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Manifest (2018)
Bad writing/directing
The concept of the story is cool and the overall plot is good, but the detailed writing and directing is terrible. Characters get suddenly dramatic for no reason, there is no logic to the order some things happen. Like when Michaela gets pushed over the cliff and dislocates her shoulder...they make a big dramatic scene of Zeke pulling her up the cliff, they get to the top and a few minutes later he sets her shoulder. Why wouldn't you do that BEFORE you try to scale a cliff? So many examples of that throughout every episode. People demanded this show come back like it was the best show ever. Man, the bar has been lowered!!
Encounter (2018)
Another substandard Amazon Prime movie
I guess Amazon must get a deal on bad movies for filler. It wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen but it certainly did not meet the minimum standards for a good movie either. If you like bad, almost campy alien movies, it's okay but it takes itself more seriously than those. At the end, when the girl snapped her head at the camera, I laughed out loud...so much for a dramatic effect there. If my kids made it, I would think it was pretty good for them to put together...but my kids didn't make it.
Black Lightning (2018)
Has all the right pieces but it is a hot mess
The strong morals of the show at the beginning was good but then thrown out the window randomly, then reinforced again, then thrown away again...well, you get the picture. The scenes are strung together randomly...the 3rd season was awful. Thunder was hurt and dying in one scene, then fine, then dying again...who edits this crap? Terrible.
Could have been so much better.
Night Hunter (2018)
What a hot mess!
Lots of star power, interesting story...it should have been a great movie! But it wasn't. The scenes were completely fragmented to the point where the characters were not developed and inconsistent from scene to scene. Not sure if it was the directing or editing or both but it became an incomprehensible mess very quickly. Even the photography was awful...something I don't normally notice but in their attempt to be gritty, it became distracting and destroyed the possibility to become immersed in the story.
With a different director and crew, it would have worked, but this just fell apart.
Prityazhenie (2017)
Really bad
Not sure how so many people are giving this movie high ratings! The story is terribly fragmented and poorly written. The effects aren't bad but the production and editing is not good. Many of the events seem out of order and just don't make sense. The motivations behind their actions make no sense at all! I laughed at how bad so many parts were...that's really the only entertainment I got out of the movie. It reminded me a lot of the poorly done Chinese movies. They have a very long way to go!
Daredevil: Karen (2018)
Why?
I really get annoyed by episodes that seem to be a self indulgent side trip by a writer or director. Okay, develop Karen's character but this was way too much...and throughly depressing. Didn't like it at all...just a distraction.
Magnum P.I.: Sudden Death (2018)
Derivative and overly simplistic
Very disappointed in the writing on this show. The cast is good but the guest actors are just bad and the plot is laughably simple. Magnum finds an address based on a woman's first name and description if a red truck...seriously? He bumps into a woman at the coroner's office and she suddenly spills her life story to him? The writers are going to kill this show...put some effort into it before it's too late!