Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
The Accountant 2 (2025)
The Accoun2ant
This movie picks up somewhat where the last one left off, the brothers are scattered and it's 8 years after they were together from the first movie according to the timeline. And without giving anything away there's a pretty good plot in this movie, and everything that you liked about the first one you'll love in this one. Honestly I have absolutely no complaints about this movie, it's astonishing that so few movies can deliver this level of genuine understanding about why people saw the first one and what we wanted to see out of a sequel.
10/10 for me this was a complete win, great cast, great plot, fantastic acting, directing, fighting and gunplay were all top notch. Can't wait for the 3rd one.
Suits LA (2025)
Fail LA
You seriously tried to recreate the original suits with other people? Are you kidding me? And to do it in such a tacky way. You literally even made the offices look the same. This isn't just a regular fail this is a colossal fail. Whoever came up with this premise should know one thing, the prime reason why the original suits worked is because OF THE CAST.
Do you know how many of the cast from the original suits you have here? That's right, 0. Just about the same amount as your ratings are going to be after watching this show. Now I see a few people who did well in some shows, but they are absolutely not the right fit for this kind of atmosphere. And more importantly I don't care about any of them. The whole point of the first episode is to make the audience care about a few people so they can emotionally invest in them. You blew it.
3/10 nice try, absolutely not the way to go.
Shifting Gears (2025)
Sad Realization
So I watched a good deal of shows with both Tim Allen and Kat Dennings, and I used to be under the impression that they were pretty good actors, and then I got to watch this show. And suddenly realized that they really aren't. They've been 1 character(themselves) for every single show they've ever been in, and the writing and cast has carried them. And if you don't believe me rewatch the things they were in. They're just the same people, doing exactly the same things, only in a different show.
So why is this an issue? Because when you put 2 people, that have no inherent acting chops, are basically reading lines, have no real ability to formulate chemistry on screen together. What you get is a pretty boring show that's gonna bomb. Add in the fact that they don't have great writers like they did for their respective good comedy shows and you have a 1 season at best show.
5/10 No real acting, bland writing, I'd be amazed if this got past 1 season.
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)
True Adaptation
I'm extremely happy with how this series was made. Not only have they found a way to make it realistic, but they've also found a way to make the story so precise that it could have easily happened in reality. One of the few adaptations I can say is wonderful. The cast and locations are breathtaking in their authenticity.
I appreciate the fact that they changed the story just enough to make it more feasible, as compared to random. The issue with the original was always there were too many things that had to align just right for it to work. That's not the case with this series, they made it very believable.
!0/10 well done, truly fantastic work.
Fire Country (2022)
Good cast/Bad Writer
So, I've put off doing a review about this show because I really REALLY like the cast, and the rest of it was pretty bad, so I figured after season 1 they would do a proper rewrite, and then season 2 rolled around and still nothing. So here we are at the mid break of season 3. And now I'm going to do a proper review.
This show had all the chances in the world to be a good show, so why isn't it? Well you see while it has an amazing cast and crew, what it doesn't have is any good writers at all. What it has is the guy who writes boring, middle of the road stuff like greys anatomy(the later seasons) and madam secretary(the later seasons). Basically if you want to fall asleep to bad dialog that sounds like it was written in high school by a 15 year old who doesn't quite understand how wit, banters, or elevated conversation works, this is the guy for you.
So he took this show, with amazing actors and a great premise and murdered it with the most mundane conversation known to man. Nothing is interesting, nothing is riveting, nothing is exciting, because it all sounds like it was written on a napkin at recess.
5/10 great cast, great crew, god awful writer. Please I beg of you, replace him with someone who knows how to write, and watch this show soar to the heights it belongs.
Dexter: Original Sin: Miami Vice (2024)
Mistakes Abound
Ok, in the first episode you had some stuff that didn't exist back when this was supposedly taking place, but I let it go because it was just a small fluke, this time I'm not letting it go. In this episode there are not 1 but 2 scenes where someone is fist bumping, the ONLY people who would know that back then are people who are into sports, which has been shown repeatedly to not be the case with Dexter. So every time you make a scene where Dexter is fist bumping someone, what you're doing is sticking a gesture in that people from right now would recognize, but from back then would never have done. Please for the love of god, fix that.
Dexter: Original Sin (2024)
Chip off the old block
So far this is off to a roaring start. I'm a huge fan of the original show. This show is making great strides to make everything line up. And so far they really have with a few notable exceptions like the technology and CSI techniques they were using at a time when they didn't actually exist. However the show itself is just amazing. The feel, the look the sound, everything is lining up pretty great.
I think they nailed the characters really well, which is a huge thing when you're trying to follow up such a monster success. The other thing that I noticed which a lot of people probably missed is that they made an extremely wise choice by starting off with Dexter surviving being shot. This leaves an opening for sequels later on when this show does really well.
So far 10/10 I expect great things from this show.
Gladiator II (2024)
Gladiator..ish
So I watched the first Gladiator, and have re-watched it many times since. And I came into this movie thinking maybe they have a different take, maybe they did a lot of things that were outlandish but made sense after the success of the first one right? I was dead wrong. Here's the breakdown of the movie.
Movie starts, and for about 80% of the time, what you have is a redo of the original sequences with the new Gladiator. Now, I'd like to point out that they didn't do them better, or different, or change them. All they did was do them again. So already it's a complete failure, because now you have a movie that's suppose to be a sequel but instead is the first movie with a different actor(who was not better).
Now, in midst of this, you still have flashbacks to the original, compounding the tragedy that is this script. And for some god forsaken reason they felt the need to kill all the original characters, as if it was their mission that failed. And then there's Denzel. The only thing he didn't do was try to sell drugs to someone, it was like Training Day part Roman Empire.
6/10 mediocre casting, copy and paste script, Denzel being Denzel, nothing to add to the original. Shockingly somehow this made it past the cutting room floor.
Tulsa King (2022)
Could be so much better
I like this show, I really do, I think it has great bones and good potential. The cast is amazing, the plot and the delivery is fantastic but there's something that's killing this show outright, Stallone.
Now I want to be clear, it's not because he's a bad actor, because he's not, he's pretty good actually. It's for a completely different reason. He's entirely unbelievable in this. The combination of being 78 years old, and jacked up on steroids like he's an olympic cheater is just horrible. Because the problem is his movements are entirely animatronic. So it makes him seem like he's in a costume where he has no range of motion but pretends he does. And for the sake of the show. They keep up this charade and it's just sad.
I know he made this show, and I know it was his idea, and it was a great one, but the further along this show goes the more obvious it becomes that he was just a mistake as a cast member, she should have just been an executive producer and left it at that.
5/10 Stallone will singlehandedly kill this show, the best thing that can happen to it, is if he gets wacked and someone in his crew replaces him.
Borderlands (2024)
PG-13 killed it
So right up front I'm HUGE borderlands game fan. Always have been. Now with that in mind I came in with certain expectations. And I'm going to give you an honest review.
First the casting, I thought it would be dreadful, but to my surprise even though it wasn't the best casting, the actors did an amazing job playing their respective characters. Having said that the ones I would change out are Tina, Moxie, and Roland. They all did their thing, and it was good for them no doubt, but sadly they were not the right casting for those particular roles.
And here's how you can tell. Tina in this movie is a kind of lost girl with explosives, but you get this sense that she kind of needs protecting, and in the game it was completely the opposite. Even the bandits wouldn't mess with her because she was so wildly deranged. That insanity is her defining trait, not having it killed the character. Moxie was more sexy than badass in the game, in the movie the sexiness took a huge backseat and the problem with that is that it IS her personality. You can't just change that in a character. Which brings us to Roland, I love Kevin Hart. And he did a great job portraying Roland, but here's the thing Roland was a completely different physique and completely different personality in the games. He was way more serious, and that's not Kevin's forte, of course it's not, he's a comedian. So like I said, those are just bad casting choices.
Now onto the actual movie, the story was... well not the version of the story we had in the games, which is weird because you know the established fanbase wants that story right? It doesn't have to be the same exact one but it has to be close and this one wasn't it. Now even all of this I can forgive, but what I can't forgive is the PG-13 garbage. Borderlands games are a hardcore rated R+ genre, you absolutely can't change it to PG-13, gut the script to have stupid lines that don't go at all with the scenes and expect anyone to like it. It doesn't work.
6/10 Great acting, mediocre casting/plot, terrible writing. PG-13 rating sunk it.
The Bear (2022)
Pressure
The name of this show should be pressure, because from start to finish this is a master class in how to get PTSD as a chef. It makes you feel every second of it too, so it's not just some people being stressed out, you feel stressed out after watching this show, it's THAT intense. It really takes you into the world of being a chef and being in the kitchen when you're trying to accomplish an unattainable level of skill but everything around you is going wrong. The noise, the fire, the pain, you can see the damage spilling out both literally and figuratively. And it doesn't slow down, it just keeps building until it boils over.
10/10 This show is a testament of how intense being in the kitchen can be.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Beautifully Executed
I haven't seen a movie so well put together in a while, it did everything right and I do mean everything. At no point did I ever think "I wanna stop and do something else". Just a fully engaging experience, and it really filled in all the holes that fury road left behind. So you basically come out of the experience understanding both movies better.
The way it's put together is there are five chapters, and each stage of the movie is in a different chapter. The evolution of it is seamless because it's put together that way. So you don't really have to cut forward, it gives you a full understanding of where that time went.
Sullivan's Crossing (2023)
Just Lame
If you like Virgin River and Sullivan's Crossing I feel truly bad for you. Not because the concept is bad, but because the writing is. This couldn't have been written worse by anyone. And I do mean anyone. I feel like some English teacher in middle school told his students to write a short story and someone wrote this and they turned it into a really boring series. Nothing about it is believable from the standpoint of ambition, love, family, friends, reality. There are so many things wrong with this that it almost feels like it was written before the internet, and then adapted after the internet but without telling the writers that it should be adapted.
3/10 horrible writing.
The Idea of You (2024)
No one does Romances like Anne
Anne Hathaway has always been pure magic in romances. She just knows how they feel and knows how to express it perfectly. The story wasn't bad, it was actually pretty believable. There was very little negativity in this movie and tons of joy and happiness which is a welcome segue from the formulaic romances where girl meets guy, girl falls for guy, guy does something that ruins it, girl comes back to guy. So thank you for that, a little originally is very welcome. Also there's a nice element of realism when it comes to how relationships get demolished by fame, and the real harm and hardship that comes from being in the lime light.
9/10 great romance movie, definitely worth a watch.
Married with Children (1987)
The Best Comedy Show
This show was made at a time when people could speak their mind and everyone understood it was for fun and entertainment. It was hilarious in all the right ways, it made fun of all the politically correct issues in the best way possible, head on!
This is a family that lives in the Chicago area in the early 90s. They go at it about everything from sexism, racism, discrimination, ageism, and any other ism you can think of. They make fun of everything because it's funny. They don't take anything seriously, and most of all they don't take themselves seriously. They are perfectly happy to admit they are at the lowest end of that spectrum.
The wit and banter in this show is legendary. Anyone who doesn't find the humor in this needs to check if they still have a pulse.
10/10 just pure magic on the screen. They don't make gems like this anymore.
Monkey Man (2024)
Please Just Stop
This movie could have been great, the story was good, the action was good, the acting was good. So why 3? Because it's unwatchable. The shaky cams just make it a bunch of stuff you can't see, it looks great from the in frame things, but there's so much jarring camera throwing that it might as well not even be a movie, just a ping pong game with my eyeballs.
Whoever keeps making movies like this, please know that I will never give your movies a good review, EVER. And the reason is because you don't have the foresight to understand that your movie has turned into a pile of garbage by the simple action of horrible camerawork.
3/10 yet another movie ruined by horrid camerawork.
A Nice Girl Like You (2020)
A nice prude like you
So let's start this off on the positives. I'm a big fan of Lucy Hale, and she and actually a good deal of the cast did some pretty good acting in this movie, so kudos to them for that.
And that's about it. Everything else was bad. Let's start with why this movie would never work. It's not relatable, how many people know a 34 year old prude that's deathly against porn past the year 2010? But let's even go one step further and how many people think that someone in this day and age has never seen porn, doesn't know anything about it, and thinks that people who look at it are perverts? The answer, No one.
There isn't a person alive that can relate to how out of touch this plot is. Maybe if this movie took place before the internet and before everyone and their mother knew everything about porn. But now? Nope, sorry. The premise is a complete failure, because it's non-believable. And if the premise fails, the entire movie turns into a really bad circus act where people have to pretend that they live in the 1800's where everyone is judged by their favorite book, and women speak as if it was some how perverted that a woman should have sex and know things about sex.
2/10, good acting but everything else is completely out of touch with reality and would never happen.
Secrets of the Hells Angels (2024)
Woefully Incorrect
Now I love seeing a good biker series as much as the next guy. However the issue with this series is that it's just wrong. Right from the start they tagline it as "Hells Angels are the biggest and baddest biker gang too ever live." 100% wrong. To date the Hells Angels have around 2,300 patched members. The Vagos have over 4,000. Not only are they just as violent and dangerous as the Hells Angels, but by all accounts far more so. So as where the stories in this series are relatively true, their depiction of the standing of this gang is not. And that's a huge distinction because the Vagos was also main chaptered in California. Which means when they keep talking about, "The Hells Angels had a blood fued with the Mongrels because they owned California." That's a complete lie, they didn't own anything except in their hopes and dreams.
3/10 don't let the hype become your reality when making a real series.
Fallout (2024)
Apocalyptically Sound
I've never been a particular fan of the Fallout games. However this series is fire. The acting, the story, the aesthetic, everything about it is just spot on. And they took no liberties with making it some political statement. They made it for the purity of the series. And it really shows.
So this is a story about a post nuclear world, there are a few factions worth mentioning, the vaulters would be the people who were in the vault during the blast. The ghouls are the people who were not in the vault but through chemical intervention basically survived the blast and live on turning into a form of zombie without the chemicals they need to keep them alive. And everyone else is some kind of faction of human trying to perfect their version of what the new world should be. I'm not going to get into more details than that because of spoilers, but this is a MUST watch.
10/10 everything was perfect for what this show is. We need more like this.
Tracker (2024)
Bland
I don't know, maybe my bar's set too high. But this show seems super bland to me. Like it has characters that are kind of meh. The acting isn't bad or anything, but like as soon as an episode starts I can't wait for it to end. It's just not engaging at all. I wish there was something interesting about this show but I just don't see it.
There's a guy who had family drama, he has some lesbian couple that makes up half of his info team, some hacker guy who helps him with his info and some lawyer that helps him with his cases. If you've ever wondered what the plot is? I honestly can't tell you, because as far as I can see there isn't one. He just chases bounties around and calls himself a "rewardist", which is just an unoriginal weird way of saying "bounty tracker".
5/10, boring.
In Treatment (2008)
Profoundly Wrong
As someone who has spent a good deal of time studying and practicing therapy it baffles me why that this show was done in such a completely incorrect and crude manner. The therapist here is not only practicing the worst type of therapy imaginable but it's almost like they just wanted to focus on the drama aspect of every session and never on the true therapy and the healing aspects of it.
You can tell from start to finish that he doesn't know what he's doing. In an episode someone described him as being "the best"
which I found laughable. Because after watching this trainwreck the only thing I can conclude with absolute certainty he was the best at, is agitating the situations and maneuvering people who would be relatively easy to guide to a healthy solution into an awful situation where they don't end up getting treatment, instead he just lets them self-destruct with no regard for the outcome.
3/10 absolute rubbish, good acting, terrible directing and dialog, and whoever was there to guide the realism aspect needs to be fired.
Road House (2024)
Boat House
Ok back me up here, if they had simply changed the name from Road House to Boat House.. this movie could have been perfectly fine. It's not great or anything, but it's ok, as long as you don't call it Road House. If on the other hand you make the lethal mistake of calling it Road House, you've ruined an ok movie by pitting it against an amazing movie. And now you've got problems.
This is a movie that has almost nothing in common with the original Road House, I mean the main thing that everyone should immediately pay attention to, is that the Road House in the movie isn't even a house, it's a big teepee. And that should be the first of many, MANY, hints that this movie has about as much to do with a Road House, as Nascar.
I would love to bore you with the plot, but it's so actually none sensical that it's laughable. So instead, for anyone who wants to watch this movie, and for anyone who keeps thinking remakes are a good idea. Just stop, they aren't. Leave the good movies alone, and give new ones a different title.
6/10 mediocre acting, decent fighting, god awful plot and laughable banter.
The Gentlemen (2024)
The Proper Criminal
This was done in Guy Ritchie's favorite style and writing. Everything is crisp, clean and you don't see most of it coming. He's of course included his favorites, royals, gypsies, meth dealers, weed dealers, butchers, and assassins. And that's just the start, he can easily turn this into a giant series that spawns for decades if he wanted to. Whatever you do, don't let Guy Ritchie take a backseat on the writing. His influence can be felt in every single scene in the movie. Don't you dare change this formula, it's brilliant and it shows.
The cast is perfectly hand picked, I couldn't have picked them better myself. Everything just works, and when a good series comes together like this it's high art. You rarely see it, but when you do, you get another game of thrones on your hands.
10/10 spectacular, don't you dare cancel this series!
La passion de Dodin Bouffant (2023)
A Masterclass in Cooking
This movie is what happens when you love something so dearly that words don't do it justice. If I had to guess I imagine this is a script written by a chef for chefs. It's so beautiful in both concept and execution it's truly a wonder. And having said that the only people that will truly appreciate this movie are chefs, I can't imagine anyone else having an appreciation for this sort of movie. However if you are a chef, or love cooking to this degree this movie is a MUST! I sat through this movie loving every second of it. I imagine when technology progresses far enough and we can actually smell and taste our movies this movie will be the best ever made.
10/10 this movie makes my heart and stomach happy.
Damsel (2024)
Damsel Washington becomes Elodinaris Targaryen
So this is a cute little story of betrayal and survival. Starting our Damsel Elodie, who comes from a barren kingdom much in need of supplies or they might not survive the winter. Enter the evil kingdom, where everything seems sunshine and roses until it is all revealed to be born of a giant lie. I'll let you discover what happens from there, but the punchline is this is an entertaining survival tale. A lot of clever maneuvering and close calls. It's not very complicated in terms of plot, but it's decent delivery. And if you just turn your mind off and enjoy it, it's worth the watch.
8/10 some good ol' fashioned dragon fun.