and flies away. Why? Because it wasn't tethered either. Smh

There are other flaws but those alone are enough to remove all possibility of suspension of disbelief.

This is all the writers fault for not having a clue they were doing.

Acting is good enough and so are the special effects.

It the braindead plot that turns a 7 into a 3.

Shame on everyone involved for not demanding the script be rewritten to be at least close to plausible. :(

If you think that you can prove someone didn't see something 20 years ago by proving that today they aren't the most articulate of people then this movie is for you. Concrete proof is simply stating that the person is not credible today. No need to consider if the experience caused them to have mental problems or if having mental problems is a necessity to see things other don't. Neither of those two possibilities exist in the world of this film-maker. He searches for loons and then proclaims everything is a hoax because... look at this loon. He "debunks" everything from UFO sightings to crop circles to abductions to psychics simply by finding someone that he can ridicule and stating that is proof. No science is used only opinions when it comes to debunking everything. Since the military of many nations claim to have seen UFOs it is amazing how he believes he can "prove" they don't exist by going to a UFO convention in Roswell and interviewing some colourful people. Then, in the finale of the film, he scams a bunch of people into buy some art pieces they have made by conning them into thinking the artist is French. More "proof" of everything being a scam. The real scam is getting this film to be rated more than 3 stars.

How this is rated above 5 is beyond me.

High production values, good acting and horribly unbelievable writing.

I download every episode up until S04E02 and watched this because of how highly rated it was. It was only entertaining until it became incredibly annoying. I watched all of season one and then deleted it without bothering with any of the other seasons.

If you think the daughter of a policeman's idea of self defense is to cringe while a gun is pointed at her head, stay cringing while that gunman, who weighs about the same as her, turns away from her and shoots her policeman father - not once but twice - then continue to cringe while he gets into a wrestling match with the gunman instead of trying to help, wait to be TOLD to run but then only run a short distance and then stand around while his partner shoots the perp and do nothing until being told to phone the police/ambulance... well it would be just like being a victim who is being tortured and failing to take several opportunities to escape earlier on in the show.

It is hard to say that everyone deserved all the punishment they got but it is impossible to say their own actions warranted anything different.

Morons all, which is on the writers.

If you have ANY self preservation instincts, let alone any training whatsoever, this will seriously annoy you.

This movie starts off with bad acting clearly apparent.

My first thought was the lead actress was pretty but didn't know anything about acting. I looked her up, Scarlett Byrne, expecting this to be her first movie only to be very surprised that she is an experienced actress.

Then I noticed that a few others were acting badly and thought it must just be a bad director and a small budget.

Then things started to happen in the plot that made next to no sense.

As it continued it became more and more absurd. It continued getting funnier and funnier as it became less and less plausible.

For example: The stowaway, Morten Suurballe, says the bottles of pills that are found hidden away, nowhere near his reach, aren't hallucinogens. He needs them to stay alive. Literally 1 minute after they flush them down the toilet he is in a coma and is dead in minutes!

Another example: At one point someone asks the supporting actress, Carla Pimentel, if aluminum on the skin of an airplane would protect them from the radiation fall-out of a nuclear bomb - to which she answers she doesn't know. A few scenes later she is doing a calculation with pen and paper, which includes wind speed that is somehow available from instruments that have failed, to determine how far they need to fly to escape the fall-out. :)

Seriously this is hilarious and gets funnier and funnier the more you watch - right up to the end of the movie.

I nominate this as one of the best Turkey Time movies of all-time.

I am tired of seeing the same few dozen sci-fi films shot with different actors and different scripts. If you are as well then this is well worth your time.

Yes, there are a few scientific factual errors but... not too many and none that destroy the plot or the viewing experience. To avoid spoilers I won't go into any details but I wasn't too happy with the scene where the water freezes as quickly as it does.

Still, to a large extent, it didn't do the standard replication of other movies which is bonus points IMHO.

If you have watched as many sci-fi movies as I have you will be pleasantly surprised that you cannot predict what will happen yet the writers avoid cliché - even the ending isn't standard.

This movie, IMHO, is not a 10 but if you love sci-fi movies you really should watch it.

WARNING SPOILERS

Okay so if you are still reading this documentary is, obviously, a review of their pick of the top 12 Christmas movies of all time.

I don't agree with them all but its not my list.

It is well presented but for those who just have to know here is their list (Note: IMDb keeps reformatting it so I can't list them on 12 separate lines):

12. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 11. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 10. Scrooged 9. A Christmas Carol - Alastair Sim (original) 8. The Preacher's Wife 7. The Santa Claus 6. Home Alone 5. White Christmas 4. Elf 3. A Christmas Story 2. Miracle on 34th Street 1. It's a Wonderful Life

First let me say I'm a sci-fi/action fan. This is not a movie I would have watched. I expected it was the Marina Sirtis / Mindy Robinson 2016 sci-fi movie of the same name (and year).

Also I should point out that the vast majority of my reviews are 6.0 or lower so keep that in mind before dismissing my 8 out of 10 as SPAM.

The Circuit has zero action or sci-fi. It is basically a dinner party thrown by people the main couple have just met. I expected to be bored to death and to change it to something else as I am not a fan of soap operas or melodrama but... it is really, really funny and insightful.

Not 3 Stooges funny but Steven Wright funny. Very dry humour - the kind you have to step back and think - did they just say that? Off the wall humour with a cast that are perfect in their roles. These are real people with real quirks. Each actor is odd but remains true to their own characters through-out and it never descends into farce. As such the acting is excellent.

One character, in particular, seems to be unreasonably offensive and vulgar however by the end of the movie I understood why he would be like that and even sympathized with his situation.

I highly recommend this movie for anyone with a dry sense of humour who isn't easily offended.

Lastly, this is a movie that will definitely provoke multiple discussions if viewed in a group.

If you like watching 2 dimensional illustrations that appear to be overlaid on further away 2 dimensional illustrations also overlaid on even further away 2 dimensional illustrations all trying to look like 3D animation then this might be entertaining.

Except: It has no plot, no dialogue, no characters (let alone character development) and, seemingly, no point.

It is simply a collage of badly done war scenes taken without context.

Even die hard Star Wars fans will be hard pressed to find anything interesting, let alone redeeming, in this time waster.

I suggest you avoid watching this and just watch the clock ticking as it will be equally entertaining.

This is a run-of-the-mill war / action story with a Christmas theme. Totally unrealistic and unbelievable but if you like sappy love stories and can ignore all the plot holes it can fill some of your spare holiday time.

An example: The Germans have the drop on the good guys and are about to execute someone when they are suddenly overcome (by surprise). The good guys wrestle away several machine guns and a few have pistols (during the struggle none of the Germans fire a single shot). Then a car with a German officer arrives. Strange things happen. Then the officer pulls out his gun and tries to shoot someone - stopped by a local French woman. He then takes another shot at a good guy who punches him in the face when he misses. Then the officer turns and points his handgun at the main character and they discuss 'a Christmas truce' as the German reinforcements arrive. Why all the good guys with the machine guns didn't shoot him down the second he reached for his gun is totally beyond my imagination and IMHO no one will ever believe it could happen like that.

But... if you don't care about realism and like a sappy love story that is entirely predictable then you might just like this.