casey luksch

it sucked. nice try making this badly edited, decently acted pre renaissance yarn seem almost like a medieval high school play. poorly directed and illogically staged. dont get me started on the woke DEI casting ... only bright spot was the hot red headed princess. otherwise not even a lesson on making the crossbow...what a jip.

having never read any of the comics ,therefore im no expert on F4 for sure. but after seeing the other entries, i thought clever use of retro pseudo modernistic 50s Americanism for the setting. but i was struck unfavorably by how lazy the plot line wavered between 50s sentimentality and 2025 snarky banter. always a bad historical and irritable mix. predictable is not even an issue, we've seen this formula time and again and we go with it. obviousness didnt help nor kill the plot, for if you missed 10 minutes of the movie, you didnt miss much by way of memoriam. effects, which were for the most part, were solid even under the glitzy foundational contrivances. galactus was the coolest part of the mundane plotline, with the Herald being a strong modern woman pulling on motherly sensibilities in an odd shadowing of a mother and her cub vibe. we know every line of dialogue, at least this rookie did, which opens the door for a sequel , and with doom, that is promising. I suppose, overall decent waste of your time, but do not pretend to be wowed.

campy , teenage dialogue and bad acting baked in a dystopian shit hole casserole. if there werent decent artwork, id have thought this was the worst junk ive ever seen. the sweeping vistas are ponderous, but the storyline has more holes than a stinky sock. producing this kind of retro-bad fantasy schlock, has set back expectations for future investment since the B movies of the 50's. this movie makes the worst of the resident evil fantasy movies look like Oscar material.

delightful performances but reality is cut short of spontaneous snippets of time. complex moments of historical change is lighting up another cigarette. the script was as secretive as the portrayal of bobs upbringing which was a central focus of his lack of sustainable relations with his women play toys. mysterious and lore-ish, i couldnt make up my mind whether he was a genius or just an asshole incapable of intimacy. personally, if as much effort was put into the lyrics, was put into the craft of the movie, i could have just put the album on and sang along. i dont have any of his records so, i guess the 5 or so memorable songs was good enough to be in a book of poetry just not a indulgent movie about people watching.

predictable without seeing the original. mood and editing were scripted with thought to the protagonists intentions , but leaving a bit open for subterfuge in conclusion. cia operative given a pass for being a field employee kind of skimmed iver any kind of believable relationship..other than to expect a sequel.

funniest thing in the whole movie was "we in the bidness" quote. which is really not saying much since it only got puff of a chuckle. DeNiro used to captivate every scene he was in. this movie showed how bad acting can effect an actors legacy. scriptwriting and flat and forced dialogue can be funny, but even campy laughs are deadwood in this debacle. when you stop to see how much time is Left on the dvd several times, you know its time to pity the time you lost from your life watching this movie

not even the plot line could save this movie, which was trite and predictable. dialogue seemed down to earth at times, but the comedic undertones were forced and problematic, especially listening to the annoying banter from the witness character. hard to even check for the acting going on while saying to yourself i wish that blathering idiot would just shut the hell up! campy effects, situational action was illogical and the punch lines were late in every instance. if not for the director and big time names in this schlock, id be embarrassed to keep my name in the credits...

i couldnt get past how i loved the artistic look of the show to think about storyline, the lack of police or the the fantastic makeup on Colin. however all of that was aligned so well i to the character development and backstory that the result was satisfying. spoiler.. not pleased with the end shot that shows the expected spotlight with an L where a bat should be, howe er the acting and editing made up for it.

dialogue was forced and manipulated towards a black oppressed narrative. the token white characters were given the task of playing a role where the character was part of a system based on unfairness. to be good, righteous and neutral is considered to be oppressive. A very cerebral approach to self doubt in a super hero, but of course that being an unjust society almost not worth saving because of a greed based racist social norm. the bad guy even calling himself "the good guy" was almost enough to turn the BET channel i was looking at, to 70s exploitation channel only to find the same snarky indignation and bad acting in those laughable do gooders. im mean comic heroes are supposed to ham it up, but at least you knew in the comic, it was for a better good. the pandering and subtle digs at societies faults are one thing, but wiping the floor and finding the same crap fed to us by BLM keeps the divide wide open and my life not any richer.

herds of extinct water buffalo, giant male beastly lions living in the Russian outback, a mysterious ancient Africanized tribal potion never explained, a brother who did not take such a potion but who developed a chameleon trait that sat dormant until conveniently useful, all bottled with a lawyer who disappears at the end should tell you the writing was shot gun blast leaky. no amount of ok acting can salvage weak cgi and no script . giving it a 2 is generous.