Reviews

THIS! YES! The police occupation still has a very long way to go in its training and response to our nation's mental health crisis, but it's great to see the SAPD taking baby steps in the right direction. It's okay to care and to feel another's pain, and we owe it to the citizens of the communities we "serve and protect" to do better. And we must always remember that "serve" comes first. If we are unwilling or unable to do that, we need to find other lines of work that don't require empathy and compassion.

If you need a little mindless diversion, this show might provide it. It was okay-very average. If you want a history lesson, you're looking in the wrong place.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, National Treasure, Mission Impossible - and Antonio Banderas being Antonio Banderas. Doesn't anyone have any new ideas? Some fun moments here and there, but nothing new. 2.5 stars.

I expected to like this movie. I did not. It is the slowest, most excruciatingly boring movie I have ever seen in my life. Watch only as a cure for insomnia.

Season One was very good, and Season Two was okay. But the third season went completely off the rails-just a bunch of sociopaths killing each other. The "good" guys and gals were only slightly less evil than the "bad" ones. It's inherently difficult to root for criminals-murderers at that.

Horribly boring and unrealistic. Annoying characters. By the halfway point, I was rooting for the bad guy. Not really horror and hardly a "thriller." Can't recommend this snoozer.

I know this is the type of movie that's supposed to be a bit slow, but this one was entirely too slow and left me wanting. It wasn't a complete waste of time, but I can't really recommend it either. I wish I'd spent that hour and a half with a good book. My bad.

This series was okay. The acting was mostly good, and the story was compelling enough to keep watching. However, there was more disbelief than I could suspend. And the writing got really loose in the second half. Still, I'm not sorry I watched it. It's better than a lot of shows we waste time on these days. Now-back to my books.

I gave up after twenty-five minutes of excruciating boredom. Awful acting. Awful directing. Horribly unrealistic. And a main character for whom I couldn't muster much sympathy. I just couldn't waste any more time waiting to see if it got better. The Alberta scenery was the only bright spot, but not even the Canadian Rockies were enough to keep me watching.

To be frank, the movie was quite tedious to start but finished strongly. There were no big surprises, but the performances were strong. Despite the slow start, it was an entertaining movie, but better editing could have made it great. (Fair warning: Some graphic gore!)

If you have read the Longmire series of novels, you're likely to be disappointed. To be clear, the series is a LOT different. I'm sure that's not a big surprise to any reader, but this series is a stand-alone that uses elements of the books. The stories and the overarching threads that hold them together are only loosely based on the books. That said, I watched all episodes before reading any of the books, and now-after reading all the novels to date-I'm rewatching the series. This has enabled me to enjoy the book series and the TV series each in its own right. The TV writers did the best they could to create a compelling series in their medium, and they mostly succeeded. I'm just glad that I watched the TV series first. I wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much if I'd been a faithful reader of the books first. If you've read the books and are considering the TV show, go ahead and watch it. I certainly recommend it. But go into it with realistic expectations. A TV show isn't a book, and even the best made-for-TV adaptation can never hold up to quality novels. Again, this show is "based on" the Walt Longmire stories and characters, but it's a great deal different. The New Mexico shooting locations are just the start of it.

Interesting. Definitely worth watching for William Shatner and Star Trek fans. But a little slow and anticlimactic, and somewhat disappointing overall. Once is enough.

This story wasn't compelling. It was painfully slow, difficult to finish, and not really very scary. I wasn't sure that I would make it out alive. I can't recommend it.

First season was better than expected. Second season was pretty bad-tough to finish. A third season would have ruined it entirely. Thankfully they put it out of its misery. Overall: average.

A movie with three Oscar-winning actors can't miss, right? Wrong! Very disappointing movie. Poor writing. Poor directing. And not the best acting. In particular, Rami Malek was awful. Then again, his character stunk, and one aspect of the plot that involved his character was completely unbelievable. I won't ever suffer through this movie again, and I certainly can't recommend it.

Don't waste your time on this codswallop. A conspiracy of this magnitude could never survive a century.

Not altogether awful, but brutally slow. Not a long movie-it just seemed that way. It had some potential but wasn't executed well. Very dark, but life is like that sometimes. Not sorry I watched it but won't watch it again.

I can deal with suspending disbelief to a reasonable degree, but this story is wholly implausible-and brutally slow for an "action" movie. It took me three tries to finish it, and I'm ashamed that I did. Two big thumbs down!

Across the board (writing, directing, acting, continuity) this movie is pretty bad, and it requires way too much suspension of disbelief. Nevertheless, I forced myself to stick with it till the end. Bad decision.