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Skymed (2022)
Cancon fluff
This is Flying Doctors meets Arctic Air, and then Goes to Camp. None of the main characters are worth caring about which makes it difficult to watch. Also, the injuries/patients are pretty routine or silly.
Last the Night (2022)
Wants to be many things.
This movie wants to be a revenge movie but falls short. It also wants to be a slasher movie with guns, and falls short. To get an idea of the caliber of this movie, the main character is a history teacher with only four students. They couldn't even afford some BG actors to make even half a class. The rest of the budget was spent on a bit of fake blood.
Coyote (2021)
You'll know whether you will like this very early
There is a scene right at the beginning of this show when Ben, the Border Patrol agent needs to use the facilities for a number 2. He goes to a business and goes down into the basement to use the washroom. Later he will have to climb on top of a dumpster to get in the window he left ajar. (???)
While sitting down and doing his business, he notices what appears to be fecal matter bubbling up from the floor tiles. He leaves and goes around the building only to climb in the window.
He then puts gloves on and lifts up the floor tiles to reveal a tunnels beneath. Then, with gloves on, covered in fecal matter, he grabs hold of his radio and calls it in. You can see him transfer fecal matter to the transceiver.
If you can get past this scene then the rest of the series won't bother you. Otherwise stop watching there. It's just one scene of dumb followed by another.
Last Looks (2021)
Too many tropes.
Charlie Waldo is a disgraced former cop.
Let's get one thing out of the way. The trope where a police officer solves a case and then gets promoted based on that is only something that happens in movies. Police work on teams so it is never just one person. Promotions to supervisory positions are generally based on people management and administrative skills than anything.
Next is that he is disgraced as a whistleblower of sorts regarding an old case where a witness lied and an innocent person was convicted. It's kinda murky, but certainly not believable that the entire police force would hate him years later. Cops are much to apathetic to have that much drama.
Then he's got the "I am a private eye" Trilby. This is a magical Trilby because he lives like a mountain man and the hat isn't all that dirty. It must be sticky on the inside though because he rides his bike and it never blows off. Ever.
He gets too many concussions to be able to figure anything out that involves logic. You can see that in the stupid actions he takes all the time. Even his conclusion at the end is tenuous and can't be proven.
Femme fatale in the form of a kindergarten teacher. 'nuff said.
Mel Gibson plays what Hollywood thinks British actors are.
If you're expecting a decent whodunnit, then you'll need to stretch reality for this one. It's not all that good. If you like movies that do takes on genres, then you might like this one.
The Doorman (2020)
No stars
You can tell the first reviews were written by the PR department. Anything over 4 stars can't be taken seriously. The premise of the movie is good, however, we are treated like idiots all the way through. There are hidden passages in the building but are never used to effect. She has many opportunities to take the bad guys out but keeps running away from them. She is supposed to be skilled with guns but can't hit someone 8 feet in front of her. But she can take out 8 cops with guns drawn (and many pointing at the back of the head of the cop in front of them), and make them all unconscious. But she struggles with a single cop on the roof.
It's just a lot of stupidity that ends with a fan with a spike on it. Really, who puts a 2 foot pointed spike on the center of an 8 foot ventilation fan? Just bad scenes followed by more bad scenes. I'm sorry Jean Reno has fallen on hard times, or else why would he appear in this?
Barkskins (2020)
A missed opportunity.
I have not read the book, so I cannot compare it to that. I did see a comparison to Frontier, which is a pile of unwatchable crap by people who have no clue about Canada. I am a direct descendant of the people who start New France, so from an historical perspective, I can offer an opinion.
This takes place some time between 1670 when the HBC was formed and 1688 when the English and French went to war. Throughout the series the continually call Québec by the name Quebec City. That is a modern thing from English people. At this time it would have simply been Québec.
I'm not sure what the fort was for because there wasn't trading going on. The construction on the fort was also wrong because there were no palisades. In 1653 about 50 Frenchmen were able to hold off about 600 Iroqois for 9 days at the Siege of Trois Rivieres. At that time those 50 men were almost half the population of New France. They also weren't taking the threat from the Iroqois seriously, when at that time they would send out raiding parties to fight them. The French were at war with the Iroqois.
The cabin that René lives in is completely open to the elements. The door is not a door at all. The Manor house that Trépannier lives in defies all logic. Who built it, and when? It is 100 years too soon.
This was just a wandering story that just flopped out.
Messiah (2020)
I don't know what people are raving about.
I went into this with an open mind only to discover that it is subtle propaganda. Things don't make sense in the series and is seems they just decide to project what they think would happen, but not how people would really react.
The main character turns out to be an Iranian fraud, and not the messiah who just happens to look like what Bible America would imagine Jesus looked like. This is where you the viewer are pushed the suggestion that bad Iranians are tricking America's good Christians.
He leads a group of Syrians to Israel's border to starve then disappears. We are to believe this makes him more mysterious. He shows up in Texas, where every redneck accepts this middle-easterner as a prophet. He hides in a tent and we are to believe this makes him more mysterious. There are no actual miracles, but we are to believe that thousands are following him across the country.
Sorry, but American attention spans are not long enough for the premise in this series to be believable. Like the POTUS would secretly meet with person and even pay any attention.
Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Good potential with a few flaws.
I've watched the first two episodes and I expect to continue watching. The music was too loud in the first episode, but better in the second. It is difficult to catch everything Forrest Whittaker is saying at times.
Otherwise is it a watchable period piece about the standard sympathetic good-hearted gangster who everyone secretly wants to be their dad, on screen and off.
A Score to Settle (2019)
Keep walking - this is a really bad movie
I ended up skipping through the last half of the movie it was so bad. Don't waste your time on this 1¾ hour poor adaptation of theme of The Count of Monte Christo.
The plot holes keep coming one after another. He gets let out of prison early because he has a mysterious fatal illness that causes insomnia. The prison releases him to a taxi where he rings up a $175 tab to go to dig up his treasure. He then goes to stay in a luxury hotel where he pays cash. He wanders around carrying a oversized dufflebag with a few hundred grand in cash and some machine guns. It goes downhill from there.
This is a spoiler, but you'll thank me for it. The son, Joey, is an hallucination. He was a junkie who died a long time ago, and is the main reason for the revenge. By the time you discover this you don't care because you just aren't sympathetic towards anyone. You basically end up disliking everyone because the movie won't end soon enough.
The Good Cop (2018)
A good idea poorly executed
First off, the two main characters aren't all that engaging so you really don't care about them. TJ looks like an alternate version of John Oliver with his too big 80s style glasses constantly falling down his nose. Tony Senior is one of those people that when you first meet him seems like a nice guy, but after 20 minutes you realize that you cannot trust anything that comes out of his mouth, and that in reality he is a leech in all he does. By mid way through the series you begin to really dislike him. This type of person in real life is has to keep moving socially because people tire of him easily.
Although this has been mentioned before, it is really difficult for anyone to take seriously that a corrupt cop, who certainly hasn't changed his ways, would be accepted for his 'lovable personality' by the cops who aren't corrupt. In real life, honest LEOs despise dishonest LEOs more than the criminals they chase.
I'm not sure what happened in the beginning, but it starts out with Cora being a parole office and potential love interest, and then ends up with her suddenly being a police detective? Two entirely different jobs with entirely different skill sets that makes no sense whatsoever. It's like they learned about the NYPD from a cartoon or something.
The plots themselves aren't even worth criticizing.
All in all, you watch this if you have 10 hours to fill, not because it is good TV.