Matthew Freeman

Is it cliché? Yes. Is it predictable? Yes. Is it one of the best movies I've ever seen set in medieval England? Also yes. The first time I saw it my dad just put it on as background noise but I got hooked and every time I saw it on TV I watched it. I've seen it a dozen times and I'll watch it a dozen more

I wish I could have my 2 hours back. The story was bad, the characters were bad, and the resolution was bad. The best parts of this movie are the CGI robots. The entire first act was introducing us to the characters and world we don't understand. It feels like we need a whole movie just to actually understand the relationship between robots and humans. The first 30 minutes was just back story that seems like it would have made a better movie than the one we're left watching.

I went into this movie hoping for a war movie. It was not that but I could look past that if the story being told was any good. We have a war without context, a main character making bad decisions one after another, and an ending that is unbelievably unsatisfying. -SPOILERS- It feels like the bad guys win. Without context we have no reason to support one side or the other but overthrowing the US government by killing the president seems like something the bad guys would do. If we were given any background to the contrary it would be easier to support the characters we follow. Instead we're left to guess what's happening while we watch a group of journalists escort a child through a war zone and drop like flies because of it. By the end I had no sympathy for the last journalist to die because she put herself in that position repeatedly and cost other people their lives and it finally caught up to her. At the end there's no resolution we're just left to feel sympathy for horrible people and it failed because they couldn't give me a reason to care about any of the characters.