David Michaels

It started out very strong. Acting and writing were very good and engaging. Plausible situations. One would think a hit man for hire to be ruthless and a social path. And it was written as such. Then the writers thought that parallel family disintegration plot lines would work here. One minute eliminating anyone who saw his face, the next, sobbing for his family. I didn't buy it at the end. I don't think hit men are normal people. Held me for 8 episodes then began loosing me at 9 and 10.

I'm pretty sure this is a remake of a Japanese Samurai film from the late 50's or early 60's...possibly the 47 Ronin? Though I haven't seen that film in over 40 years. And when are film makers going to abandon the spin move in sword fighting? SMH.

I love Destiny...but I'm disappointed in this rehash of the Destiny 1 moon. Sure it has a better graphics, but essentially it's the same moon map. The adds spawn in the same places and the moon currency - helium coils - spawn in the same places. I'm just diving in to Shadowkeep and they did say we were going back to the moon, but I guess I expected something new here. Well we'll see. Hope it get better.

Loved the first movie. Re-watched it several times and still love it. I doubt I'll ever watch this again. Gal Gadot and Chris Pine were in an entirely different movie than the rest of the cast. Terrible over the top acting and not too subtle mission to-pound-morality-into-my-eyeballs-least-I-fail-to-understand! Felt like a children's cautionary tale than the 1st movies' grittier depictions. The non lead actors and moral situations were handled ham-fisted and were disposable like this movie. It could have been so much better.

I liked the visual attention to details here. But...The dialog seems slow and stilted. As though they were trying to stretch out the scenes. The animated versions of these Rebels characters were much less wooden. And Sabine as an apprentice Jedi? Why? More "Girl Power"? Ashoka Tano is the most badass character in SW IMO. Her character arc in the series is one of the most fleshed out characters in Star Wars besides Luke Skywalker. The last few episodes of The Clones Wars was some of the best story telling in the franchise. Hope it turns into that.

Did you like Kristen Wiig's dopey character in Wonder Woman 1984? You know, the lonely, clumsy museum employee with a good heart who can't do anything right. Well you're in luck. Oscar Isaacs is (forced, I'm guessing) to duplicate it in MCU-ish. Mush in some Venom 2 meets Abbott and Costello meets the Curse of the Mummy and your reward is complete. Unique, but cringe opening scene and Ethan Hawk aside, I didn't find much that wasn't a bumbling scramble trope fest. Ethan Hawk's character is the only interesting element here. 2 stars for the 'Where am I?' Teleportation.