Johnnie Welborn, Jr.

Beyond boring... Might this be "cerebral", perhaps, after a healthy dose of LSD? It's certainly not erotica nor is it chilling. This is one of those movies that tries to be something it's not and, much like the beauty of our star's skin, it's superficial at best. Over my head? Hardly... The underlying messages presented in the movie are obvious but the "artsy" presentation appears sophomoric. British productions are usually far better but perhaps they imported help from the kids in Hollywood for this one... smh Garbage like this is why I will soon be leaving Netflix for good. One would think I'd learn by now but one always hopes they'll eventually license better content. As for the opinions of movie critics, why should I care? Their opinion matters to me why...? Most write and speak from the incorrect orifice in the first place and are hardly better than the vast majority of writers/producers in movies today. It is sad that society believes we need a critic to tell us what we will like or not... pffft...

This is not a movie that any intelligent adult will enjoy unless that individual is exceptionally gullible. In fact, this is one of those scripts that would have made excellent bird cage lining. If a writer is going to write about a particular period, would it not behoove the aforementioned writer to actually research that period? The watered down soap opera that began early in the script should have been a distinct sign that, yet again, there is zero original thinking and certainly no intelligence in Hollywood. This is the best that Netflix can offer?

A b-grade flick at best, with really nothing original in its writing. If I wanted to watch "remixed" movies, I'd simply watch the originals instead of something like this, for the vast majority of the plot was stolen from a variety of other movies that were actually enjoyable to watch. The acting is so mechanical that there was never much hope for any of the cast to save this piece of dung. My suggestion? Close the Hollywood studios, can the writers that have less imagination than most high school drama clubs and buy into intelligent foreign films, for this was simply another cookie-cutter, paint-by-numbers waste of time.

Incredibly boring, predictable and very difficult to believe. The story had such excellent potential, yet I was shaking my head in disbelief halfway through the second episode. The characters are hardly believable, with the exception of Renée Zellweger, whose role I enjoyed thoroughly. But, Zellweger cannot carry this farce on her own, unfortunately. When I realized the character actions were doomed by poor writing and I began shaking my head in annoyance at the juvenile antics, I realized it's a story that isn't directed at a mature audience. As far as I'm concerned, What/If doesn't even qualify as good background noise... Meh...

Bordertown is truly superb, although not without its faults. Is it for everyone? No... If you're an American that requires action at every turn or something mindless that requires little effort to understand, you probably won't enjoy this. After watching the first two seasons, I'm hooked, for the writers have backed their production of this program with intelligence, something Hollywood has lacked the vast majority of the time for a number of years. "Deadpan"? "Boring"? Only for those that cannot grasp cultural differences. No, it is not perfect (my girlfriend is Russian and says that Lena's accent is overkill, in a similar vein to those that attempt to mimic my native Texas accent with hideous results) but the overall result is still leaps and bounds above anything that any writer in the US can produce. I'm anxious for the third season to be released! As for the English overdubbing that began with Season Two when released on Netflix, I, too, made the mistake of listening to the voiceover work for all of about ten minutes before reverting back to English subtitles. No, the subtitles are not perfect but at least one gets the true sense of emotion from the script's actors instead of listening to a deadpan reading of the translation.

Mindhunter is an excellent period-based show that I've enjoyed immensely but it's not without its occasional flaws. For example, the term "unsub" was never used during the period (nor did I ever hear or speak the term years later in the 90s while employed in law enforcement... "Unsub" is a term created by Hollywood only, where writers are frequently out of touch with reality). "Unsub" has no place being used in a program based in the 1980s. Cordless drills in the 1980s? Not impossible but highly unlikely (they were probably more rare than the bag phones in the latter part of the decade). Sure, there are a few discrepancies here and there but, overall, the storyline sets it apart from the slew of cookie-cutter crime shows that are well beyond the realm of believability.

Proof-positive that the dumbing-down of society in the United States is working! Willis must be rather desperate, turning in a half-hearted performance. The remainder of the cast never should have quit their day jobs, though they weren't provided with much by the writers. Megan Leonard was especially bad... Wouldn't treatment be the first thing to come to mind instead of asking a lot of irrelevant questions about the unconscious, bleeding stranger on the couch? She never removed the gag after all were "saved" for the Lifetime-Movie-Moment, so perhaps she should have spared the viewers by wearing it for the entire movie. Suspension of belief is one thing but when Hollywood slaps its audience repeatedly with such garbage as this, it ceases to be even a mindless view.

This is a movie for the juveniles, for it simply lacks any depth whatsoever. The plot drags and the story is twice as long as necessary which only adds to the torture of viewing this from beginning to end. In a nutshell, this effort was a waste of time and talent.

Proof that Netflix has been instrumental in the dumbing-down of US entertainment... I tried to like this and made it all the way to the second-to-last episode before finally giving up. It's mediocre, indeed, and proof that Hollywood only knows one formula per genre. It honestly hurt to watch this... smh

Always one of my favorites and watching Hepburn and Peck's chemistry and antics always puts a smile on my face. They and Albert will always be missed.