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The Punisher (2017)
Jigsaw what a joke
Punisher was great but Billy Russo as jigsaw what a joke. Absolutely kill the concept of a character. The new characters are bad but jigsaw. I think it ruins every part of the series. Frank ruined his face deliberately. And now apparently that means a couple of scars and modelesque face. Terrible. Well done Netflix for utterly wrecking a character so much pitentialsilittle in return.
Black Sails: XXXVIII. (2017)
Pointless
First off enjoyed this as was a different idea using the fictional characters alongside the real historical ones. I can accept a certain amount of adaptation but the way this has progressed has just been a complete rewrite. Adapting the odd death or narrative is fair enough but the way this has progressed has become tedious.
I am now just glad it's over, sadly a good opportunity was missed. I mean Woodes Rogers died as governor of Nassau at the age of 53. Just shows the utter drivel this became.
Something Wicked (2014)
I want my time back
The best part of the film was the end credits, as it meant the film was finished. I cannot even sum up the energy to describe this tedious offering. The characters were really annoying, the twists were totally ridiculous. there that's all it deserves.
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Here is an example annoying punchable boyfriend wants to get his own back on the parents for not letting him marry extremely irritating girlfriend. I know, he has a plan, he will risk death or serious injury by reversing into a moving train. That sums up the waste of celluloid this was.
Horror, yeah right
Turn (2014)
Historically flawed and the same old clichés
Hooray another flawed drama about the American Revolution. As another poster pointed out The Queens Rangers were not a mercenary unit. Robert Rogers raised the unit, this time in New York (mostly from Loyalists living in Westchester and Long Island), from western Connecticut, and with men from the Queen's Loyal Virginia Regiment. The new unit was named in honour of Queen Charlotte the wife of King George the Third. It first assembled on Staten Island in August 1776 and grew to 937 officers and men organised into eleven companies of about thirty men each and an additional five troops of cavalry. Later commanded by John Graves Simcoe, but apparently he is nothing to do with them. And still a regiment in the Canadian Army.
But why stop there after watching the second episode it is apparently the "Royal Army". It is not that hard to research it has never been the Royal Army as that was the first branch of Armed Forces to rebel in The English Civil War. It is why there is a Royal Navy and now a Royal Air force but never a Royal Army as the Army has never received that title for that reason.
But shock horror, the cliché continued the British officers were all brutish oafs, what a surprise was waiting for one to be like a Disney villain and it wasn't long before that happened. It was like Mel "I hate the British and have no intention to play any film with a modicum of historical realism" Gibson was at the helm.
Can see this being a typical biased show that paints its own version of the truth and tweaks realism and factual accuracy when it doesn't make good television. Two episodes in and its living up to it.
I waited to see how the second episode progressed and as above it was more of the same.
In the first episode the British Major is given some highly detailed intelligence. And this results in a planned attack. Very good then obviously that information would be kept secret only to a few highly privileged individual officers. Apparently not, it is to be shared over dinner with a local magistrate and his son. But obviously it would be in code so a kit would be needed this kit would be hidden and concealed, or alternatively lying on a desk with the message. Absolute drivel.
But the son a farmer breaks the code, and gives it to the rebels who ambush them. So that's OK as the British Major only has to think who did I tell. Oh yes the magistrate and his son that means it must have been one of them. But no he seems to just forget this and the series plods on. It's realism stretched further as two villains burn down the farmers shed in V for Vendetta masks.
The question should always be in The American War of Independence why did Cornwallis surrender when there were redcoats on board ships on the coast ready to land. Conspiracy theory anyone.
He Who Dares (2014)
Oh dear
I watched this after reading a few reviews and the comparisons to Who Dares Wins etc. What I was expecting, after looking at the cover. Which features S.A.S men abseiling down from a Russian Hind helicopter for some reason. Was an action packed film where the SAS overcome the terrorists using superior skills and tactics. Showing why they are the elite of Britain's armed services along with the S.B.S. I wasn't expecting the best film in the world brilliantly acted just a no brain action romp.
The lead villain is awesome a sadistic psycho played superbly, for me the highlight of the film. The plots OK. But then we have the S.A.S portrayed as inept, under equipped, ill disciplined morons. They have a massive knack in this film of walking into the most obvious ambushes. Looking as if they learnt soldiering from "Call of Duty" rather than being a highly trained elite force. They bumble along getting wiped out as they go.
That's pretty much the film. The end is predictable and along the way we have a good dose of clichés. For example the lead cop is an ex soldier who was discharged from the army while our hero, complete with "Action Man" beard joins the S.A.S.
It's worth a watch just for the villain other than that it was time spent I can never get back.