Reviews

I feel sorry for the reviewers who didn't enjoy this.

Guy Pearce is like a wine that just gets better with age. Right now, I'd watch anything with him in it.

I enjoyed the cinematography, the music and - heaven forbid - the story. Yes this is a slow burn and if you have the attention of a meerkat, give it a miss. But, if like me, you like it slow, it's worth the wait for the reveal at the end. For those who figured it out half way through, well done. Someone called the rest 'silliness' - well it wasn't in my book.

I enjoyed not overthinking the who and why and liked how the story played out.

I cannot understand the high scores. The script was diabolical. It was obvious in the first 10 minutes 'who dunnit'. No amount of shoot ups can make up for such a predictable and shallow plot.

Guy Richie (and Jason Statham) were definitely bored during lockdown to come up with this pile of poo.

Sreiously, don't bother!

Dear oh dear! Dear oh dear! Dear oh dear! Dear oh dear!

From the first annoying American accent on the main character we managed 15 minutes before turning it off. Old memes ad nothing new. Really? Come on Disney!

I have stopped writing reviews on IMDB due to the sheer quantity of films we watch.

"Can you get a vampire movie/" my wife asked. As there hadn't been any vampire movies for a long tie I decided to get this. Huge mistake.

This movie is a disaster in every way. The acting, the directing, the dialogue, the 'special' effects, the actors themselves - what a mess. How anyone could have come up with the money for this piece of garbage is a wonder.

Please - spare yourself a waste of 96 minutes and watch paint dry - it will be more interesting.

I was looking forward to watching this having heard good things. I tend to enjoy most films Ben Stiller appears in so why would this be any different?

The story gets going slowly but surely with little hints of what is going on. Rosamund Pyke looks her normal gorgeous self when we see her. About half way through I suddenly realised, "I'm only half way through! - This had better get better!" Despite a few twists and turns I was constantly thinking there are so many holes in the plot that you could make up your own ending. In fact, that's what it felt like at the end. The director couldn't decide on the best ending and just pulled an idea out the hat.

At the end, I looked at my wife and we both commented that we couldn't understand how on earth this is rated at 8.4. I've given it 2 to flag to those who want to hear, give it a miss!

I guess I enjoyed this film because of its theme - RADAR - rather than the cinematic dimensions. I worked in the BBC's engineering department many years ago and could identify the challenges of inventing something new with limited resources.

Having said that I thought Eddie Izzard did a really good job despite other people's criticism or his wobbly accent. His acting was believable and carried the passion that Robert Watson-Watt must have had to press through to an operational system. I liked the themes of teamwork, toxic relationships, camaraderie, not giving up, working to deadlines.

As another reviewer mentioned, there was good use of symbolism if you were open to see it. The weakest part for me was the relationship between Robert and his wife played by Laura Fraser. Seeing her again made me want to watch the wonderful 'A Knight's Tale' with Heath Ledger.

I guess the technology challenges added to the score for this. If you like that kind of thing this is a good film to watch.

The last film I saw Brosnan in - Love Punch - was almost as bad as Mama Mia. What was he thinking? Apart from Daniel Craig, I like him as the best 007. So, having read some of the reviews on IMDb I had very low expectations.

However, this is a good film if you like Brosnan as the secret agent. I don't understand why some reviewers don't get the story. It's pretty simple to follow even though the end is half expected. He is gritty enough (just) with the couple of scenes of him drinking not quite making the cut. The action scenes were quite good and Olga Kurylenko added the eye candy.

So, I disagree with the haters. This is definitely worth a watch.

Oh dear! Another Tom Cruise w*nk.

I had hoped for more but all you can say is the writers got stuck between Groundhog Day and The Matrix and then threw Mission Impossible into the mix. With very little imagination and a lot of special effects we are led to believe that Tom Cruise saves the world - yet again - with a little help from Emily Blunt. Of course, the special effects are OK but when you have seen one in this film you have seen them all.

Save this for a rainy Sunday and it won't be so bad. Whatever you do, don't save it for a special night like we did. It is predictable. It is not funny unless you have had a few pints. It is not satisfying.

Don't bother to buy the Blu-ray. 'How they made it' may be worse than the film itself.

What a pile of rubbish! This could have been so much better. It just seemed like a Tom Cruise mickey-take. Rubbish script writing, rubbish acting, rubbish directing. The script was out of a daytime TV show! Tom Cruise must be desperate! Rosamund Pike's American accent was embarrassing. I normally just score films on IMDb. This time I had to write to protest! I just don't understand how a film like this gets such a high score on IMDb.

The only bright spot was Robert Duvall - the rest was awful. Just to be clear - this was one of the worst films I have seen in the last 12 months.

I'm glad I am not the only one that thought this was the most boring - and worst of the Harry Potter franchise. That is dragged out over two hours made it worse. The three main characters had lost their spark and almost looked bored and tired themselves. There were some very dark undertones about death and had this been around when my kids were young, I would have hesitated to let them see this. Mind you I think they would have given up after the first half hour.

I guess there must have been budget constraints as there only fleeting appearances of the usual characters other than Harry and his friends and very little 'magic' and absolutely no fun.

The only redeeming element for me was seeing some scenery that I had been to in real life.

Very disappointing.