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I don’t know where Rotten Tomato and other reviewers get their notion this isn’t a good movie. 28% approval rating? They’re nuts. It’s a well written, well acted situation romance that’s much better than the usual cookie-cutter one. It’s right up there in quality with any Tom Hanks ever did. It’s just plain nice to watch a movie once in awhile sans guns, blood and violence, fake ninja moves, passengers crawling impossibly unhurt and unfazed from extreme car wrecks, unrealistic “transformers”, space wars, or awful horror movies.

We were surprised to see some big name stars in this. It’s a 2-star flick. I hated the predominance of scenes where if someone is simply walking more than a few feet it was in slow-motion. No wonder it’s a full 2 hour movie… an hour 45 too long. The acting wasn’t all that bad, but the directing and screenwriting is deplorable, and some scenes if not most are as if they made them up on the fly; Highly unrealistic fights, weapon and gun battles, and unbelievable Kung-fu maneuvers, in slow motion of course… but isn’t that par for the course in any film with Asian fight styles. It typifies what many would deem a “stupid” movie, and the few attempts at humor seemed slapstick and weren’t funny. I don’t know which is more pathetic… the movie or the fact that we hung around to see the end, which I managed to wake up in time to see.

It’s gone to the pits. It’s not the contestants. Although we love Derek, he’s just not Len. Mostly, the host is absolutely horrid and should’ve stuck with modeling, if she could even do that anymore. The getups she wears, it’s so very hard to watch!! If only there was anything else on Monday evenings! If the producers can’t find a Tom level host, they’d be better off cancelling this otherwise legendary but currently ruined program.

It had Al in it. And Holly. But why they chose to do this movie we can’t fathom. We tolerated it for an hour hoping for some redeeming story change, but gave up, disgusted with the time stolen from our evening. And sadly disgusted that we can no longer trust that a movie with Al Pacino in it will be entertaining. The movie is depressing, plodding, and after an hour going nowhere. I thought my wife was going to throw something at me if I didn’t mercifully shut Netflix off. Watching more incessant media coverage of the Covid19 situation was more enticing than continuing this horrid movie. Then there’s the scene on the veterinarian’s operating table, with detailed narration of the operation by the vet, as if we’re supposed to be galleried students. What were the producers, writers, and director thinking there?