Reviews

Season 3 has a potential to lift it up - but Cavill is right to leave- what the hell is going on there. How can you screw it up so badly?

The whole fight between the groups are just pointless - and there are just aimless and brainless issues between them while Ciri never seems to have an idea what she can become - we get dragged unwillingly because there is no real engagement between episodes - some parts were potential to spark off but it just keep losing focus.

What's with the tangent storyline of the prince and the bard? Was this even necessary while he goes around bedding ladies in between villages? Why must all the Netflix shows push this unnecessary agenda into the whole story. I find it just tiresome to watch this - then towards the end, the whole story between the two just go completely off.

Towards the end of the first part of Season 3 - it was not going anyway. The second part just went down straight. One whole meandering episode wandering around the desert?

Season 4 will be worst the way this is going. They might as well can the show. It is as well as watching Cavill put up with it, it was really unbearable.

Firstly in perspective, i am a fan of Nolan movies but in Oppenheimer, i find it is a bags of hits and misses. As a student of Physics, i do know more than a regular person on the Manhattan project and some of the characters there. I find it completely offsetting on what Nolan was trying to convey on the physics behind the bomb. All those visuals and music just don't work -

I also find that Nolan was trying to find an angle for the subject matter and in the end, he put it on the backdrop of the communist witch-hunt done on Oppenheimer by Strauss and here, it fails for me too. The music and the pacing plus all the different layers you need to peel , is just too much. I am not surprised a lot of reviewers here are conflicted on their ratings - on one hand i feel they feel the need to give it some good ratings but it is either boring or a lot of the topics / parts flew past them.

The pace felt rushed, the jumping around of the stories will not be understood by a lot of viewers who has no background knowledge of these issues or even the science itself. The science itself was very paltry and the proper link is not even visble to me, what more for a layperson with no background in physics.

There were no issues on the actors involved (they are all good) and the technicality of the movies from the look, the detailed work in the sets and the competency of the filming done. That however did not go too well in my opinion is the writing of the story. Just on the topic of the atomic vs hydrogen bomb, the issue of fission and fusion. You can see this is one of the key issue that cause the friction between Oppenheimer and his accuser Strauss - but was the topic of fusion and fision between the two made clear? All we hear are some statements - that won't work - it's too complicated. You know in this area Nolan failed to make the science clear and no one watching was any wiser on it.

Granted it is a hard topic to make easier to understand or even that statement about how Einstein was "old" and the new physics was to take over ...it is difficult trying to present context to all these and in that sense, while wanting to throw Einstein into the picture here, i find it is more of a show trying to put some famous scientist into the story. A better approach would be to come from the angle of the the quantum physics - and the excitement of that era in physics as new discoveries in those universities and the result of these discoveries present the issue of bomb (which was related by Oppenheimer in one scene)

When it comes to the era of the inquiry/trial - the music and the way the questions was phased to be punctuated and the stepping of foots (footsteps of wars) - well that is Nolan way of making a point. For this , it fall flat for me.

In my opinion, if this was to be done, it would been better in Oliver Stone interpretation of the JFK shooting where that one event hinge all the other stories and that strong line and clear visual and audio and the feel of that period and the urgency can be conveyed.

I know the scientist who appears in the shows are merely token appearance from Einstein, to Bohr, Heisenberg and then finally the greatest sin, how Feynman was presented as merely a buffoon playing bongo drums. If all Feynman does was just to play his drums, then might as well not put him in. Since there were so many commie checks, a better way was to have Feynman arrested for his safe cracking antics and he was put in front of Oppenheimer to decide if he was some Russian spy. That will be in character of him and it will be a better representation of that brilliant later Nobel prize winner for Physics.

Creed 3 was a decent movie by itself except that underlying it was the whole series was Rocky soul - maybe the owners of the franchise wanted to really spin it out on its own away from Rocky totally but well...it tried and failed.

The story is a familar one - two friends had an incident, one ran off and did quite well...but the other...well he went to jail and came out feeling he was cheated...so the setup is there for some unfinished businesses to settle ...

You know Rocky was needed when Adonis found some closure at that point with his mum dying moments but it was an incomplete one, because what he really needed was Rocky to tell him the right way to go and then go all the way with him. This is the problem with this movie - it needed that soul and depth which Rocky can give but they tore it away from this show. So, it become a soulless piece of work.

Oh the tension was great like a hood movie, the scenes, storyline and the action was good but when Adonis start to train , Duke saying the same thing as it was in Rocky Balboa - well it's just ain't the same.

Rocky would have told Adonis what is the right way to go and that will have turn the show into something better but on this note, it falls short. This show is about Creed trying to find his own self without Rocky figuratively and in real life too...

What soul does Rocky give to the movie...that soul is those things that tear him apart that he has to get it out of him and we all know this ourselves, we have our own issues too...that tension which makes him do the right thing and drives him to keep getting up when he is hit down ...and we all know Rocky is not perfect, he knows that too and we all live our lives thru Rocky and that's the soul that is missing in this movie. Sly Stone is right, when they tear him out of the movie, they tore the soul of out it too and i felt it missing in this show even though it try to "recreate it" ...

so do you know what Rocky would have told Adonis - don't fight him, you have nothing to prove, live your life with your wife and kid and get on with it, this is one fight not worth fighting for.