Eli Vang

I went in for what I expected to have been an action film and what I got was a profoundly moving film that challenged me to consider the ways I live my life and make choices. I laughed out loud. I ugly cried. I felt healed from familial trauma.

A very anti-climactic end to what could have been a really cool franchise. Throughout the prior movies, we’ve anticipated the magical showdown that would decide the fate of the world, and the way our group of friends would find a way to make it out in one piece. However, this isn’t what happened. Poorly executed and poorly utilized characters. Don’t bother watching this film, just sit and imagine stuff

Heartfelt and sweet. Perfect for a rainy day in or when you need to be inspired by a beautiful story (which is all the time).

I went in for what I expected to have been an action film and what I got was a profoundly moving film that challenged me to consider the ways I live my life and make choices. I laughed out loud. I ugly cried. I felt healed from familial trauma.

Perhaps one of the best shows that Netflix has had to offer in a long time. With helpful and candid conversations around sexuality, this show is both absurd and informative. However, let it be known that this series does have a lot of nudity, so if that's a turn off, you know it know. HOWEVER. Season 3 was weird. LOL what was that?

*people who loved this film are really out here saying that those who hated it don't understand the film. Well, that's rather disingenuous because I do understand the film and I still hate it.* The writing team really asked, "what are all the themes that people love in a story?" and then decided to just shove them all into this film without regard for if it would work well. In this film, there were too many ideas and thoughts that hinted at even the most basic of plot movement, but there was no commitment to make it happen meaningfully. We are left utterly unsure of what just happened and feel as though we had just been robbed of the our most precious non-renewable resource: time. This film is a mess, to put it nicely. This film starts out promisingly, we have our protagonist, the underdog troublemaker of the village who wants to prove himself. And as such, we think that this is going to be a hero's journey story. This is not it because as soon as we learn the protagonist's desire to be accepted by the village, we enter into another slew of events that feel misplaced and meaningless until the end without it ever coming back to the original premise. The character development is weak and we find it excruciatingly difficult to ever care about why anyone is here. Anyways, we find out that Henry Lau's character is a long lost prince from some witch who lives in a mythical forest, but then nothing else is done with this reveal. He's basically the chosen one and yet this amounts to nothing in the story of this film. Also, the other male protagonist is out to kill the king's advisor, but makes NO attempt to hide it. Like dude, we get it but try a bit. Oh. And the only female characters who (somewhat) matter die, so there's that, too. Save your time and watch something else.